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AN icy wind blows through the streets of Beijing as we head for the northeastern part of the capital.We are driving to a neighborhood called Cuigezhuang,which lies in Chaoyang District beyond the Fifth Ring Road.Our destination is the Dongxindian residential area,far from the city center.Its inhabitants are mainly people from other places,and those on low incomes.
THE Fifth Kubuqi International Desert Forum took place last July 28 to 29 in Ordos City in Inner Mongolia.Under the Green Land Partnership Program of the United Nations,and in cooperation with the private sector,China’s government has made remarkable achievements over the last 20 years in fighting desertification in the Kubuqi desert region.During the forum and just five months before the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December,we spoke with Jose Manuel Bar-
