Beijing plants trees to stop sandstorms
The money will fund the planting of 13,333 hectares of trees in Zhangjiakou and Chengde cities in neighbouring Hebei Province from 2007 to 2011.Beijing will also cooperate with neighbouring regions in desertification monitoring and sandstorm warnings, Xinhua news agency reported. Beijing has already launched the “Beijing-Tianjin windblown sand sources control project”, which aims to plant 40,000 hectares of trees on hills and speed up the sand control 16,000 hectares of desert land.
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