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FOREST RESOURCES WANAGEMENT ›› 2016›› Issue (1): 1-5.doi: 10.13466/j.cnki.lyzygl.2016.01.001

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The Status and Trend Analysis of Desertification and Sandification

TU Zhifang1, LI Mengxian1, SUN Tao2   

  1. 1. Center for Combating Desertification,SFA,Beijing 100714,China;
    2. Academy of Forest Inventory and Planning,SFA,Beijing 100714,China
  • Received:2016-01-05 Revised:2016-01-13 Published:2020-11-04

Abstract: This essay briefs the 5thChina National Desertification and Sandification Inventory Monitoring and its main features,introduces the latest information of the desertification and sandification status of China,analyzes the serious situation of desertification and sandification control,and gives some suggestions on combating desertification and sandification in China.Monitoring results show that by 2014 the desertification land area of China was 2 611 593 square kilometers and the sandification land area 1 721 175 square kilometers.Compared with these in 2009,the desertification land area decreased by 12 120 square kilometers with annual reduction of 2 424 square kilometers while the sandification net reduction by 9 902 square kilometers with annual average reduction of 1 980 square kilometers.

Key words: desertification and sandification, status of desertification and sandification, trend analysis

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