Elion turns the Kubuqi Desert into an oasis (1)

Hou Mazhuang is the director of Hangjin Lingfeng Professional Breeding Cooperative. He stands on the grassland reaching out his hand, and explains that we are standing on his 5000 mu (333 hectares) of contracted land. He bulldozed the sandy soil and transported fresh soil from the foothills to create the current farmland. A 600,000-yuan (U.S $88,000) irrigation system circles around a motor-pumped well to water over 200 mu (13 hectares) of land, at a speed too slow to be seen from afar. [Photo by Yang Jia]