The provincial people's government press office recently held a series of press releases on the theme “initiation of entrepreneurship with due diligence” to present the results of the pilot experience in the integrated use of reserve resources for arable land, such as salin lands。
As of the end of 2025, the east battalion, which was the first country-wide, province-wide, single saline complex, had been fully completed in 40 swathes and 75 pilot projects, with the addition of 348 million acres of arable land, the adaptation of 1159 million acres of saline-upgrading land, the completion of the target task and an annual increase in food production capacity of 73 million pounds. The deputy mayor of the east camp people's government, zhang li, introduced the idea that saline should be “refitted well” and, more importantly, “managed well”. The pilot project was completed with a four-to-five-year care period, with the core task of addressing the issue of re-salinization. The east battalion has adopted the concept of “building together” throughout the process, building up a system of care for “county general responsibility, town street supervision, village-level or new business owners”, and incorporating into the total investment estimates the cost of after-care for at least three years at the project design stage. Implementation of a mechanism for the allocation of care funds linked to care performance, with serious accountability for abandonment。
In the area of dynamic monitoring, the east battalion has succeeded in transforming “watching food” into “watching management” through the integrated use of the national centre for technology innovation in salted lands, through the establishment of an intelligent platform for real-time monitoring of soil salinization, salinity dynamics through the installation networked sensors, and the “visualization” of satellite and drone remote sensing. At the same time, the care period is considered to be a “continuous improvement period” and the improvement of soil quality through soil-raising measures such as slurry-backing, increased organic fertilizer, food and soybean rotations, and the acceleration of the construction of a national model area for the integrated use of salin。
