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英语作文 防止土地沙漠化

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Nearly one-fifth of China's land has become
desertified due to natural and human factors,forestry chiefs said
yesterday.
A national survey reveals areas now classified as "sandy land" top
1.74 million square kilometers-affecting 18.2 per cent of the
country's total territory at the end of 1999.
This represents a net increase of 17,180 square kilometers of sandy
land--which is the transitional state of soil before it prevents
any cultivation--in just five years,the State Forestry
Adiministration(SFA) said.
Distribution covered almost all of China's provinces, with 97 per
cent concentrated in 10 arid or semi-arid provinces and autonomous
regions in the west.
China's deserts witnessed a net increase of 52,000 square
kilometers between 1995-1999.
Now six national programs have heen launched by the government to
halt the spread of deserts.rehabilitate ecosystems in semi-arid
areas and prevent more dry land from turning into sandy soil or
desert-like areas.
These projects are designed to cover more than 85 per cent of
China's sandy land to form a framework for the country's long-term
strategy of controlling desertification.
The National Afforestation Committee(NAC) yesterday honored
individual and organization for their outstanding efforts in
controlling the spread of sandy land.
Shi Guangyin and 100 other individuals plus 100 units engaged in
afforestation were commended by forestry and personnel authorities
at a ceremony in Beijing,for their decades of work on improving
land quality and preventing desertification.
The event was held in the Great Hall of the People to commemorate
the eighth World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought.
Honored as "the National Hero of Controlling Sandy Soil"--the
highest title of its kind in China.Shi,a farmer from
desert-threat-ened Dingbian County in Northwest China's Shanxi
Province, has succeeded in bringing 13,000 hectares of sandy soil
under effective control and turning them into productive soil
through planting trees and grasses.
"What Shi and the others did is a precious treasure of the Chinese
nation," said SFA Director Zhou Shengxian.
"It should be followed by more people to support China's
intensified fight against expanding sandy land and worsening
desertification in the years ahead."
Zhou said the country"has not fundamentally reversed the trend of
deteriorating ecosysterms,with desertification worsening as drought
persists and human activities,like overfarming and
overagazing,increase."