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Re:China Completes Green Belt Around Taklamakan Desert by timoth3y on Sunday December 08, 2024 @05:12PM (#42361112)
The US "Shelterbelt" project in the 1930s in response to the dustbowl was of a similar vein. It involved planting over 220 million trees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plains_Shelterbelt

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