Villagers efforts in reclaiming wasteland make barren area into forest park

Zhang Linbo (front) and local villagers inspect the forest in Dahei Mountain at Gasa Township, Jinghong City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, July 31, 2019. From 1993 when Zhang Linbo and other villagers rented Dahei mountain and started reclaiming the wastelands, four million trees were planted in the14,000 mu (about 933 hectares) of land making the once barren area a provincial-level forest park in 2016. (Xinhua)