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Dust and
sand storms, along with the growing expanses of extremely dry
and eroding grasslands and desert from which they are born,
threaten the livelihoods of 400 million Chinese. Sand storms
driven by 80 mile-per-hour winds that can last days are putting
severe stress on China, causing roughly $1 billion in damage
annually, according to the Chinese government. An Asian Sahara
of sand is moving closer every year to Beijing, blackening the
sky, and producing environmental refugees and social unrest in
Inner Mongolia and throughout China.
As Beijing prepares for
the 29th Olympic Games in August 2008, the dust storms and
deteriorating condition of Inner Mongolia's grasslands have
become a priority of Chinese environmental scientists and
agronomists.
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Changing
Inner Mongolia: Pastoral Mongolian Society and the Chinese State (Oxford
Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
