To ensure the safe operation of the Baotou-Lanzhou Railway, China's first desert railway, the people of Zhongwei began to combat desertification in the 1950s by making straw checkerboards to ...

Lanzhou University researchers have led the ... the grain and forage system in the Loess Plateau, the mountain-oasis-desert coupled system (MODS) in Gansu Province’s Hexi Corridor, and the ...

In the desert you have to be your own repair shop. And if you run out of gas—you’re out of gas. Ready for launch: We flew from Beijing to Lanzhou and then drove to a town near the edge of the ...

The speed of desertification will soon be predictable through a new mathematical algorithm designed by Lanzhou University ... at the edge of the Badain Jaran desert. Huang Ning extended the ...

Lanzhou, capital of Gansu Province, is located between the Gaolan and the White Pagoda (Baita) mountains. It has been a hub of communications between China's Central Plain and northwestern China ...

The car was reportedly driven from Lanzhou to Urumqi over mountain passes of up to 1,600 metres and through desert terrain. During the journey it was said to have experienced temperature extremes ...