Lhasa, May 13th (Xinhua) – Nagqu, China's highest city with an average increase of over 4,500 meters, has seemed to be unreachable: it is no longer “the city without trees”.
This northern city in northern-Xizang has rewritten its ecological fate through decades of perseverance when it was a barren landscape in which even survival was a challenge and achieved a historical breakthrough in the update of high height.
Nagqu on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was officially completed as a city in May 2018. Its air air with oxygen content only half of those at sea level, and relentless winds have made it a place to swell as if it was ready to burst.
For many years, the lack of trees was a decisive feature, so that the award -winning female author Ma Lihua once wrote in her travel notes that “Nagqu Town has everything except a tree”.
Now parks and sidewalks over Nagqu with alpine pastures, spruce and seaside thorn are littered – proof of a quiet revolution. On the streets of the city and read “they promote greening at a high level, delete Nagqus treeless legacy”, announces this remarkable transformation.
“Nagqu has achieved China's highest height in tree planting,” said Cewang Rigzin, director of the city's forestry and grassland office. Since 2021, the city has been strongly investing in the afforestation, forest management and experimental planting in urban areas with high level.
“When I was a child, I could only see green trees on TV or in photos. Now we have successfully tested with a survival rate of over 80 percent tree planting in urban areas,” said Dainzin Puncog with the office, comes from Nagqu.
The cold plateau in the 1990s began at the high level of Nagqu at the high level of trees. Generations of local families and civil servants have put this achievement into this achievement and once converted an imaginative idea into reality. ■