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Yang Yang brings 1st gold medal to China in Salt Lake Olympics

SALT LAKE CITY, United States - Yang Yang (L) and Wang Chunlu hold up a Chinese flag at the Salt Lake Ice Center on Feb. 16 after wining the gold and bronze medals, respectively, in the women's 500 meters short track speed skating.

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(InTibet)CHINA-TIBET-YARLUNG ZANGBO RIVER-MIDDLE REACHES-AFFORESTATION (CN)

(220606) -- LHASA, June 6, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on May 27, 2022 shows the nursery run by Penjig in Zhanang County, Shannan City of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, once stretches of barren land with sandstorms raging in spring and winter, now see a sea of green trees all over the place. With unwavering endeavors of sand control and ecology restoration, more than 45 million trees have been planted over the past four decades in Shannan, an area the Yarlung Zangbo River runs through. In 1967, Li Chunlu, an agricultural school graduate from northwest China's Gansu Province, was assigned to work in Shannan. On his way to work, the 24-year-old was inundated by the yellow dust in the air. Li thought, at the time, how good it would be if trees could be planted here. An ambition of planting trees was bred in Li Chunlu as a boy named Penjig from a village by the Yarlung Zangbo River planted a few willow branches on the hillside where he

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(InTibet)CHINA-TIBET-YARLUNG ZANGBO RIVER-MIDDLE REACHES-AFFORESTATION (CN)

(220606) -- LHASA, June 6, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Penjig checks the growth of a sapling at the afforestation area by the Yarlung Zangbo River in Zhanang County, Shannan City of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, May 26, 2022. The middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, once stretches of barren land with sandstorms raging in spring and winter, now see a sea of green trees all over the place. With unwavering endeavors of sand control and ecology restoration, more than 45 million trees have been planted over the past four decades in Shannan, an area the Yarlung Zangbo River runs through. In 1967, Li Chunlu, an agricultural school graduate from northwest China's Gansu Province, was assigned to work in Shannan. On his way to work, the 24-year-old was inundated by the yellow dust in the air. Li thought, at the time, how good it would be if trees could be planted here. An ambition of planting trees was bred in Li Chunlu as a boy named Penjig from a village by the Yarlung Zangbo River planted a few w

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(InTibet)CHINA-TIBET-YARLUNG ZANGBO RIVER-MIDDLE REACHES-AFFORESTATION (CN)

(220606) -- LHASA, June 6, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Penjig checks the growth of saplings at the afforestation area by the Yarlung Zangbo River in Zhanang County, Shannan City of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, May 26, 2022. The middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, once stretches of barren land with sandstorms raging in spring and winter, now see a sea of green trees all over the place. With unwavering endeavors of sand control and ecology restoration, more than 45 million trees have been planted over the past four decades in Shannan, an area the Yarlung Zangbo River runs through. In 1967, Li Chunlu, an agricultural school graduate from northwest China's Gansu Province, was assigned to work in Shannan. On his way to work, the 24-year-old was inundated by the yellow dust in the air. Li thought, at the time, how good it would be if trees could be planted here. An ambition of planting trees was bred in Li Chunlu as a boy named Penjig from a village by the Yarlung Zangbo River planted a few wi

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(InTibet)CHINA-TIBET-YARLUNG ZANGBO RIVER-MIDDLE REACHES-AFFORESTATION (CN)

(220606) -- LHASA, June 6, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on May 26, 2022 shows the afforestation area by the Yarlung Zangbo River in Shannan City of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, once stretches of barren land with sandstorms raging in spring and winter, now see a sea of green trees all over the place. With unwavering endeavors of sand control and ecology restoration, more than 45 million trees have been planted over the past four decades in Shannan, an area the Yarlung Zangbo River runs through. In 1967, Li Chunlu, an agricultural school graduate from northwest China's Gansu Province, was assigned to work in Shannan. On his way to work, the 24-year-old was inundated by the yellow dust in the air. Li thought, at the time, how good it would be if trees could be planted here. An ambition of planting trees was bred in Li Chunlu as a boy named Penjig from a village by the Yarlung Zangbo River planted a few willow branches on the hillside

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(InTibet)CHINA-TIBET-YARLUNG ZANGBO RIVER-MIDDLE REACHES-AFFORESTATION (CN)

(220606) -- LHASA, June 6, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Retired Li Chunlu views old photos at home in Chengdu City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 3, 2022. The middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, once stretches of barren land with sandstorms raging in spring and winter, now see a sea of green trees all over the place. With unwavering endeavors of sand control and ecology restoration, more than 45 million trees have been planted over the past four decades in Shannan, an area the Yarlung Zangbo River runs through. In 1967, Li Chunlu, an agricultural school graduate from northwest China's Gansu Province, was assigned to work in Shannan. On his way to work, the 24-year-old was inundated by the yellow dust in the air. Li thought, at the time, how good it would be if trees could be planted here. An ambition of planting trees was bred in Li Chunlu as a boy named Penjig from a village by the Yarlung Zangbo River planted a few willow branches on the hillside where he grazed his sheep. The willow branc

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(InTibet)CHINA-TIBET-YARLUNG ZANGBO RIVER-MIDDLE REACHES-AFFORESTATION (CN)

(220606) -- LHASA, June 6, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on May 27, 2022 shows the Yarlung Zangbo River flowing past Shannan City of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, once stretches of barren land with sandstorms raging in spring and winter, now see a sea of green trees all over the place. With unwavering endeavors of sand control and ecology restoration, more than 45 million trees have been planted over the past four decades in Shannan, an area the Yarlung Zangbo River runs through. In 1967, Li Chunlu, an agricultural school graduate from northwest China's Gansu Province, was assigned to work in Shannan. On his way to work, the 24-year-old was inundated by the yellow dust in the air. Li thought, at the time, how good it would be if trees could be planted here. An ambition of planting trees was bred in Li Chunlu as a boy named Penjig from a village by the Yarlung Zangbo River planted a few willow branches on the hillside where he grazed

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(InTibet)CHINA-TIBET-YARLUNG ZANGBO RIVER-MIDDLE REACHES-AFFORESTATION (CN)

(220606) -- LHASA, June 6, 2022 (Xinhua) -- File photo taken on July 20, 2021 shows Penjig checking saplings at his nursery in Zhanang County, Shannan City of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, once stretches of barren land with sandstorms raging in spring and winter, now see a sea of green trees all over the place. With unwavering endeavors of sand control and ecology restoration, more than 45 million trees have been planted over the past four decades in Shannan, an area the Yarlung Zangbo River runs through. In 1967, Li Chunlu, an agricultural school graduate from northwest China's Gansu Province, was assigned to work in Shannan. On his way to work, the 24-year-old was inundated by the yellow dust in the air. Li thought, at the time, how good it would be if trees could be planted here. An ambition of planting trees was bred in Li Chunlu as a boy named Penjig from a village by the Yarlung Zangbo River planted a few willow branches on the hill

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(InTibet)CHINA-TIBET-YARLUNG ZANGBO RIVER-MIDDLE REACHES-AFFORESTATION (CN)

(220606) -- LHASA, June 6, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on May 27, 2022 shows the riverside of the Yarlung Zangbo River lush with green trees in Shannan City of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, once stretches of barren land with sandstorms raging in spring and winter, now see a sea of green trees all over the place. With unwavering endeavors of sand control and ecology restoration, more than 45 million trees have been planted over the past four decades in Shannan, an area the Yarlung Zangbo River runs through. In 1967, Li Chunlu, an agricultural school graduate from northwest China's Gansu Province, was assigned to work in Shannan. On his way to work, the 24-year-old was inundated by the yellow dust in the air. Li thought, at the time, how good it would be if trees could be planted here. An ambition of planting trees was bred in Li Chunlu as a boy named Penjig from a village by the Yarlung Zangbo River planted a few willow branches on

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(InTibet)CHINA-TIBET-YARLUNG ZANGBO RIVER-MIDDLE REACHES-AFFORESTATION (CN)

(220606) -- LHASA, June 6, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Penjig (front) instructs workers in planting trees at the afforestation area by the Yarlung Zangbo River in Zhanang County, Shannan City of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, May 26, 2022. The middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, once stretches of barren land with sandstorms raging in spring and winter, now see a sea of green trees all over the place. With unwavering endeavors of sand control and ecology restoration, more than 45 million trees have been planted over the past four decades in Shannan, an area the Yarlung Zangbo River runs through. In 1967, Li Chunlu, an agricultural school graduate from northwest China's Gansu Province, was assigned to work in Shannan. On his way to work, the 24-year-old was inundated by the yellow dust in the air. Li thought, at the time, how good it would be if trees could be planted here. An ambition of planting trees was bred in Li Chunlu as a boy named Penjig from a village by the Yarlung Zangbo River pl

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(InTibet)CHINA-TIBET-YARLUNG ZANGBO RIVER-MIDDLE REACHES-AFFORESTATION (CN)

(220606) -- LHASA, June 6, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Penjig (R) plants trees with his old partner Toinzhub Cering (C) at the afforestation area by the Yarlung Zangbo River in Zhanang County, Shannan City of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, May 26, 2022. The middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, once stretches of barren land with sandstorms raging in spring and winter, now see a sea of green trees all over the place. With unwavering endeavors of sand control and ecology restoration, more than 45 million trees have been planted over the past four decades in Shannan, an area the Yarlung Zangbo River runs through. In 1967, Li Chunlu, an agricultural school graduate from northwest China's Gansu Province, was assigned to work in Shannan. On his way to work, the 24-year-old was inundated by the yellow dust in the air. Li thought, at the time, how good it would be if trees could be planted here. An ambition of planting trees was bred in Li Chunlu as a boy named Penjig from a village by the Yarlung Z

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Yang Yang brings 1st gold medal to China in Salt Lake Olympics

SALT LAKE CITY, United States - Yang Yang (L) and Wang Chunlu hold up a Chinese flag at the Salt Lake Ice Center on Feb. 16 after wining the gold and bronze medals, respectively, in the women's 500 meters short track speed skating.