Xinhua: Beijing shells out to control sandstorms

From Xinhua – English:

Beijing plans to spend more than 234 million yuan (28.1 million US dollars) this year to reduce the effects of sandstorms and to bring them under control at the source, the municipal government said.

Under the city’s sandstorm source treatment project, the city will handle and control the sources of sandstorms along three major rivers and in the two sandy areas by 2008, covering 13,333 hectares of sandy land.

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