与时间之沙抗争

Fighting the sands of time

Wang Youde remembers a time when his hometown in Lingwu city,Northwest China's NingxiaHui Autonomous Region,was covered in sand.The expansion of the desert occupied the farmlands,houses and hometown,and tens of thousands of people had to move away.'This drove him to fightagainst desertification,and“regain the land robbed by the desert”.