数百年来,交河故城附近的农民,午复一年地用毛驴车把遗址的浮土连同文物拉运到农田作肥料。近代西方探险家又多次到这座荒城挖宝。今天,这座古堡式城市仍然面临着来自自然和游客的威胁。为了保护这一人类伟大遗产,举世瞩目的交河故城保护工程已经揭开序幕。在联合国教科文组织指导下,在现场工作的中日专家学者希望把这座有2000多年历史的戈壁荒城建成世界著名的古代城市 For hundreds of years, peasants who pay near the old city of Gucheng have used the donkey cart to carry the floating earth of the site together with cultural relics to the farmland for fertilizer year after year. Modern Western explorers have repeatedly dig into the wasteland. Today, the castle-like city still faces the threat of nature and tourists. In order to protect this great mankind heritage, pay attention to the world’s cross-river hometown protection project has been kicked off. Under the guidance of UNESCO, the experts and scholars in China and Japan who work at the scene hope to build this 2,000-year-old Gobi Desert into a world famous ancient city