Yin Yuzhen – The Woman who Totally Restored China’s Mu Us Desert

Surrounded by a desolate desert living in a mud cave, Yin Yuzhen took it herself to singlehandedly plant trees rehabilitating the desolate environment in the Uxin Banner of China’s Semi-Arid Western landscape. As an expert by no means coming from humble beginnings, she initially began her botany excursion as experimentation with various vegetation in her backyard in 1985 attempting to grow the various vegetation from the dry mineral lacking sand. The landscape was barren and desolate which led her to want to make something more out of this seemingly inhabitable land. Producing food for her family, she looked to fight the soil erosion present in her backyard, which quickly transformed into something entirely new. She began to plant trees and quickly learned how difficult it was during the process of trial-and-error. In time Yin found success and attracted the eye of neighbors around her, who quickly looked to her to rehabilitate their family plots in the effort of reforestation. As the years went on, she continued to plant her trees, deciding she would rather have her back broken than be bullied into submission by the sandy desert that had plagued her life for too long. (Wikipedia)