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Private firms help push back deserts and poverty
2018-08-09
Entrepreneurs in Inner Mongolia are playing a key role in combating desertification through economic development, as Hou Liqiang reports.
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Sand control along cross-desert highway
2018-08-08
The Xini-Wulashan Highway in Hanggin Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia autonomous region, has been applauded by various media organizations as bird-view photos showing the greening efforts along the route recently went viral on the Internet.
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Kubuqi a successful example of desert greening
2018-08-06
The world's most successful land reclamation project is not to be found in a coastal area, since it is not land reclaimed from the sea. Instead, one needs to look west from Beijing at inland China and land reclaimed from desert.
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Ordos channels Yellow River water to combat desertification
2018-05-31
The city of Ordos in the Inner Mongolian autonomous region has been praised for its innovations in the channeling of water from the Yellow River during its ice-flow period to irrigate surrounding land.
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Sand-control helps villagers launch careers
2017-09-26
People living in the Kubuqi Desert have improved their understanding of “desert” by practicing desertification control over the past several decades.
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Kubuqi Desert reborn after decades of ecological construction
2017-09-26
“The environment in Ordos used to be quite terrible. The sand piled up halfway up the walls after a sandstorm overnight in spring,” said Li Fuxiang, recalling his childhood more than 30 years ago.
