New China forests keep desert in check
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Northwest China’s Shaanxi province has been successful in fending off desert encroachment by planting new forests near the Great Wall. According to a Xinhua report, satellite images taken in August 2009 showed that areas of the Loess Plateau have turned from yellow to green. China began a forest-planting project in 1978 to curb desert encroachment and soil erosion in the northwestern and northeastern regions. The scheme has created a new 7,000km forest belt.
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