Xinjiang Story: Tree plantation brings shade, respite to Gobi Desert city

by Xinhua writer Lu Yifan

URUMQI, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Li Mingjie, 51, vividly remembers one particular scene from his childhood.

As a kid, Li often bicycled to a reservoir on the outskirts of Bole, his home city in the Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bortala, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Standing on the edge of the reservoir, he would survey the landscape consisting of the vast Go