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With the economic and social development, desertification exerted increasingly profound influences on natural environment and social development and attracted widespread attention of international communities. China, as one of the countries facing severe desertification problems, has witnessed some progress in understanding and combating the process of desertification through many years of hard work. Based on the experiences and research achievements, this paper briefly discusses the causes, developmental processes, damage assessment and control mechanism of desertification in the north of China so as to provide some basic experiences for the further study of desertification.
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Wang, T., Zhu, Z. & Wu, W. Sandy desertification in the north of China. Sci. China Ser. D-Earth Sci. 45 (Suppl 1), 23–34 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02878385
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