Photos Xinjiang's Tarim River diverted and channeled to nurture world's largest desert poplar forest

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world's largest desert poplar forest in the world second biggest desert, The Taklamakan desert

 

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world's largest desert poplar forest in the world second biggest desert, The Taklamakan desert

 

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The Taklamakan desert local villagers, the villagers living the heart of this huge desert who were unknown to the outside world until recently. Legend says they are the descendents of a small group of Genghis Khan's fighters who got lost in the Taklamakan hence settled down there.

 

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The villagers main livelihood is sheep herding and fishing, they make very delicious roast fish.

The Taklamakan desert rivers and lakes are teeming with fish

 

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The Taklamakan desert rivers and lakes are teeming with fish, which largely supports the villagers for hundreds of years

 

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多年浇灌后，152万亩变成1500万亩: After some years diversion water supply, the size of the poplar forest in the The Taklamakan desert had grown from 1.52 million Mu to 15 million Mu, a 10 times expansion.