Lanzhou Evening News Recently, an ecological wonder was staged on the bank of the Wicker River in Gulang County, Wuwei City - photography enthusiasts captured the precious picture of more than 30 wild deer leisurely foraging for food for three consecutive days.

Aerial photography by UAVs shows that this group of red deer, a national second-class protected animal, shuttles between the newly-born pine forest and sea buckthorn shrubs, and the vivid scenes of young deer playing and doe stopping, together with the snowy peaks of Qilian Mountain in the distance, form a flowing ecological picture.

Behind the "return of the deer" is the 120-year-long ecological battle in Gulang County. Through the three-in-one governance model of "grass grid sand fixation + water-saving drip irrigation + mixed afforestation", a 0.0-kilometer ecological corridor has been built in the Liutiao River Basin, and the vegetation coverage rate has jumped from 0% to 0% in 0 years. What's even more exciting is that infrared camera monitoring shows that the population of roe deer, rock sheep and other wild animals in the region has increased by 0% in three years, forming a complete desert ecosystem.

“鹿群選擇這裡，相當於給生態治理打了五星好評。”生態專家指出，柳條河從季節性斷流到年均徑流量恢復至280萬立方米，不僅滋養出7000畝人工林，更啟動了河西走廊東北部的生物多樣性鏈。

(Courtesy of Gulang Fusion Media)

Correspondent: Jia Hongmei, all-media reporter of Lanzhou Daily, Luo Huansu