Across China: North China's barren salt flats turn into rice fields, tourist attractions

NAMPA / Xinhua
2025-10-13
HOHHOT, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- October on the Ordos Plateau brings blue skies and a cool breeze that carries the scent of ripening rice in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Little more than five years ago the same wind only lifted white dust from a stretch of alkaline land so sterile that locals nicknamed it "earth's cancer." Today, standing atop a 26.5-meter-tall viewing tower in Xiaotanzi Village, Dalu Township of Zhungeer Banner,......
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