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China has manifested an extraordinary competence in the leadership of desertification control, and has achieved lots of significant results. The Khobqi International Desert Forum provides a platform for the world to exchange experience concerning afforestation and desertification control.
--Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary General of the United Nations
It's not easy planting trees in the desert. Once the trees are dead, they can never come back to life again. Thus,desertification control is also a kind of scientific management.The more scientific the methods are, the better the results will be. Wang Wenbiao has created many new technologies in terms of planting trees, and received better and better results. Maybe one day when we human beings do need to move to another planet, the manage experience applied in the Khobqi desert would be useful.
--Mo Yan, a well-known writer, and the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature
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The word "tough" became the heavy pressure on Wang Wenbiao.
Everything is hard in the beginning, while only action could bring progress. Wang Wenbiao set up a special road building team which came up with specific programs after investigation in the desert. However, financial calculation results put on his desk splashed cold water on him.
The road building would cost no less than 70 million yuan.
In the 1990s, the total assets of the Salt Works were only several hundred million yuan. With an annual income of only four to five million yuan, the company could hardly afford the cost. Wang Wenbiao became stressed. The products piled up in the factory, and the equipment were in a semi-shutdown state. A worker anxiously asked: "President Wang, what can we do?"
Stuck in the dilemma of building the road and the unaffordable cost,Wang Wenbiao decided to raise funds. He personally went to the financial institutions for loans.
"What? Building a road in the desert?" The President of the financial institutions couldn't believe their ears, "There would be no return. We can't bear the risk."
Banks certainly refused no matter what Wang Wenbiao said to them.MI his efforts were in vain.
Lying in the shabby hostel, Wang Wenbiao meditated with his eyes closed. After all ways of raising money were at a dead end, he thought of the government who could help him to raise funds from banks.
