December 6, 1985 (, Yi Chou October 25), the end of a project of the Three-North Shelterbelt System.

1985, Xinhua News Agency reported: Trans one of the Three-North Shelterbelt System in Northwest China, North China, Northeast, fighting for the past eight years, recently completed the expected target. (Lssjt.cn)
this project, not only for the world's largest anti-sandstorm, rule the water and soil bioengineering, green Great Wall, and lay a solid foundation, but also to create a rich experience for the construction of China's forestry.
the construction of the Three-North Shelterbelt Project in order to gradually form a green protection system in northern China, to eradicate the hazards of sandstorm and soil erosion, and create a good ecological environment for the development of the national economy. The first phase of the project since 1978, the State Council decided to launched so far, the three northern regions in 12 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government's 396 counties (banners), and create a variety of shelterbelts save area of ​​9080 mu, more than 100 million mu more than the scheduled task, accumulated from the founding to the plantation in 1977 than the region to save the area of ​​more than 1400 mu. Now, the Three North Miles sandstorm online and the Loess Plateau, more than 1.2 million acres of farmland shelterbelts protection; alleviate the shortage of firewood farmers in about half of the wood difficulties; one-third of the county agricultural ecological start to the virtuous circle transformation. According to the parties concerned to expert estimates, the benefits generated by one project a year now, valued at $ 20 billion.