Its amazingly hard to get consistent statistics on this. The desert appears to be between 75-100 km/miles from Beijing (I've seen some articles that clearly quoted others but switched from km/miles by mistake!) but I can't find a believeable/official source. Also, alot of articles have quoted the outdated stat of the desert growing 2460 sq km a year, but tonight I recently found this http://english.gov.cn/2006-05/30/content_295059.htm: 'China's deserts are shrinking by 7,585 sq km annually, compared with an annual expansion of 10,400 sq km at the end of last century, a senior forestry official said in Beijing on Monday. The decrease showed …
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