Villagers efforts in reclaiming wasteland make barren area into forest park

Combo photo shows a view of the Dahei mountain in 1995 (top, copy photo) and the forest at the same place of Dahei mountain in Gasa Township, Jinghong City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Aug. 4, 2019 (bottom, photo by Qin Qing) . From 1993 when Zhang Linbo and other villagers rented Dahei mountain and started reclaiming the wastelands, four million trees were planted in the14,000 mu (about 933 hectares) of land making the once barren area a provincial-level forest park in 2016. (Xinhua)