Karakorum Plateau

It is called "Life Forbidden Zone" due to high cold and lack of oxygen

Above 4500 meters above sea level

No flowers and trees

The mountains and plains are full of stones

In this place where no grass grows

Everyone relays and works together

Let the plateau border post

Gave birth to an abundance of greenery

Now, the officers and soldiers have eaten

Fresh vegetables grown by yourself

Pluck fresh tomatoes

Bring to patrolling comrades

Karakoram Plateau in May

Still frozen and snow wrapped

Shenxianwan outpost 5380 meters above sea level

The lowest temperature is more than minus ten degrees Celsius

Make a sound in the morning

Resounded throughout the mountain frontier defense company

The officers and soldiers of the cooking squad went to the vegetable shed early

Picking fresh tomatoes

Prepare to bring it to patrolling comrades

In this "small vegetable garden"

There are more and more varieties of vegetables, and the longer the better

For the highland border officers and soldiers

I can eat my own vegetables

It's really a happy thing

What the grower Chen Chao likes most

Is holding a guitar and singing songs in the greenhouse

"Go Border Defense"

He feels that the vegetables grown here

Seems to understand his singing

Border officers and soldiers left their homeland

Came to the plateau border

This green vegetable garden

Full of their longing for their hometown

And expectation of life on the border

At the end of last year, the smart "vegetable factory"

The border defense company at Shenxian Bay was built

From the previous sunshine greenhouse

The "Vegetable Factory" to the present

I wish to grow vegetables on the plateau

Become a reality step by step

And guarding the wish of the soldiers on the plateau

There are also a group of experts running around in the fields

Facing the wind and snow, crossing Daban

Guarding Karakorum’s Green Hope

Just these few days

A team of experts specializing in the promotion of new planting techniques

Driving through thick ice and snow

Towards Karakorum

When passing through the Xianggeladaban at an altitude of more than 5,800 meters

The team encountered heavy snow and could not move on

After more than an hour of emergency dredging of the snow pusher

The team was able to pass

"This is some of the process of growing vegetables

I hope it will be helpful for you to grow fresh vegetables"

Some experts are the first time

Walk up to a plateau more than 5,000 meters above sea level

They overcome the physical reaction

Carefully check the situation of vegetable planting and pests

And demonstrate soil planting techniques for officers and soldiers

Liu Shixiang from Army Service Academy

Every outpost

Will take some soil and water and put it in a bottle

"Go back for testing and analysis

See what nutrients the soil lacks

Give them better advice"

A bottle of water, a bottle of soil

Also full of emotions for the officers and soldiers on the plateau

The warriors said

Listened to the expert's explanation

More confident to grow vegetables better

Border defense on the plateau

Life is surrounded by mountains

Romance is replaced by loneliness

Youth is eroded by the wind and sand

But the officers and soldiers were never pessimistic, never bowed their heads

Always yearn for vitality and hope

The heart is full of boiling blood

And the affectionate love for the border

Like the most beautiful figure on the border line

Source: CCTV Military Comprehensive CCTV-7 "Military Report"