Enge Bei eco-tourism area

Enge Bei eco-tourism area

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　　Enge Bei, Mongolian meaning peace, and good luck. Here is a lush history, beautiful place, once the region's economic and cultural center. Locally known as "Wuli Sha", that 50 years ago, five miles wide north and south. Due to human land reclamation farming and mining liquorice, resulting in desertification area is increasing year by year, with an average annual rate of 200 meters to the north and south edge of expansion, is now the North-South reached several tens of kilometers wide and actually it is more than four times the original. The belt in the 17 years between 1957-1974 years, there are five production teams of more than 100 households of farmers and herdsmen have been moved to foreign land. Engebeinan rely on Ordos Plateau, north of the Yellow River,Flash floods in this area also become a ferocious natural disasters. Every flood season, Kubuqi desert east honggou, due to Heyuan shorter than the big drop, flooding, soil erosion, exacerbated by the upper reaches of the plateau, through the middle of the desert and downstream are often caused by a large area of farmland and villages flooded, traffic block. Import of the Yellow River middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River was aggravated by hazards. According to statistics, Da Qi within each of the eight holes against an average of more than 100 million tons of sediment into the Yellow River dredging. 1978-1979 two-year cross-dam floods, overflow detention basin, in the Enge Bei to form a flat two-hole versus a pull-Pass, 100 meters wide, deep20 m of the ditch, thereby exacerbating the sand damage, flood damage, yellow damage, and to ditch the black depends on the lower reaches of commodity grain base directly affected by a serious threat, Enge Bei completely lost the living conditions of farmers and herdsmen. To 89 years in July Enge Bei established, the 300,000 acres of land, only 23 have been abandoned thatched cottages, has not seen signs of human habitation.