From seeding drones to solar farms: A look at China’s battle against desertification

Tehnologie

As of 2024, 53 per cent of China’s desertified land has been reforested or stabilised. ORDOS, Inner Mongolia: A glistening sea of solar panels stretches across 400km of sand dunes in the vast Kubuqi Desert, located on the edge of Ordos city in China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region. The massive project, dubbed the Solar Great Wall, is poised to become one of the largest solar power installations in the world once completed by 2030. According to local officials, the site will supply clean