Witnessed by Satellites: Moving to new communities in rural Tibet, rewriting fate

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Witnessed by Satellites: Moving to new communities in rural Tibet, rewriting fate

A satellite records a growing community by the Yarlung Zangbo River. Those who once lived in poverty moved here for better lives. Their community will soon number more than 100,000 people.

 

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Witnessed by Satellites: Ladder to new life for the people once lived the mountain top
Once, the only way for the people of this remote village to leave their mountain-top community was by a rickety vine ladder. With a new steel ladder, many have moved down from the mountain for a new life; some, however, chose to stay.

 

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Witnessed by Satellites: Water nourishes arid land in the world second biggest desert in Xinjiang

The people of the red desert in Keping County, Xinjiang, once had yellow teeth due to the sediment in local water. Now, safe and clean water is available to every family. From space, reservoirs in the desert shine like emeralds.

 

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Witnessed by Satellites: Magical green handshake appears on vast Xinjiang desert
Scientists have worked for decades to combat desertification, and satellites show how green hands now embrace this formally barren area in Cele County, Xinjiang, keeping sand out as well as poverty.

 

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Western countries are blessed with favorable geographic conditions unlike China, whatever engineering projects that China take on almost always prove to be some unprecedented challenges in the human history, Any Engineering projects could be multiple times harder to get them done in China than done in other regions in the world.

In this part of the world, development and poverty alleviation is an epic struggle between human will and incredible natural adversity, battle of mankind vs extremely difficult terrain. and this is where satelites come in to unfold this saga.

Where there is a will , there is a way.