Green on the Desert

On May 5, 1993, a severe sandstorm hit Shacheng County in northwest China. People here found that their homes were about to be engulfed by the desert and become the second Lop Nur. Wang Tianjian did not want his two sons Dongzi and Goudan to suffer in the desert anymore, so he took them to the city to go to school. When Dongzi grew up, he founded a business and eventually took root in Sidun Town, the forefront of sandstorms. He created an "ecological and industrialized desertification control" model and led the villagers to control desertification and become rich. Goudan pursued his literary dream and became a well-known online writer. He created the "Internet public welfare desertification control" model and advocated volunteers from all over the country to plant their own Haloxylon ammodendron in the desert. With the good policies of reform and opening up and their hard work, the brothers changed their destiny and guarded their homeland side by side. The work is adapted from the real experience of Ma Junhe, the "National Greening Worker Model". Taking the life trajectories of the Wang brothers as the warp and the spring tide of reform and opening up as the latitude, it profoundly interprets the development concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are mountains of gold and silver" through combating desertification and getting rich, watching over homes, conflicts between father and son, and brotherhood, and composes a hymn of the era in which deserts turn into oasis. This is not only an epic of desert control for two generations, but also a vivid footnote of rural revitalization in the new era, demonstrating the Chinese people's indomitable fighting spirit and eternal belief in protecting their homeland. The work won the 11th Dunhuang Literary Award of Gansu Province; the "Best IP Value Award" of the 3rd Realistic Essay Competition of Shanghai Qimao Chinese Network; was selected into the "Most IP Potential List" of the 2nd Yangtze River Online Literature of Jiangsu Province; was included and introduced in the "China Online Literature Yearbook (2023)"; the electronic version of the book was collected in Shanghai Pudong Library.