April is the perfect time for planting in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region. Inspired villagers in Miaomiaohu village held a desert vegetable planting match.
Rock sheep are under national second-class wild animal protection in China. In 1983, the Helan Mountain National Nature Reserve was established to house the animals.
Between January and February, the total output value of industries above designated size in Yinchuan city's industrial parks reached 12.927 billion yuan ($2.03 billion), representing an increase of 26.07 percent year-on-year.
In the first quarter of this year, 93 patents from five companies in Ningxia Hui autonomous region raised 228 million yuan ($35.78 million) through intellectual property pledge financing.
Tian Manchao, a photographer in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, has always had a profound connection to the Yellow River.
When villager Tian Yanhu arrived at his work site in the Ningdong Energy and Chemical Industry Base, as a fresh graduate almost two decades ago, he felt lost.
For the last five years, diners eager to try fusion cuisine in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui autonomous region, have had just the place to go.
Having spent 42 years in the desert in Northwest China's Ningxia, Wang Youde said he has devoted nearly two-thirds of his life to fighting desertification.