60 years 24,000 villages have been buried in sand

 3 13, Chang Ningxiang Minqin the road leading to the village Guodong, a car was loaded with wood dust storms blowing wheel turned to the ground.

Die Zeit on March 28 reported that the North South Dry sand. In mid-March, when a severe drought in the southwest, the northwest of Xinjiang and Gansu from the same time filled with dust storms in China, as far as the scope of the Yangtze River to the south of Fujian and Taiwan, which again lead people to the deteriorating ecological concerns. In the past 60 years, China had approximately 24,000 villages have been buried in sand, and dust storms are becoming increasingly strong.

dust normalization

Liu Tuo told this reporter.

Gansu Desert Control Research Institute to provide information indicating that the number of sandstorms because the impact of winds less than in previous years, but the impact of a single dust storm showing a tendency to expand the scope, intensity stronger.

3 14, Hotan a particularly strong area of 500 km rampant black sandstorms, visibility is zero - the day turned into night.

the first time for failure to report the sandstorm, dust storm forecasts in charge of the Director of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region Wen Qing said that the forecast presented to Hotan local dust storms of the materials to be handed in next day. She asked, local people report, said: ), this year began to report.

3 19, Hotan and other places from another source from the sandstorm, the sand storm Road (West: North West Europe - Western Siberia - the western region of Xinjiang - the Hexi Corridor, the Qaidam Basin - Loop , eastern Inner Mongolia) drifting in southern China, has reached the most distant of Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan.

occurred in March of this year, two severe dust storms, dust storms in previous years, like to once again lead people to the deteriorating ecological concerns.

dust storms also led to power outages Minqin Gansu, Gansu Desert Control Research Institute observatory Minqin Sandstorm 4 pm daily report data to the State Forestry Administration, and then submitted to the State Department could not be carried out.

March 23, experts in domestic dust storm has passed through the media announced the same evening, the provincial capital Lanzhou, Gansu Province, the wind breaks out, the gap in the city of East Turkistan in the West, channeling, slipping by the dust in the sky. Office of the State Forestry Administration

desertification, a senior official said the emergency work is a dust storm has the responsibility, not rights, has a mission, no funds have a job, no credit for the work. Application - present in most provinces there is no special funding.

strong winds, bare soil, air convection, which is the formation of dust storms must have three basic conditions. In a number of desert, sand, serious desertification in northern China, when the spring recovery, they have the dust of the above conditions. Hexi Corridor, Gansu and Inner Mongolia

Alashan area, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia, northwestern Shanxi sand along the Great Wall, Shahuang soil dry farming area, located north of Beijing, the eastern Hunshandake, Hulunbeier, Horqin sand and the edge of Tarim Basin, Xinjiang is China's four major source of dust storms. Desert Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences of the original Yang Gensheng introduction, in which the Hexi Corridor in Gansu, Inner Mongolia Alashan policy area is the strongest source of dust storms. Statistics ,1952-2000, China's dust storm intensity and frequency of exceptionally strong, Minqin occurred 43 times, 42 times Hotan, Xinjiang, China is also the two regions with the highest frequency of dust storms.

3 months beyond 20 June, Die Zeit drove into Minqin, Alxa region.

after westerly Manjuan Once Upon a quiet source of dust storms. Minqin's to the head, the farmers in planting; the road leading to Cosby, although difficult to man, save hundreds of kilometers, but from time to time with the camel and go. Cosby in the desert town, a woman surnamed Zhang in checking the firmness is - the day before she felt the house should be blown collapse.

no effective rainfall, a myriad of Badan Jaran Desert are using this moment of quiet, the next dust storm brewing.

the civil power to save Minqin

folder Township Guodong in Minqin a bungalow in the village, facing more and more strong and willful raging sandstorm,

are now surrounded by sand Guodong Village. South of the village, other villages in the west and north, there are fields, the mobility of sand to be small in most of the sand dunes in the ongoing governance, the trend has shown a cure. But in the east and southeast of the village, because almost no vegetation on sand dunes, under the instigation of the wind, endless Tengger Desert at an annual rate of 10-20 meters forward. According to census data of desertification, the spread of deserts and sandstorms as a threat, in the past 60 years, China has about 24,000 villages have been buried in sand.

a year ago, the work of Ma Jun River to quit the city, returning to his home village of trees Minqin Guodong, expectations as to gather up more volunteers, work together to save Minqin. He pulled the network cable at home, in addition to expanding the network to To understand her family, Ma Jun River

Jun Ma Creek snow expected to slow this year, the magic of spring dust storms.

Jun Ma Creek home in the tens of kilometers away from the dust storms outside stations, observers do not have any king of this powerful look. Wang powerful yet accurate calculation of the spring through the meteorological department of precipitation, he said Minqin the past few years in the annual rainfall is about 110 mm, mainly in summer and autumn and spring, small, only an estimated fifty-six mm so far this year.

Minqin times weekly press several towns surveyed, and from Mongolia to reach Cosby Minqin along this line is the most likely areas of sand.

territory Badanjilin Minqin Desert and the Tengger desert, soft sand, a line off-road vehicles getting stuck several times. Wang pointed to strong sand dunes in front of a tall, said he just goes to work in 2007 and is now compared to about 3 meters down the dunes - sand dunes extended forward too fast.

in the observation tower, he opened the lid, grabbed the inside of the sand, said 19 of a wind, resulting from a 40 cm long, 0.5 cm wide, a small section of the inflow Sada to 1 kg.

into Cosby, after a period of about 10 km newly formed sand dunes, under power in the wind, the rapid expansion of the surrounding.

22 日 10, the king of strong wire outside the observation tower in the dig under the door of the bunker for a long time, still can not find the key to open the door. Then turned into the wall and knocked a measurement instrument air sediment, dust everywhere. He has a sort of feeling that: Zhang left guard towers uncle old married couple, others were forced to move because of sandstorms.

house, no fire, said Ma Jun Creek has been used to the poor. March 13, 2010, he and his friends went to Minqin Chang Ningxiang law. 11 am to go and was more than the sky Yin Yunfei dance, if the sun seems to be no. This is a windy prelude Ma Jun Creek deliberately wearing a coat, wearing a knee, his friend wearing a sheepskin coat, the two riding a motorcycle starting.

14:30, they arrived at the seat of government there from Chang Ningxiang Yongan Village 2.5 km. At this point, the wind blowing in the folder with a lot of sand, , drilled mouths,

13-day dust not cleaned, at 22:00 on the 19th and more, Jun Ma River is through the network with the friends discuss how to organize volunteers to plant trees Minqin when the sobbing outside the window came the sound of tree branches, Looking in the dark night the stars still weak, he opened the door and pick up the torch to light the night sky the past, full of light and shade of fine floating dust, turned round and he shut the door and windows to sit down. This is at the house was covered with loess to smell. All efforts to stop the smell into the nose almost in vain.

next morning, Jun Ma River open house, saw the door has a thin pile of yellow dust heap. Yard, wave-shaped accumulation of dust sandwiched sticks and dry leaves. Color of the sky still so sallow, like the air to make him feel suffocate.

researcher Zhao Academy of Gansu Province, according to study dust storms on the human body is very harmful.

with dust and its properties (heavy metals, sulfate, organic compounds, viruses), the first human ENT, eye, skin stimulation, followed them into the respiratory tract, the respiratory tract, cardiovascular system and so great harm.

dust is a potential allergic and non-allergic diseases of the motivating factor, rheumatism, Kala-azar, cardiovascular diseases, especially pneumonia, the incidence and the occurrence of dust storms.

desert grassland each year occur in Africa, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, and the southwestern United States occurred in coccidioidomycosis and dust storm activity. In addition, particulate matter polluted areas, increase the incidence of rickets in children, tonsillitis, colds and other diseases transmitted through the air have a higher rate.

but even so, Ma Jun-ho says, still regret and homeland.

deforestation Yi suffering

Ma Jun River this year has recruited volunteers planting 200 the 29 old fellow intention pure folk this governance mode Minqin different village in the surrounding recommended. No job, no family side, this year the majority of his peers to lead a solitary life of hard to understand. As for the survival of his intention to come up with a few million to build a sheep farm -

in his recruitment, the Guodong wasteland around the village have been planted on 200 acres of vegetation, more action this year, he estimated to have 400 acres.

Guodong Village was originally called

According to village elders, Guodong this desert village, and there is an old river channel between the original seven or eight years ago this place was once a river branch aspect, for many years continue to flow along the river There is also a large poplar, to fall scenery is very nice. Later, the repair of the Hongyashan Reservoir, where water flows under the control of the people have rhythm and organizations in the government's call, from the outside to the transfer of the seeds of many desert plants, Shami, bitter wormwood, Mao article , birch rods, Calligonum ... ... spread to the beach, and planted large areas of sand jujube.

angustifolia forest in the early 80s of last century there is someone care. Care at Forest Farm is a chess-day old man named Don. Tang Qi-day strong sense of responsibility, to prevent middle of the night was to cut trees or sheep,UGGs, he often took a big Yang Piao, a wrap themselves, find a secluded place to lie down at night and sleep in the forest. Tang Qi days to catch people who had been his unsparing. Jun Ma Creek I remember one time, the family's sheep run off, and bolted all the way east, went to the forest edge, such as the sheep are keeping the family home, Tang Qi days also with the room. He should be fine.

80 end of the decade, the man named to succeed Don Dan Zhongyan chess day, as the forest guard, though not completely eliminate the occurrence of sheep cutting down trees, but also as much as possible to protect the vegetation from being damaged. At the same time, the prices of production, a substantial increase in cost of living, the villagers only to obtain land in order to cope with life, began a large area of wasteland. Academy of Gansu Province, Zhao believes that the impact of human activities on dust storms, mainly in unreasonable land use, such as excessive cultivation,Discount UGG boots, overgrazing, over-mining and the mining and industrial city of firewood and road building,cheap UGG boots, destroying forests and grasslands, decreased vegetation cover, bare sandy surface, so that the occurrence of dust storms increase in intensity and frequency.

addition to that piece of Elaeagnus angustifolia forest, Guodong village can reclaim the land have been reclaimed. Jun Ma River, remember, almost overnight, and the family have been informed to grab lots adults, Elaeagnus forest is divided into a few pieces,UGG boots, each tree are numbered, each number and then the arrested, according to tree the size of the price of pay to cut trees. Elaeagnus species of black forest seeds into the fields, black melon seeds 7 yuan per catty enough to make these for the price of food, clothing, children go to school and not be worried farmers to worry about ecology, can only see one ridge sand ridge is a white plastic film melon paved ditch, Elaeagnus forest since vanished.

tide in the wasteland, forest people who along with the villagers into deforestation. jujube

no sand beach, but also some desert plants with long, colorful look at the summer season. Can be a winter, the flock after the beach to the low of the hay that was missing, followed by a spot of sand from sandstorms.

Guodong Village as desertification of land each day, the villagers have finally tasted the bitter pill.

No patch of wasteland of sand jujube, prices plummeted because of the black seeds, but also thoroughly into wasteland, the above are no trees, only scattered sparse, low weeds, less than 100 mm in the annual blessing of natural precipitation under the bricks.

Minqin abandoned the policy of this year is very tough, can be planted this year in Minqin to too little, mostly young adults to the field.

4 月 11 day, volunteers will be called River Ma Jun in the original forest species of Elaeagnus a new vegetation. Although dust storms will come again and again, the overall in Minqin rapid deterioration of the ecological state, but it can to suppress the local small-scale sand, Jun Ma River have finally done a force.



(This article Source: Die Zeit of: Wang Peng)