SINGAPORE: Mongolia was the main source of northern China's worst sandstorms in five years from January to April, and may have contributed as much as 70 per cent of the dust floating over capital Beijing,
"Several large-scale dust processes occurred this spring, and the major sources are mainly the Gobi desert in southern Mongolia and sand sources in our country's northwest," he added.
"Expert analysis estimates that Mongolia can contribute up to 70 per cent of the dust concentrations in Beijing and more than 50 per cent of the dust concentrations in northern China and other central and eastern regions," he said. Around 77 per cent of Mongolian land is regarded as degraded due to climate change and overgrazing, as per a 2021 assessment cited by the United Nations Development Programme. The country has also seen average temperatures rise by 2.2 degrees Celsius between 1940 and 2015, with rainfall plummeting 7 per cent over the same period, according to a 2021 scientific study.
Mongolia has vowed to plant a billion trees over the 2021 to 2030 period, but officials in Ulaanbaatar complained earlier this month that the government has yet to provide sufficient funding, the official Montsame news agency reported. China and Mongolia agreed to strengthen cooperation on preventing and controlling sandstorms during a meeting between Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang and his Mongolian counterpart Batmunkh Battsetseg in Beijing this month.
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