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China Announces Completion of a 1,800-Mile Green Belt Around the World's Most-Hostile Desert

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The Green Great Wall began under Deng Xiaoping in 1978 with the “Three-North Shelterbelt’ project.

More than 30 million hectares ( 116,000 square miles ) of trees have been planted.

The project has increased forest cover in Xinjiang , the arid, far-west province of China , from 1% in 1949 , to 5% today .