Xinjiang's Makit county: Desert turns green

During the spring and autumn tree-planting season, an average of 23,000 people and governmental officials take part in the tree-planting each day. More importantly, they do this voluntarily.

"We failed many times in the first years because of water shortage and other limitations," Amat Mamat, the secretary of desertification department of the county's forestry bureau said. "But we kept trying and invited experts to teach us, finally we made it."