The Bureau of Landscape in the city of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia held its annual spring landscaping and tree-planting activity, on Feb 22, with landscapers planting trees in Halaqin Park and Chilechuan Park and along several main roads.
The people of Baotou, Inner Mongolia autonomous region have been decorating lanterns, cooking glutinous rice balls, and arranging yangko dances and guessing games to celebrate the Lantern Festival,symbolizes unity and perfection and is an important part of Spring Festival, and the official end of the long holiday.
For the Lantern Festival which falls on Feb 22 this year, the residents of the city of Hohhot, came out on the evening before to Dazhao Square and old Saishang Street and Guanyin Temple to enjoy the huge display of lanterns.
The agriculture and animal husbandry bureau of Inner Mongolia has reported on Feb 17, that their grassland vegetation amounted to 43.8 percent last year, for a 6.7 percent increase over the 2010 figure, and 13.8 percent more than for 2000, and a marked improvement in three ecological problems – the sandy wasteland, the deterioration of the area, and the salinization.
The Inner Mongolia autonomous region reports completing its afforestation task of 489.3 million hectares for last year, or 110 percent of its original goal, and a year-on-year increase of 9.2 percent.
The city of Baotou, Inner Mongolia autonomout region has announced plans to spend 19 billion yuan($2.9 billion) on key animal and plant projects to modernize and develop the sector, reports Baotou Daily on Feb 18.
Just after the Spring Festival holiday ended, on Feb 18, the Inner Mongolia border corps' Hinggan League troop began training in a border area in very cold weather but in good spirits.
Railway police in the city of Baotou, Inner Mongolia organized an armed police anti-terrorist, anti-riot drill in the city's railway station, on Feb 18, to ensure the security of passengers during the Spring Festival travel.
A bullet train departed Hohhot East Railway Station for Ulanqab marking the start of high-speed rail services using Inner Mongolia’s first newly-laid high-speed railway on Aug 3.
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the autonomous region, during which various celebrations are planned to showcase its prosperity and ethnic diversity.
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