Xinhua Headlines: From surviving to thriving amidst sands, Chinese city fortifies "green Great Wall"

Xinhua Headlines: From surviving to thriving amidst sands, Chinese city fortifies "green Great Wall"

(240616) -- YINCHUAN, June 16, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Students learn to pave straw checkerboards in the Tengger Desert in Zhongwei City, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, May 31, 2024. (Xinhua/Feng Kaihua)

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