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China: Nomads resettled to protect prairie and wetlands
Posted by Shanghai Daily: None Given on January 23rd, 2013
Shanghai Daily: MORE than 737,000 nomadic herders have been resettled away from the headwaters region of the Yellow River over the past five years in an effort to protect China's "mother river" and stop over-grazing and erosion.
According to recently released figures, the nomads are all ethnic Tibetans and have been resettled, along with their animals, in new communities in the southern tip of Gansu Province in northwest China. The move is aimed at protecting prairie and wetlands.
"We want to give the grassland...
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Beijing battered by rainstorms
Posted by Shanghai Daily: None Given on July 22nd, 2012
Shanghai Daily: STORMS that lashed large swathes of northern and southwestern China from Friday night through yesterday have killed at least 14 people, authorities said.
And heavy rains are forecast to continue in China's northern regions and some southern parts over the next three days.
In Beijing, rainstorms and gales that started around 10am yesterday have left at least four people dead and six others injured, police and medical workers said.
Roofs at a construction site in the city's suburban Tongzhou...