Foreign Loans to Aid Eco-Protection in Inner MongoliaForeign loans are expected to play an important role in ecological protection endeavors in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.The region has up to now received interest-free loans of some 360 million yuan (about 43.2 million U.S. dollars) from Germany and Japan for improving the environment, said Zhou Luming, an official with the regional Bureau of Forestry. The loan from Japan will be used to deal with water and soil erosion in the middle reaches of the Yellow River within three years. Nearly 100 million tons of earth and sand end up in the Yellow River every year. The 72-million-yuan loan from Germany will be used to plant 40,000 hectares of trees within five years in Horqin, said Zhou. Inner Mongolia suffers serious desertification over an area exceeding 80 million hectares. |
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