Citations:Loess Plateau

English citations of Loess Plateau

• [1975 January 13 [1975 January 10], Chao Feng-nien [赵丰年], “Persist in Continuing the Revolution Under the Dictatorship of the Proletariat--Some Experiences in Developing the Movement To Learn From Tachai in Agriculture [坚持无产阶级专政下的继续革命——开展农业学大寨运动的一些经验]”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China‎^[1], volume I, number 8, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Red Flag, No 1, 1975, starting on p. 57 and Peking Domestic Service, translation of original in Mandarin, →ISSN, →OCLC, page E 7‎^[2], page 目录:

  But things differed in Fuku County, Shensi Province. Located on the loess plateau, the county is full of barren hills, and therefore it is very difficult to develop production.]

• 1984, Vaclav Smil, The Bad Earth: Environmental Degradation in China‎^[3], →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17:

  Devastated forests in some provinces and autonomous regions in that area are twice the size of afforested land (Xinhua, June 10, 1979, JPRS 73796), and in some counties nine times; where millions of trees are to be planted before 1985 as a “strategic measure” to control erosion and desertification, animal or tractor-drawn carts can be seen on the roads, loaded with indiscriminately and illegally cut trunks, branches, and roots (Jiang 1979), and on the already heavily eroded Loess Plateau and in the Wei He (Wei River) valley unscrupulous lumbering has not only not ceased, but is actually increasing in some places.

• 1993, Dazhong Wen, “Soil erosion and conservation in China”, in David Pimentel, editor, World Soil Erosion and Conservation‎^[4], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 64:

  The Loess Plateau
  China’s Loess Plateau is the most widely distributed loess area on earth. This loess is a deep deposit of paleosol, and the plateau is most systematically and completely developed for crops (Zhu Xianmo, 1986).

• 1994, Zhao Songqiao, Geography of China‎^[5], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48:

  First excavated in A.D. 1963 at Lantian (near Xi’an) on the warm temperate Loess Plateau, the Lantian people lived about 800,000 to 600,000 years before the present.

• 2012 November 5, Ruth Morris, “Every drop counts”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[6], archived from the original on November 26, 2015‎^[7]:

  In her home on the parched Loess Plateau, Niu Xiaomei washes tomatoes in a shallow basin of water. Her kitchen has a traditional, tiled stove with two vats for cooking - but no water tap.
  "After using the water to wash vegetables, we pour the water into a basin, for the animals," she says, as she pours the used water into bowl on the floor. It's one of many recycling techniques she uses to stretch her water supply as far as possible. On the Loess Plateau, every drop of water is precious.

• 2014 October 10, “Landslide in northwest China kills 19 road workers”, in AP News‎^[8], archived from the original on 01 June 2022‎^[9]:

  Yan’an is part of the Loess Pateau, known for its loose, sandy soil deposited by wind.