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American teacher takes jar of sand as symbol of shared ground in forest he helped grow in China_我的网站

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一 | 当前我省秋粮作物已进入产量形成关键期做好病虫监测防控全力保障秋粮生产日报讯（记者郝东伟）当前省秋粮作物已进入产量形成关键期，同时也是病虫害防控的关键阶段。

Ronald Sakolsky fills a jar with sand from the Mu Us Desert in Inner Mongolia, planning to bring it back to the US, on August 24, 2026. Photo: Lin Xiaoyi
On Monday afternoon, Ronald Sakolsky, an American teacher, set foot once again on the soil of the Mu Us Desert, in the Uxin Banner of Ordos, North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. He first came here in 2000. Back then, the land was little more than drifting sand. Today, it is green with trees – a transformation driven by decades of local effort.
He stood within Sakolsky Forest, a woodland formally named to honor his early donation toward local ecological restoration. There, he carried out a plan he had held long before this trip: filling a jar with sand from the desert to bring home to the US.
More than two decades ago, sand was the one thing this place had in abundance. In 1999, when Sakolsky arrived in China as a participant in a bilateral teacher exchange program, he was moved by the tireless efforts of Chinese desert fighter Yin Yuzhen and her husband to curb desertification in the Mu Us Desert. He raised $5,000 – equivalent in 1999 to three years of income for Yin’s entire family – to fund their local tree-planting initiative.
The young saplings bought with that donation have since matured into more than 50,000 full-grown trees, transforming the once desolate, sandy wasteland into a thriving green landscape.
When Sakolsky met Yin at the airport on Sunday, 26 years after his first visit to Inner Mongolia, he joked that he could not take a tree from the Mu Us Desert, but he could slip some sand into his shoes and carry a piece of the land back with him. Now, he had found exactly the sand he wanted – not just any sand, but from a place where persistence had turned desert into life, and where his own name had become part of that story.
“Promise is a promise,” he said. “Ms. Yin made a promise, and she fulfilled it.”
For Sakolsky, the sand is not just dirt. It is a metaphor, a bridge, a shared ground. He plans to tell his grandchildren what it means. “It’s not just a piece of sand in the jar,” he said. “It’s a jar of love.”
He used the jar of sand to symbolize that America and China share a relationship rooted in the same soil. He shook the jar, holding its two ends as if they were the two countries, and said that it shows we’re all on the same planet.
There is an old American joke, he noted, that if you dig a hole deep enough, you will eventually reach China. “We’re all on the same planet,” he said.
Earlier that day, while visiting Yin’s home, he spoke about the need for Americans and Chinese to see each other as family. “All Americans should understand that Chinese people and Americans can be family,” he said. “We can transcend differences if we focus on our common ground. We all love our countries, and we all value loyalty and respect – these are the shared virtues we hold dear.”
As for the sand he collected, Sakolsky said he would treat it as a treasure, alongside all his other precious keepsakes from China. He expects to display it in his living room – a daily reminder of the forest that carries his name and the people who made it grow.
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二 | 近日，全省秋粮作物重大病虫防控关键技术培训在辛集市举行。本次培训分析了当前及下一阶段秋粮作物重大病虫害发生形势，讲解了病虫综合防控技术，全力做好秋粮病虫监测防控工作。

三 | 受前期台风影响，玉米南方锈病病原菌已入侵省，目前已在多个县域检测到菌源。

四 | 由于当前气温较高，尚未满足病害显症条件，病原菌仍处于潜伏期，未来发病风险较高。同时，玉米螟、棉铃虫、桃蛀螟等害虫虫量已开始攀升，当前防控工作已进入关键节点。

五 | “各地要紧盯重大病虫风险，防治关口前移，最大限度降低危害损失，为奋力夺取秋粮丰产丰收奠定坚实基础。

六 | ”省农业农村厅相关负责人介绍，全省上下深入推进“奋战100天强田管抗灾害夺秋粮丰收行动”，抓实抓细重大病虫监测防控工作，全力保障秋粮生产安全。

七 | 在加强监测预警方面，各地将密切关注台风、降雨等天气变化，扩大田间调查范围、加密调查频次，采用人工调查结合智能监测设备、PCR菌源早期检测技术的方式开展监测，准确掌握病虫发生动态，及时发布风险预警，为科学防控提供有力支撑。

八 | 结合重大病虫发生危害特点，省将抢抓防治关键窗口期，落实科学高效的防控措施。聚焦玉米南方锈病、穗虫、穗病开展有效防治，推广“一喷多促”技术，兼顾病虫防控、植株健壮、促进籽粒灌浆等多重增产稳产效果。坚持统防统治与群防群治相结合，依托专业化服务组织、合作社、种植大户等开展集中连片作业，提升作业效率与防控效果。对分散农户做好宣传引导，实现应防尽防。备足杀虫剂、杀菌剂、叶面肥及施药机械等相关物资，一旦监测到病虫重发风险，迅速采取应急防控措施，严防局部危害扩散为区域性重大灾害。同时，全省各级农业农村部门将组织技术骨干下沉一线，巡回开展技术指导，推动防控技术措施落地见效。