'Photovoltaic sea' forming in North China desert

HOHHOT — In Chaideng village in Ordos city, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, 3.46 million blue solar panels stretch across the desert, covering 30 square kilometers, transforming the endless sands into a shimmering "photovoltaic sea".

The solar power base is part of an ambitious solar energy desert reclamation project known as the "great photovoltaic wall", spanning along the northern edge of the Kubuqi Desert.

This grand project, though not able to rival the real Great Wall in length, is planned to extend about 400 km with an average width of five km, according to Liu Tianyun, deputy director of the forestry and grassland bureau of Ordos.