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Desertification control in Youyu County, Shanxi Province

dc.contributorEcosystems Divisionen_US
dc.contributor.authorChinaen_US
dc.coverage.spatialChinaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-06T19:03:05Z
dc.date.available2019-09-06T19:03:05Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11822/29774
dc.descriptionYouyu County covers 1969km 2 in Shanxi Province with an average altitude of 1400m, where belongs to a cold and arid zone. It lies in the northwest of Shanxi Province with worse natural conditions, the average annual temperature is 4.2 ℃℃, and the lowest extreme temperature is 40.14 The climate is dry with little rain in normal year, and the average annual rainfall is less than 400mm. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were only 8,000 mu of remnant forest in the county Desertification land account s for 76% of the area. Ecologic al environment was harsh and frequent natural disasters occurred After the founding of new China, especially the state key forestry ecological projects (“Three North Shelterbelt” and “Grain for Green Project”), which have been implemented since then. Under the successive leadership of Youyu County Party Committee and County Government presidents, Youyu people promote the spirit of respecting science, perseverance and hard struggle. They threw themselves into the afforestation and the improvement of the ecological environment by persistence in the last 70 years, who created an amazing ecological construction miracle.en_US
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dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.publisherNational Forestry and Grassland Administration of Chinaen_US
dc.relation.ispartofUN Secretary General Climate Action Summiten_US
dc.rightsPublicen_US
dc.titleDesertification control in Youyu County, Shanxi Provinceen_US
dc.typeConcepts and Proposalsen_US
wd.identifier.sdgSDG 13 - Climate Actionen_US
wd.tagsAdaptationen_US
wd.tagsAgricultureen_US
wd.tagsBiodiversityen_US
wd.tagsLanden_US
wd.topicsClimate changeen_US
wd.topicsForestsen_US
wd.identifier.pagesnumber8 p.en_US


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