Grasslands and Grassland Sciences in Northern China (1992) / Chapter Skim
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2 Northern China
2 Northern China
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First are the high plains of the eastern and central Inner Mongolia Plateau, the Ordos Sandland Plateau, the Shaanxi-Gansu Loess Plateau, the western Alashan Plateau, eastern Xinjiang, and the Hashun Gobi. Second are mountains: the Daxinganling, Yinshan, and Helanshan of Inner Mongolia; the Linpanshan of Ningxia and Gansu; the Qilianshan on the northern edge of Qinghai; and the Altai, Tianshan, and Kunlun mountains in Xinjiang.
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Desert steppe, which is distributed to the west of the typical steppe and below the mountain steppe, is a transitional type between steppe and desert. Annual precipitation in the desert steppe is 150-250 mm; the aridity is greater than 2.5.
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The primary plant species in lowland meadow include Achnatherum splendens, Glycyrrhiza uralensis, Sophora alopecuroides, Phragmites commuzzis, Alhagi sparsifolia, and Karelinia cespica. Lowland meadows provide good forage and good grazingland in the desert region.
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If artificial meadows could be increased to do million hectares, the additional yield of forage grass would be three times the current yield of all Chinese rangelands (Hu, 1989~. At present, 71% of the meat produced in China's agricultural sector derives from consumption of grain.
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. Zhongguo caodi kcxac yu caoye fazhan 23-27.
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