Zhanggutai Sand Forest Park is located in Zhanggutai Town, Zhangwu County. It is the only national sand forest park in Northeast China. It is an ecological landscape that cleverly combines desert wonders with artificial forests. Zhanggutai Sandy National Forest Park
Zhanggutai Sandy National Forest Park was founded in the 1950s, with a total area of ??11,341 hectares. The tens of thousands of man-made forests planted on a 100-meter sand layer can be called a miracle in the world. . Gusha science and education films "Green Dream", "Green Call", and TV series "Desert Romance" were filmed here. "The Great Green Wall" filmed by the Japanese Rock Glass Painting Production Company was included in the "World's Best" TV series. In the vast forest, you can enjoy sand lake bathing, forest bathing, sunbathing, pick red, yellow, and grass mushrooms, pick green agricultural products in the sand ecological park, taste local delicacies, and feel the natural wildness.
Yangximu Ranch is one of the three largest ranches outside Guanhai. Its products are directly supplied to Shengjing (now Shenyang). It is a geomantic treasure land with lush forests and grass. According to the "Tongkao of Qing Dynasty Documents": "There are long forests and abundant grass, and it is a good place for sleeping. There are nomadic groups, and there are many caves and caves. There are tens of millions of people breeding horses, camels, cattle and sheep every year, and their land is in Zhanggutai." .
In modern times, with the unreasonable and frequent economic activities of mankind, the ecology has been destroyed and the desert has moved southward. Zhanggutai is right on the forehead of the southward movement of the desert, and is the forehead of the Horqin Sandy Land. The formation of the Zhanggutai Sand Land is mainly caused by the erosion of the Horqin Sand Land in Inner Mongolia in the north and the impact flooding and wind accumulation of the Liu River. It is divided into flowing sand land, semi-fixed sand land and fixed sand land, of which mobile and semi-mobile sand land account for about 20%. , fixed sand accounts for about 80%, and the main component is quartz sand. Winds of 30 meters per second blow more than 240 times a year, and the four- to five-meter-high sand dunes move forward 3-4 meters every year. It is common for residents here to move every two or three years, and even "trachoma" has become a common problem. Endemic disease in Wu County. Zhanggutai Sandy National Forest Park
Although sandstorms are a killer of farmland, they are closely related to the lives of local people. Sweet potatoes, watermelons, millet, and small grains produced in the sandy land are famous green foods. The mattress bags for children here are filled with fine sand when they are born, which is equivalent to "diapers". The peanuts and melon seeds fried in fine sand are heated evenly and have a unique flavor.
There are three treasures in Zhanggutai: silica sand, peat, and pine saplings. Silica sand reserves reach 600 billion cubic meters and are widely used in casting, glass and glass products. Peat reserves exceed 100 million tons and can be used as biofertilizers, nutrient soil, industrial fuels, medical preservatives, food preservation, heavy metals, etc. Zhanggutai is also the United Nations nursery stock base. It has cultivated Pinus sylvestris seedlings for decades. Pinus sylvestris is an excellent tree species for windbreak and sand fixation and is exported to more than 10 provinces, cities and autonomous regions including Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi and Hebei. At the same time, Zhanggutai is the desert Hanhai closest to Shenyang city. It is a unique landscape for tourists to experience desolation, return to nature, participate in afforestation, and enhance their sense of social responsibility.