Herdsmen help to protect grassland By YANG ZEKUN in Tongliao, Inner Mongolia | China Daily | Updated: 2021-06-07 09:38 Share CLOSE Photo taken on June 5, 2020 shows a view of the grassland in Jarud Banner of Tongliao city, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region. [Photo/Xinhua] As spring arrived on the grassland last month, herdsman Khongorbaatar's first task of the day after waking around 6 am was to check his 160 newly born calves and his family meadows. Khongorbaatar, from Jaruug Banner, Tongliao, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, said that thanks to new centralized cattle-raising methods designed to restore grassland, the number of calves born each year keeps increasing, earning him about 2 million yuan ($312,000).