China's Inner Mongolia sees decrease in desertified, sandified land
STORY: China's Inner Mongolia sees decrease in desertified, sandified land
DATELINE: June 18, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:30
LOCATION: HOHHOT, China
CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT
SHOTLIST:
1. various of Inner Mongolia
STORYLINE:
The newly released results of the sixth official monitoring of desertification and sandification in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region show that the area of desertified and sandified land in the region continues to decrease.
The region's sixth monitoring process started in July 2019 and was completed at the end of 2021.
Official data shows, compared with the results of the fifth monitoring, the area of desertified and sandified land in Inner Mongolia decreased by 24.15 million mu (about 1.61 million hectares) and 14.59 million mu, respectively, with an average annual decrease of 4.83 million mu and 2.92 million mu.
At the same time, the amount of extremely severely desertified land decreased by 15.91 million mu, and the severely desertified land decreased by 18.51 million mu.
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- 2023/6/18 00:00:00
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