Photo taken on March 13, 2023 shows a worker collects and digs cistanche with the joy of harvest on their faces. At present, 67,000 mu of cistanche planted at wind prevention and desertification control workstation in Qiemo County has entered the harvest season. It is reported that in order to vigorously develop the understory economy and promote the faster and better development of desertification control, the wind prevention and desertification control workstation in Qiemo County has developed the desert economy by planting "desert ginseng" cistanche in the Haloxylon ammodendron forest, and the income has been invested in the wind prevention and desertification control work again, so as to achieve a good cycle of forest cultivation. (Photo by Su Xin)

Photo taken on March 13, 2023 shows workers look at the cistanche with the joy of harvest on their faces at wind prevention and desertification control workstation in Qiemo County, Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang. (Photo by Su Xin)

Photo taken on March 13, 2023 shows a worker packs the cistanche with the joy of harvest on their faces at wind prevention and desertification control workstation in Qiemo County, Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang. (Photo by Su Xin)

Photo taken on March 13, 2023 shows workers dig the cistanche with the joy of harvest on their faces at wind prevention and desertification control workstation in Qiemo County, Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang. (Photo by Su Xin)

Photo taken on March 13, 2023 shows a worker packs and transports the cistanche with the joy of harvest on their faces at wind prevention and desertification control workstation in Qiemo County, Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang. (Photo by Su Xin)

Aerial photo taken on March 13, 2023 shows workers dig the cistanche with the joy of harvest on their faces at wind prevention and desertification control workstation in Qiemo County, Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, northwest China’s Xinjiang. (Photo by Su Xin)

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