DW: China to Combat Desertification is a long way to go

[Deutsche Welle website reported June 17 title: China's anti-desertification: local achievements, the overall degradation

China is the most serious land desertification, one of the countries. Say, not only because of desertified land in China covers a vast area. According to figures released by the Chinese State Forestry Administration in 2011, the desertified land area of ??1.73 million square kilometers, accounting for 18% of the total land area. The severity of the desertification in China is the huge number of population involved, directly or indirectly affect the lives of nearly 400 million people.

Zhang Junfeng of the environmental organization “Green Home”, said desertification speed is slow, but the evolution of the grim situation is very obvious. Especially in northern China, water, or land, the situation is serious. 10 years ago, the volume of water in some lakes, but many lakes have dried up.

the sandstorms people familiar with the land dry and desertification under windy natural disasters. The records show that more and more frequent occurrence of dust storm phenomenon nearly 50 years. A super dust storm in northwest China in 1993, resulting in the deaths of more than 100 people. Sandstorms in the spring of 1998 all the way from China northwest in eastbound south, not only to Beijing and Tianjin Hebei region, and even the northern part of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, are plagued by sand floating suspended in the air, and lasted for many days.

China’s desertification control experts believe that, through afforestation and protection of natural activities, China is likely to be 530,000 square km currently in the desert to restore the original eco , but it will take 300 years. Last year, China’s State Forestry Administration announced the results of the fourth national degradation and desertification monitoring. The findings showed signs of land desertification control, between 2005-2009, the country’s desertified land, the average annual reduction of 1717 square kilometers.

Zhang Junfeng, but the sentence a summary of the local achievements, the overall degradation. He said that in some governance in place, there has been improvement, but on the whole, the degradation is still serious.

slow down the speed of desertification, in addition to guarantee that require a lot of money — people estimated 10 years will cost 200 billion yuan, the need to overcome a series of problems. For example, in the mountains of northwestern Sichuan, where the desertified lands are not only not reduced, on the contrary continues to expand. British “Guardian” in the analysis of this phenomenon, he wrote, the local cadres and total disregard for the land for cultivation and use of water restrictions.

warming, desertification, another important reason. Zhang Junfeng said that the desertification of western and northern China is “global climate change in northern China is a concrete manifestation”.

Therefore, Zhang Junfeng believe that governance desertification can not remain at the surface, into the origin of climate change.

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