Transforming a bare, arid sandy expanse into an immense green garden, can you? Yes, if the result is guaranteed by new technologies and an army of Chinese workers who are planting plants daily that can withstand high daytime temperatures and even stiff nights.

The Chinese government has in fact launched an important project that, from here on to the next 6 years, aims to transform the desert of the Tengger, located for the great part of the territory of the Alxa League, in the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia in China, in an immense green lawn.