1993年5月,86岁高龄的远山正瑛先生率领日本国“第10次绿色协力队”来到我国内蒙古自治区的毛乌素沙漠,与当地人民共同植树造林。远山正瑛先生在日本素有“沙丘之父”的称号,曾任鸟取大学农学部教授。退休后,为协助我国沙漠地区人民脱贫,自1991年7月起,先后10次组织“绿色协力队”志愿来我国协助造林,共达400余人次。这次来毛乌素沙漠的队员中,最小的年仅15岁,60岁以上的有多人。 In May 1993, 86-year-old Mr. Yasuyama Toyama led the 10th Green Cooperation Team of Japan to the Mu Us Desert in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and re-afforestation with the local people. Hideyama Toyama is known as the “father of sand dunes” in Japan and was a professor of agriculture at Tottori University. After retirement, in order to help people in desert areas of our country get out of poverty, since July 1991, they have successively organized 10 volunteers of “Green Cooperation Team” to help afforestation in China with a total of more than 400 people. This time to the Mu Us Desert players, the youngest only 15 years old, more than 60 years of age.