1    , young people in China are deeply concerned for the well-being of their young friends across the world and are trying to deliver messages of love and care in various ways.

    2    ,a new program was recently launched by the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation, which has collected 85 letters written by students from 17 middle schools in Beijing to young people in pandemic-stricken countries such as Japan，Pakistan and Greece.    3    and have been made into a series of short videos titled A Letter to Friends.

    4    by the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation and China Public Diplomacy Association, and is supported by the China Soong Ching Ling Science & Culture Center for Young People.    5    in the near future to send support and blessings to more countries.

For generations, Babusha,     1     is on the southern edge of the Tengger Desert, was troubled by sandstorms that frequently buried farmland, often leaving nothing to harvest.

Today, the desert’s southward spread has been stopped thanks to a green belt ten kilometers in     2     (long) and eight kilometers in width,     3     (plant) by Guo Wangang and his colleagues.

Guo’s father was one of the six men who first began planting trees in Babusha     4     (prevent) their land from being buried in 1981. When he     5     (force) to stop in 1983 due to poor health, Guo quit his job in the city and followed in his father’s rootsteps because he didn’t want to see the trees die. A deadly sandstorm in 1993 which claimed 23 students’     6     (life) firmed his resolve, turning Guo into     7     stubborn soldier, unwilling to give up the fight. “I asked     8     (I) that if we couldn’t protect our farmland or our children, how were we supposed to keep going?” Guo recalled. “That’s when I made up my mind to devote my life to this fight.”

Year after year, Guo and his colleagues have continued to plant trees each spring and fall,     9     (watch) out for fire and pruning (修剪) them in the winter. The vegetation coverage rate in Babusha has increased     10     less than 3 percent to 70 percent and the desert no longer moves further south.