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	Shapotou Tourist and Scenic Zone - China Travel Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Shapotou is situated 20 kilometers from Zhongwei County and on the southern rim of the Tenger Desert, with the Baotou-Lanzhou Railway running right through the place which is bordered on the north by the desert and the railway and on the south by the Yellow River and the Xianshan Mountain.
		The railway is hemmed in between belts of luxuriant vegetation.
		One of China’s four humming sand dunes is situated at the top of Shapotou, where the slope rises to a height of 100 meters.
	www.uvista.com /en/ningxia/shapotou.htm (310 words)

	CNN - Earth
		Its shifting sands are threatening to bury bushes and trees sheltering a railway that for 30 years has kept the desert from advancing south.
		The Shapotou Railway shuttles passengers between Baotou City and Lanzhou in northern China.
		But unless something is done to reverse this apparent trend, their now-lush greenery could someday be obliterated, leaving only the desert's sand dunes as far as the eye can see.
	www.cnn.com /EARTH/9608/25/china.desert (416 words)

	Where Yellow River meets desert
		Shapotou, where the Yellow River meets the Tengger Desert, and Shahu Lake in the desert have become hot tourist spots.
		Shapotou, or Head of Sand Slope, is 22 km from the county seat of Zhongwei.
		It is a landmark of the county and also the backdrop of many legends.Visitors to Shapotou also come for the scenery and excitement of the Yellow River’s turbulent waters.
	pdf.sznews.com /big5/content/2002-07/02/content_1061393.htm (934 words)

	Annex 2: Bibliographic entries (e)
		The heat balance character of artificial vegetation on sand dunes in Shapotou region were calculated and analysed.
		The results show that: (1) 70 percent of net radiation is dispersed as latent flux; 15 percent' as sensible heat flux; and 15 percent is stored in soil on the sand dunes with vegetation.
		Shapotou Desert Experimental Research Station on the southern fringe of Tengger Desert has an annual rainfall of 186.2 mm.
	www.fao.org /docrep/w7539e/w7539e0e.htm (2291 words)

	Annex 2: Bibliographic entries
		Chinese scientists have successfully established artificial vegetation under non irrigated conditions in Shapotou area at the southeastern margin of Tengger Desert, where the annual precipitation is less than 180 mm.
		Observation data showed that during the initial stages the moisture content of afforested sand dunes varied between two and four percent; eight years later the figure was reduced to between one and two percent; 20 years later, 0.59 to one percent.
		During autumn nights in Shapotou area the maximum depth affected by condensed water varied from seven to nine centimetres.
	www.fao.org /docrep/W7539E/w7539e0a.htm (1780 words)

	Travel Guide -- Destination ...
		Sixteen kilometres west of Zhongwei, SHAPOTOU is a kind of tourist resort by the banks of the Yellow River.
		The main pleasure of the place is in the contrast between the leafy, shady banks of the river itself, and the harsh desert that lies just beyond.
		There's also some dramatic sand-dune scenery, and the spectacle of sandy desert actually in the process of being reclaimed: the Shapotou Desert Research Centre has been based here for forty years, working on ways to conquer the sands, and some of the fruits of their labour can be seen en route to the resort.
	guide.appetitenet.com /index.jsp?action=viewLocation&cid=70130&locationId=23399 (489 words)

	Zhongwei
		The best way to go would be to take a minibus heading to Gantang from the Bus Station as they use the fast road next to the railway, arrive within 30mn, fill up faster and leave you at the top of the dunes for a panoramic view...
		After you visited the touristy and karaoke areas, walk the beautiful fields toward east (pass the gate and walk straight for 45mn, until one village where you need to turn right), on the road used by the minibus to/from Shapotou.
		Calculate your timing so that the bus catch up with you when the road start to loose its interest, after around one hour walk (allow more time for side walks in the greenery or sand dunes).
	www.passplanet.com /China/cn/zhongwei.htm (601 words)

	Hotels in Shapotou, China
		It's a slow train actually in various stages of the place is in the road to Shapotou takes thirty to Shapotou as camel-riding and, more unusually, sheepskin rafting.
		It has nice doubles with gardens full of the river itself, and all the Shapotou takes thirty to forty years, working on a lot of the river itself, and the muffled roar of ski lift; ¥5).
		It's a kind of a very cool and some dramatic sand-dune scenery, and walk a charming place, with shady trees, cafés and all the resort.
	www.hotel-database.co.uk /guide.php?location=1010 (205 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Grasslands and Grassland Sciences in Northern China (1992)
		The mission of the institute is to study the formation and character of desert regions and to experiment with means for predicting, preventing, and reversing the process of desertification.
		The Shapotou Desert Experiment and Research Station, established in 1956, at the southeast edge of the Tengger Desert (37°27'N, 104°57'E), has done notable work in agricultural development and sand dune fixation.
		The Linze Sandland Utilization Experiment Station, established in 1975, on the north side of the Linze Oasis in the Hexi Corridor (39°20'N, 100°09'E), conducts studies and experiments on the prevention of desertification at the oasis periphery and the introduction of sand-holding species.
	www.nap.edu /openbook/030904684X/html/165.html (637 words)

	mitchell
		Deserts and desertified land together occupy 1.52 million km2 or 15.9% of China and this area is expanding at an estimated mean rate of 2100 km
		Desertification and wind erosion processes were investigated at Shapotou Research Station, Ningxia, on the south-eastern edge of the Tengger Desert.
		The station was established in 1956 to investigate methods of protecting the Batou to Lanzhou railway from moving sand.
	www.weru.ksu.edu /symposium/abstracts/mitchell.htm (268 words)

	GEO_PLATE_E-23.HTML (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Shapotou Desert Research Station, north of a bend in the Yellow River near the center of this Plate, was established in 1956 by Academia Sinica to develop and monitor methods to protect a major east-west railroad where it passes through the Tengger.
		The railroad is the dark line north of the river on the Plate.
		The Shapotou Desert Research Station is at the bend of the Yellow River on the right.
	daac.gsfc.nasa.gov /geomorphology/GEO_8/GEO_PLATE_E-23.HTML (515 words)

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		The site, adjacent to China's 4,200 km-long west-to-east gas pipeline project, is 4.5 km from the Shapotou sand control project, a state-level nature reserve in Zhongwei County of Ningxia, a United Nations-recognized model of successful environmental protection.
		The Shapotou project was given the prestigious title of "Global 500" by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1994 for its effectiveness in stemming desertification.
		To protect the 13,000-hectare Shapotou Nature Reserve, designers have adjusted the route of the pipeline, extending it by an additional 20 additional km and having it span the Yellow River, which increases the cost by a big margin, Wu said.
	www.unep.org /cpi/briefs/BRIEF30June.doc (11046 words)

	Zhongwei Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
		The city is still in a potentially awkward location, between the fickle Yellow River to the south and the sandy Tenger Desert to the north, but today Zhongwei is surrounded by a rich belt of irrigated fields, and the desert is kept at bay through reafforestation projects.
		The river outside the town, at Shapotou, is a splendid sight and should definitely be visited if you are in the area.
		Zhongwei is based around a simple crossroads, with a traditional Gulou (Drum Tower) at the centre.
	www.infohub.com /destinations/asia/China/Zhongwei (300 words)

	Tourism Gala Opens in NW China's Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The tourism gala, entitled "2002 China Ningxia Deserts and Yellow River International Tourism Festival", is co-sponsored by the State Tourism Administration and the regional government.
		Shapotou Tourist Zone is the main venue for the festive gathering but there are five secondary venues across the autonomous region.
		Shapotou has been named one of the Top 500 places for carrying out environmental protection by the United Nations.
	english1.peopledaily.com.cn /200207/19/eng20020719_100018.shtml (339 words)

	IngentaConnect Abiotic Soil Crust Formation on Dunesin an Extremely Arid Environ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The spatial and temporal patterns of soil crust formation on stabilized dunes at Shapotou, northwestern China, were studied on a time sequence of 0, 18, 35, and 43 years.
		The spatial pattern of soil formation was estimated by measuring the thickness of accumulated sand fractions on the stabilized dune surface and by analyzing the particle size distribution of soil crust.
		Through this alternation, the fine soil layer beneath the crust can be continuously widened and thickened with increasing stabilization time.
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/tandf/uasr/2003/00000017/00000001/art00004 (357 words)

	Silkroad 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Shapotou is a small village in the Ningxia province, sandwiched between the sand dunes of the Tengger Desert and the Yellow River.
		It is a quiet and very pleasant place to stay.
		We made the way back to Shapotou by an 5 hours leather raft on the Yellow River.
	www.schaeferwo.de /album/silkroad_e.html (68 words)

	Shapotou: Yinchuan Tourist Attractions
		10 kilometers west of Zhongwei county, Shapotou lies on the bank of the Yellow River.
		It has an 80 meter sand dune which echoes when one slides down the dune.
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	www.travelchinaguide.com /attraction/ningxia/yinchuan/shapotou.htm (180 words)

	Tonghu grassland and Alxa League - Forum - China Travel Community
		I am looking for information on Tonghu grassland, supposedly reachible from Shapotou desert reserarch centre.
		I saw a picture of yurts in the sand somewhere on the net.
		Is it possible to make a tour (camel) there from Shapotou?
	community.travelchinaguide.com /forum2.asp?pp=7&i=5457 (410 words)

	Xiahe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Yesterday I met 3 other travellers, also alone.
		One of them, a girl from Israel went to Zhongwei today and then to Shapotou.
		I'll be joining here there, coz my trip goes the same way.
	www.travelblog.org /Asia/China/blog-7548.html (329 words)

	A2A News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport will open mid next year
		China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in the northwest of the country outlined plans to build two new feeder airports at Guyuan and Shapotou.
		The $25 million Guyuan airport will be designed to handle 60,000 passengers a year and be operational by 2010.
	www.a2a.aero /news/story.html?storyID=123 (894 words)

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