More desert reclaimed at Junggar Basin  

新疆准噶尔盆地东南缘生态治理出现转机

新疆奇台县经过10年时间的努力，在准噶尔盆地东南缘建起了一条横贯东西长65公里、南北宽3-5公里的大型防风固沙林带。随着林带内林木逐渐生长成熟，准噶尔盆地东南缘生态治理出现转机。

Qitai (CNS) -- After a decade of effort, a comprehensive shelterbelt has been built on the southeastern edge of the Junggar Basin, according to the Qitai County Bureau of Forestry in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on Monday.

The county has planted 49,300 hectares of forest and taken overall afforestation measures against 326,000 hectares of desert, the bureau said.

The tree belt has an east-west length of 65 kilometers and a north-south width of three to five kilometers, said the bureau.

The rate of forest coverage has increased to 7.45 percent, up from 5.83 percent in 2005, it added.