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    Ronald Sakolsky fills a jar with sand from the Mu Us Desert in Inner Mongolia, planning to bring it back to the US, on August 24, 2026. Photo: Lin Xiaoyi
On Monday afternoon, Ronald Sakolsky, an American teacher, set foot once again on the soil of the Mu Us Desert, in the Uxin Banner of Ordos, North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. He first came here in 2000. Back then, the land was little more than drifting sand. Today, it is green with trees – a transformation driven by decades of local effort.
He stood within Sakolsky Forest, a woodland formally named to honor his early donation toward local ecological restoration. There, he carried out a plan he had held long before this trip: filling a jar with sand from the desert to bring home to the US.
More than two decades ago, sand was the one thing this place had in abundance. In 1999, when Sakolsky arrived in China as a participant in a bilateral teacher exchange program, he was moved by the tireless efforts of Chinese desert fighter Yin Yuzhen and her husband to curb desertification in the Mu Us Desert. He raised $5,000 – equivalent in 1999 to three years of income for Yin’s entire family – to fund their local tree-planting initiative.
The young saplings bought with that donation have since matured into more than 50,000 full-grown trees, transforming the once desolate, sandy wasteland into a thriving green landscape.
When Sakolsky met Yin at the airport on Sunday, 26 years after his first visit to Inner Mongolia, he joked that he could not take a tree from the Mu Us Desert, but he could slip some sand into his shoes and carry a piece of the land back with him. Now, he had found exactly the sand he wanted – not just any sand, but from a place where persistence had turned desert into life, and where his own name had become part of that story.
“Promise is a promise,” he said. “Ms. Yin made a promise, and she fulfilled it.”
For Sakolsky, the sand is not just dirt. It is a metaphor, a bridge, a shared ground. He plans to tell his grandchildren what it means. “It’s not just a piece of sand in the jar,” he said. “It’s a jar of love.”
He used the jar of sand to symbolize that America and China share a relationship rooted in the same soil. He shook the jar, holding its two ends as if they were the two countries, and said that it shows we’re all on the same planet.
There is an old American joke, he noted, that if you dig a hole deep enough, you will eventually reach China. “We’re all on the same planet,” he said.
Earlier that day, while visiting Yin’s home, he spoke about the need for Americans and Chinese to see each other as family. “All Americans should understand that Chinese people and Americans can be family,” he said. “We can transcend differences if we focus on our common ground. We all love our countries, and we all value loyalty and respect – these are the shared virtues we hold dear.”
As for the sand he collected, Sakolsky said he would treat it as a treasure, alongside all his other precious keepsakes from China. He expects to display it in his living room – a daily reminder of the forest that carries his name and the people who made it grow.
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二 |     　　中新社上海8月25日电 (记者 姜煜)普华永道25日在上海举办发布会，正式发布《中国企业并购市场2026年中回顾及展望》报告。该报告称，在多重利好驱动下，2026年上半年中国并购市场交易宗数与交易规模双双跃升至近三年高位。

三 | 　　报告称，2026年上半年，中国并购市场交易宗数达7316宗，同比增幅近30%，创历史新高；交易总规模2416亿美元，同比激增56%，为2023年以来半年度最佳表现。　　上半年中国并购市场的强劲复苏主要由财务投资者主导，其交易宗数和规模同比涨幅分别接近50%和85%。与此同时，战略投资者交易宗数虽然微跌7%，交易额却上涨近40%。超大型交易(单宗交易金额超10亿美元)累计达27宗，与去年同期持平，其中境内战略投资类交易14宗，超半数由中国国有资本主导推进。资金流向呈现明显的科创聚焦特征，高科技领域的超大型交易共10宗，主要集中在人工智能、存储、半导体等硬科技赛道。　　2026年上半年，中国内地企业海外并购呈现显著的“量跌价升”特征，交易宗数低于去年同期，但平均交易规模明显抬升。上半年海外并购总额达202亿美元，累计完成92宗交易；其中超大型交易录得4宗，较去年同期的3宗有所回升。　　展望2026年下半年，普华永道亚太区国际税务主管合伙人庄树清表示，综合来看，下半年中国并购市场有望延续活跃态势，今年全年的市场规模预计较2025年增长。

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