Introduction: From a historical and philosophical perspective, this book tells readers the upturn of the environment in the Tarim basin. The author himself is a native-born Tarim person and has witnessed the cutoff of Tarim River as well as withered populus euphratica forest. But things have changed: luxuriant desert populous forest and flowing Tarim River are back. You can experience the love and sympathy as the author does from his concise and emotional writing.