Workers fasten sand grids near the Linhe-Ceke railway on March 6. [Photo/Xinhua]

Hundreds of staffers from Hohhot Railway Station worked on controlling desertification along the Linhe-Ceke railway in sparsely-populated deserts.

Sand-control measures focus on engineering and biological projects including building sand grids, digging sand ditches, planting drought-tolerant eremophyte, and embedding branches as sand-preventing barriers.

Sand-control grids along the railway help keep the desert in place. [Photo/Xinhua]

Trains shuttle from Linhe in Bayannur to Ceke in Alxa League, traveling across the Ulanbuh Desert and Badain Jaran Desert.

Since it began running in 2009, the Linhe-Ceke railway has suffered a lot from being buried by sand several times.

A photo taken on March 6 shows a bird's-eye view of sand-prevention projects. [Photo/Xinhua]

To handle the shifting desert, Hohhot Railway Station employed hundreds of workers to use scientific methods to control the distribution of sand along the route.