KUBUQI DESERT, China (AP) — For half a century, millions of workers have repeated a task across the deserts in northern China: inserting forea…
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Desert control worker Yin Yuzhen visits a desertification control site of the Engebei Ecological Area near Ordos in northern China's Inner Mongolia province on Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Visitors walk past a grass checkerboard on a sand dune that is part of desertification control efforts at the Engebei Ecological Area near Ordos in northern China's Inner Mongolia province on Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
Electric pylons are seen in the horizon along sand dunes near Ordos in northern China's Inner Mongolia province on Thursday, June 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A shed is surrounded by a sandy plain near Ordos in northern China's Inner Mongolia province on Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
A highway cuts through a desertification control site of the Engebei Ecological Area near Ordos in northern China's Inner Mongolia province on Friday, June 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)