Prevention and Control Mode of Desertification in China＇s State Energy Group Shendong Mining Area with Annual Coal Output of 200 Million Tons

According to the strategic goal of sustainable development,construction and management for the construction of Shendong mining area with ecological safety,the ecological restoration principle of ＂ control protects development and development promotes control＂ for desertification prevention and control was adopted,and engineering measures,plant greening measures,and enclosure management and protection measures were taken to prevent and control desertification in the mining area based on careful detailed investigation and accurate planning and design in the early period. After 32 years,the desertification ecological landscape environment of the mining area has undergone a qualitative change,and the vegetation coverage has increased from 3%-8% to above 60% after the development. The former desertification land has become a modern green energy base that has produced 200 million tons of coal every year. The construction and management mode of an ecologically safe and modernized green coal mining area built by Shendong in the desertification region of northwestern China shows that taking appropriate comprehensive ecological restoration construction technology and management measures that integrate engineering,plants and enclosure management and protection is an effective technical and management paradigm for the construction of a modernized green large-scale coal mining area in China＇s arid and semi-arid regions.

Effect of Land Use and Land Cover Change on the Changes in Net Primary Productivity in Karst Areas of Southwest China:A Case Study of Huanjiang Maonan Autonomous County

Karst areas in southwest China have experienced significant land cover and land use change(LUCC)due to utilization for human activity and a comprehensive rocky desertification control project(RDCP)since 2008.It is important to quantify the effect of LUCC on ecosystem productivity in this region for assessing the overall benefit of this ecological restoration project.In this study,we used using MODIS land cover and NPP products to investigate the relative contribution of LUCC to the change in net primary productivity(NPP)during 2008–2013 in Huanjiang County,one of first one hundred pilot counties to implement RDCP.Our results show that NPP increased in 95.53%of the county,and the average growth of NPP in non-rocky desertification area was higher than in rocky desertification or potential rocky desertification areas.LUCC has an important contribution(25.23%)to the NPP increase in the county,especially in the LUCC area(70.97%),which increased the average NPP by 3.9%and 10.5%,respectively.Across the six RDCP regions in the county,the average increase in NPP for the vegetation restoration measure of governed karst area is significantly greater than in the ungoverned karst area,and the positive change in NPP increased with the increasing implementation area of the vegetation restoration measure.