Three irrigation pumping stations have been built along a 23km canal in the Hongsibao area. The Shapotou irrigation works, which will cost Ynl.3bn, are one of 10 key state projects in China’s western regions.]
2015 November 15, Emma Graham-Harrison, “The coal boom choking China”, in The Guardian[2], archived from the original on 05 June 2015[3]:
One reason for Beijing's newfound urgency in chipping away at that staggering level of emissions can be found in the dusty, unprepossessing town of Hongsibu.[…] The resettlement project is the most ambitious of its kind in China and perhaps the world. Officials see it as a triumph of government benevolence and engineering. “Its[sic] a miracle in poverty reduction, to take a piece of wasteland and transform it,” said Zheng Yaliang, Communist party secretary for Hongsibu. “Very few countries could do this.”
Villager Qiao Yingbo collects wine sample at a chateau in Hongsibu district of Wuzhong city, Northwest China’s Ningxia Hui autonomous region, Sept 8, 2018. Hongsibu district is one of China’s largest concentration areas for ecological immigrants.
Neat rows of new houses, leafy streets, and beaming faces—this picturesque bucolic scene that greeted us when we visited Hongde Village the in Hongsibu District, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwest China on June 15, 2020.
2020 September 24, Jocelyn Eikenburg, “Reporter's log: In Ningxia, internet powering a new oasis for poverty relief”, in China Daily[8], archived from the original on September 25, 2020, Opinion[9]:
Under the searing afternoon sunshine in Hongsibu of Wuzhong city, Ningxia Hui autonomous region, I crouched beside one of the hundreds of sage-green bushes in neat rows and ran my hand across the bright red goji berries, growing in a meandering string like Christmas lights tucked among the leaves.[…] Nor was I merely astonished that one of the locals told me the land beneath my feet, like much of Hongsibu, was once inhospitable, desertlike territory over 20 years ago.
2021, Oscar A. Gómez, “Population Movements and Human Society”, in Climate Change, Disaster Risks, and Human Security: Asian Experience and Perspectives[10], →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 207:
Tan (2017) undertook a survey in Hongsibu, central Ningxia, which is the largest single environmental resettlement area in China, receiving up to 170,000 people between 2001 and 2010. The author finds that climate impacts are repeated in the relocation area, inducing households to pursue a new relocation; besides, households with low socioeconomic status and those with more local kinship ties were less likely to plan for relocation.
2021, Liang Zhang et al., “Combating Desertification through the Wine Industry in Hongsibu, Ningxia”, in Sustainability[11], volume 13, number 10, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2:
Hongsibu is a district of the Wuzhong Municipality, Ningxia, extending over an area of 2767 km², and was a deserted area with an extremely undesirable ecological environment before the Hongsibu Development Zone was established in 1999. Land desertification has seriously affected the local ecological environment, socioeconomic development, and the quality of life here. To address this situation, large-scale desertification prevention works have been carried out in Hongsibu. Here, the key projects aim at returning farmlands to forests and at implementing economic forest construction [14]. Grapevines, as a type of economic forest, are typically representative of Hongsibu’s characteristic economic forest industry.
2021 March 30, “Huawei smart PV: injecting momentum into Xihaigu’s rural rejuvenation”, in Global Times[12], archived from the original on 31 March 2021[13]:
The main battlefield against poverty in Xihaigu, Hongde village in Hongsibu township, is the country's largest poverty alleviation relocation site for ecological migration, with a total of 7,206 residents migrating from 27 villages since 2012.
