LAND DESERTIFICATION(DEGRADATION) AND ITS CONTROL IN LOWER REACH REGION OF HEIHE RIVER

The lower reach of Heihe River, also known as Ejina River, was called Ruoshui Riverin ancient times. This area, although fallen into extremely arid temperate desert in the EjinaBanner, Inner Mongolia, has been a main line of communication since then and formed thefertile Ejina Oasis relying on the water source flowing from the Qilian mountains. However,in the recent years the land desertification (degradation) in this area has developed rapidly,