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China continues anti-desertification efforts with remarkable results

By Wang Yiming Source: China.org.cn Updated: 2020-10-04

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Before and after images with a normalized difference vegetation index (in the bottom lefthand corner of each) show the contrast of vegetation conditions of the Maowusu Desert in 2000 (top) and 2019 (bottom). The Maowusu Desert reaches from Ordos, Inner Mongolia in the south, to Yulin, Shaanxi province in the north, covering an area of 42,200 square kilometers. [Photo courtesy of China's National Forestry and Grassland Administration]

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