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The future is here | Where sand meets light, oases grow alongside

By Peng Yukai, Yuan Meng, Lei Zheqiong (People's Daily Online) 16:51, October 23, 2026

Deep in the Kubuqi Desert in Dalad Banner, Ordos, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, rows of solar panels now stretch across what was once drifting sand. Here, sunlight is turned into clean electricity, and the desert itself is beginning to change. The panels shade the ground, help retain moisture, and give vegetation a chance to return. This is more than a power project. It offers a glimpse of two futures at once: a future powered by clean energy, and a future where development and nature can move forward together. In China, that future is already taking shape — one panel, one patch of green, one desert at a time.

(Web editor: Peng Yukai, Wu Chengliang)

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