In the summer season, with a faint morning light, located in the ecological restoration area of Lake Aisiman on the northern edge of the Taklamakan Desert, the Aksu Military Sub district in Xinjiang is organizing militia to plant shuttle seedlings between rows of solar photovoltaic panels. On weekdays, it is the militia border guard Abulizi Adili who is responsible for managing and maintaining this green space. Our place is an important battlefield for the siege on the edge of the Taklamakan Desert, "said Abulizi Adili. Abulizi Adili opened the smart bracelet and adjusted it to "desertification monitoring mode". The data below the electronic screen showed a vegetation coverage rate of 37.6%. Choose one thing, for the rest of your life. In the "Battle Sand" diary carried by Abulizi Adili, there is a set of images: in a black and white photo, the father is trekking through the sand dunes carrying saplings; More than 20 years ago, I took a colorful photo while planting red willows. The sapling in my hand is as thin as chopsticks; The latest one is a close-up photo of my son operating a drone, and you can see continuous green on the control screen... "My father said that desertification control is like Yu Gong moving mountains, it takes a long time to work hard, and you must persevere." Recalling his father's dying instructions, tears welled up in the eyes of Abulizi Adili's eyes. The story of Abulizi Adili's family's three generations of desertification control is a vivid portrayal of the military and civilians in Aksu overcoming the desert, restoring the ecology, and greening their homeland. Aksu is located on the northern edge of the Taklamakan Desert, known as the 'Sea of Death'. The sandstorms are raging here, and the ecological environment was once extremely fragile. A sandstorm buried half of my adobe house, "recalled Maimaiti Reheman, a herdsman from Shaya County. From a record in local chronicles, one can feel the dilemma brought by desertification: in 1985, residents of Aksu spent nearly a quarter of their time living in sandstorms, and the desert approached the city at a speed of 5 meters per year, only 6 kilometers away from the city. In 1986, the leadership team of the Aksu Prefectural Committee decided to implement a desert greening project in Kekeya, the largest source of sandstorms in Aksu. The Aksu Military Sub district actively responded to the call and mobilized officers and soldiers to form a "Party Member Assault Team", starting a battle against the desert in the midst of sandstorms. "Kekeya has deposited thousands of years of loess, which is as hard as a rock under the effect of salt and alkali. One shovel goes down and sparks appear, and the jaws of the palms are cracked. Only half a day, three shovel are worn out..." At the Kekeya Memorial Hall, the narrator told the reporter the story of the first batch of sand control officers and soldiers fighting with the saline and alkaline land. She said that in those days, officers and soldiers were digging hard with shovel or chiseling with pickaxes under such bad conditions, just "chiseling" a piece of green on the Gobi Desert. During the process of sand control and afforestation, officers and soldiers gradually explored sand control and greening methods such as "trenching and alkali pressing+winter irrigation to maintain moisture", greatly improving the survival rate of seedlings. They also continuously improve the efficiency of desertification control and afforestation by using unmanned aerial vehicle formations to sow grass seeds, 5G sensors to monitor soil moisture, and intelligent irrigation systems to automatically adjust water and fertilizer ratios. After years of relay battles, the forest coverage rate of Kekeya has reached 40.3%, and 1.15 million acres of forest have prevented the northward invasion of the desert. 23000 herders who were forced to migrate have returned to their homeland. With the gradual improvement of the ecological environment, the military and civilian areas of Aksu have begun to explore the forest cultivation model, calling on the masses to intercropping economic forests such as apples and walnuts in drought resistant, salt resistant, and adaptable windbreak forests such as Haloxylon ammodendron and Salix matsudana, in order to transform ecological benefits into economic benefits and broaden the channels for the masses to increase income and become prosperous. A trial planting operation quietly unfolded on this land. Military division officers and soldiers helped the masses build anti-seepage channels and level orchards. Maimaiti Yiming, a fruit farmer from Wensu County, was the "first person to eat crabs": "I planted 10 acres of apples in the shuttle forest. Due to the large temperature difference between day and night on the sandy land, sufficient sunlight, and sufficient accumulation of sugar in the fruits, the purchase price per kilogram was 3 yuan higher than that of apples grown on ordinary land when hanging. Later, under the guidance of the militia backbone, I planted Cistanche deserticola under the roots of the shuttle forest, earning more than 1000 yuan per acre!" "Look, you have to cut it diagonally to expose the cambium before you can connect it..." In the Aheya Photovoltaic Industrial Park, continuous photovoltaic panels are laid out, forming a blue ocean. Under a row of photovoltaic panels, militia member Sepura Alimujiang is teaching his fellow villagers how to inoculate with Cistanche deserticola. As the reporter approached, Sepula Alimujiang enthusiastically introduced, "Look, photovoltaic panels continuously convert solar energy into electricity. Sand plants such as Haloxylon ammodendron can also be planted under the photovoltaic panels, and Cistanche deserticola can be grafted, achieving a win-win situation for both economic and environmental benefits. We insist on balancing 'forestry' and 'agriculture', and through planting models such as' photovoltaic panels+', we have driven an average annual income increase of 30000 yuan for 1200 border residents. ”The leaders of the Aksu Military Sub district introduced that currently, Aksu produces 12000 tons of Cistanche deserticola and 5 million tons of seabuckthorn annually, with a total output value of more than 58 million yuan in the sand industry. From sand prevention and control to sand use, Aksu has achieved the goal of turning sand into gold through the development of characteristic sand industries. In front of the sand table of the "Implementation Plan for the 'Three North' Project in Xinjiang" at the Aisiman Lake Observation Deck, the overall planning designer Zhang Wei used a laser pen to outline a new vision for future development to reporters: "This is a 'wind solar hydrogen storage integration' town, where photovoltaic panels are used for power supply and hydrogen energy vehicles patrol; this is a deep processing base for traditional Chinese medicine, extending the industrial chain of traditional Chinese medicine planting in the forest... We not only want the desert to grow plants, but also give it hope for sustainable development