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Sand Storm Harness Project Launched in Beijing and Tianjin

Project on Harnessing Sand Storm in Beijing and Tianjin got approval by the State Council lately, as China's six largest key projects in sand storm harnessing, it will be fully carried out after two years' trial operation.


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Harness Sandstorms
Project on Harnessing Sand Storm in Beijing and Tianjin got approval by the State Council lately, as China's six largest key projects in sand storm harnessing, it will be fully carried out after two years' trial operation.

The project is expected to be completed in 10 years, by adopting diversified-biology measures, the project aims to increase afforestation coverage, harness desertification, reduce wind and sand storm to radically curb the deterioration of desertification so that environment in Beijing and Tianjin areas can be changed fundamentally.

Traversing 700 km from east to west and 600 km from south to north, the project will cover 75 counties under the five provinces and municipalities as Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia with total area of 485,000 square km.

Major harness measures are:
  • Firstly, to seal and protect current forests to prevent commercial timber-felling action.


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  • Secondly, to return land to forest.

  • Thirdly, to quicken roil erosion control and reduce mud and silt to reservoir.

  • Fourthly, to plant bushes on wastelands and barren mountains.

  • Fifthly, to build a storm-preventing system to curb sand storm.

  • Sixthly, to adjust animal husbandry structure, change livestock farming style.

  • Seventhly, to construct farmland forest network and pasture network.

  • Eighthly, launch ecological migration in the north Yanshan mountain area.

    According to project plan, from 2001 to 2010, some 39.44 million mu of land will be returned to forest, 74.16 million mu of land will be afforested, 159.42 million mu of grassland will be harnessed, 113889 water conservancy facilities will be built, 23445 square km of rivers will be harnessed, 180,000 people will migrate to other places.

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    In recent years, it seems that sand storms are affecting Chinese people's lives more frequently and extensively. As this spring draws near, more sand storms are expected. Among the many Chinese scholars probing the reasons and controlling measures of the sand storms, Wang Shejiao, of the Northwest Historical Environment and Economic Social Development Research Centre under the Shaanxi Normal University, has put forward a rather unique view. (In Detail)







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