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China has published its third national plan to combat desertification, reports China Environment News<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The plan<\/a> includes measures to improve local economies in desertification-prone regions, such as by boosting tourism and encouraging renewable energy projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It aims to treat 6.7 million hectares of desertified land by 2025, and to increase this to 12.4 million hectares by 2030 \u2013 or 67% of desertified land that can be treated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The third such plan<\/a> approved by the State Council since 2002, it includes 30 province-level administrative divisions and 920 counties, covering all of China\u2019s desertified land. Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Hebei, Gansu and Qinghai emerge as the top five divisions for anti-desertification tasks, accounting for 72.4% of such tasks taking place in the 14th Five Year Plan period (2021-2025).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China has more desert area than any other country and is worst affected by sandstorms. But it has taken measures<\/a> to help restore grasslands and forests, and has successfully slowed and is now reversing overall desertification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the sixth national monitoring survey on desertification<\/a>, released at the end of 2022, China\u2019s desertified area has decreased for four consecutive 5-year monitoring periods. Desertification has been effectively controlled in 53% of the land susceptible to it, and for the first time, all provinces surveyed reported desertification reversals, the survey found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, 17.58% of China\u2019s land remains desert and some problems need to be solved. For example, during the past 20 years, the policies<\/a> of returning croplands to grasslands or forests, known as \u201cgrain-for-green\u201d, and of prohibiting herders from grazing their animals, \u201cgrazing exclusion\u201d, has impacted farmers and herders in desertification-prone regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A study<\/a> published earlier this year, found that their declines in direct incomes caused by these policies exceeded the compensation they received from the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China needs to \u201ccreate positive synergies to combat desertification and improve the economy in this region\u201d, the study authors wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read China Dialogue\u2019s <\/em>recent report on China and Mongolia\u2019s effots to fight sandstroms<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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