The desert is
barren land.
沙漠是贫瘠的土地.
Barren women are rejected by the tribesmen.
不孕的妇女被部落的男人遗弃。
Today it's pretty desolate,
barren and extremely hot.
如今那里很是荒凉，土地贫瘠，极其炎热。
No matter where it's barren, a dream is being bor。
不论是什么荒芜的地方，都有梦在诞生。
The power station has realized clean energy production on barren mountains, which is significant progress in improving land utilization and reducing environmental pollution.
该电站在荒山上实现了清洁能源生产，在提高土地利用率和减少环境污染方面取得了重大进展。
"Working among such inaccessible barren slopes and mountains is beyond words," Xiong said.
熊说：“在这样人迹罕至的荒坡荒山中工作是无法用语言表达的。”。
Its first solar energy investment in the country, the Adiyaman photovoltaic project, was built on top of a once barren mountain.
该公司在该国的第一个太阳能投资，阿迪亚曼光伏项目，建在一座曾经贫瘠的山顶上。
Once barren saline-alkali land has been metamorphosed into a golden landscape of rice fields in Cixi, a county-level city of Ningbo, Zhejiang province, thanks to the efforts of Charoen Pokphand Group (CP Group).
Much of the site in the London borough of Tower Hamlets has been barren and unused for many years.
The Qingdao site will bring plant life back to an area of land at the confluence of two rivers that is currently barren due to a buildup of mineral deposits.
Photovoltaic power generation not only saves energy and reduces carbon emissions, but also helps with soil and water conservation on barren hills and prevents the expansion of desertification, Tian added.
Today, they have turned lives around by gradually blanketing the township's barren mountain with income-generating plants such as honeysuckle.
In 2012, Guo Zerong was one of the first villagers to answer the call of officials of Shichao, in Wuchuan Gelao and Miao autonomous county, to grow honeysuckle in the barren mountain.
Yin recalled that in 2013, when President Xi Jinping visited the village of Bulenggou in Dongxiang autonomous county, about 80 percent of the villagers lived in rough adobe homes on barren slopes, many of them without running water, electricity and other basic amenities.
Just 40 years ago, when Shenzhen became home to China's first Special Economic Zone, Nanshan was no more than a barren piece of land covering 187.5 square kilometers.
Transformation of barren landsForty years ago, massive infrastructure construction sprung up across Shantou after the State Council announced to build it into a special economic zone.
Tens of thousands of ambitious workers began to pour in with an expectation to transform the barren land into one that has a network of modern facilities such as transportation and thriving businesses.
In recent years, the city has made significant progress in ecological restoration and helped farmers cultivate hawthorn trees on barren slopes.
The Hami-Chongqing project is part of a national plan unveiled last year to develop clean energy, including wind and solar power, in China's deserts and barren lands, which are mostly located in Northwest China.
Their large expanse of barren land rich in wind and solar resources makes it ideal for developing huge solar and wind power parks that can transform the desolate area into a bustling hub for renewable energy.
- The northern region of China is witnessing a remarkable surge in the construction of solar and wind power parks along its desert belt and this development is transforming the once barren and desolate areas into a bustling hub for renewable energy.
The investigation team soon found a barren mountainside covered in ferns in Pu'an.
In the highlands of Gansu province, locals have transformed barren land into green terraces by cultivating vegetables, with the produce being sold to more than 20 cities nationwide and some overseas markets, thus helping farmers improve living standards.
With the household contract responsibility system introduced in late 1970s, which allowed farmers to own farmland through a collective, often a village committee, farmers of Sanyuanzhu village started growing fruits on barren slopes, in hope of raising income to buy food and clothes.
At Haituo Mountain, one of the game sites, the company had to cover the high, barren terrain with a web of optical fiber, the total length of which would encircle the Earth 3.6 times, the company said.
This wheat field is not an ordinary one, as only a few years ago the field was no more than a vast expanse of barren land, with a layer of white salt appearing on the soil surface in autumn.