Former Commander of US Pacific Command, Admiral Harry Harris once referred to this as the "Great Wall of Sand" - a "nine-dash line" creating a protective ring and supply network around Chinese ...

On the edges of the desert, sand can smother crops ... when it will have formed an “unbreakable green Great Wall”, according to government plans. China boasts that the scheme has already ...

China has successfully encircled the Taklamakan Desert, the country’s largest and the world’s second-largest shifting desert, with a 1,900-mile (3,050-kilometer) green belt of vegetation and ...

By stopping sand from spreading and using solar power, it sets an example for similar projects in other dry areas, like Africa’s Great Green Wall or efforts in the Middle East. Growing useful ...