Doctor Wang Xuejing advises that, when possible, people should stay indoors and close the Windows during sandstorms.
It's like two hours of national celebration fireworks, only with flying swords and sandstorms, raging battles and mystical palaces rising out of the desert.
67-year-old Shi Guangyin - a farmer, who has fought with sandstorms since his childhood and, was awarded an "outstanding farmer" by FAO in 2002 - has played a lead role in this effort.
Rooted over 50 meters down the ground, they thrive in hostile environments, defying droughts, sandstorms and salinization.
Meanwhile, Lanzhou Morning Post reports severe sandstorms and strong winds hit two counties in Gansu called Minqi and Liangzhou on Tuesday afternoon.
Farmland erosion and desertification resulted in Beijing being hit with 11 sandstorms in 2000, prompting Mr Zhu to wonder whether the advancing desert might force him to relocate the capital.
DRS 'infrared imaging technology enables soldiers to see target detail even through heavy obscurants such as sandstorms and fog.
As a stopping point on the famous Silk Road, Loulan is believed to have been gradually covered over by sandstorms from AD 200 to AD 400.
Those sandstorms whipping across China each spring can be bad for your health.
Recent studies by Chinese archaeologists have shown that sandstorms are reducing sections of the wall in Gansu to "mounds of dirt" and that they may disappear entirely in 20 years.
The Chinese government has committed to spend Renminbi 56.8 billion (about Singapore Dollars 12.376 billion) to curb desertification and lessen sandstorms between 2002 and 2008.
Eastern Xinjiang, western Inner Mongolia and western Gansu will also be blanketed by floating dust with other regions suffering sandstorms.
Other parts of Xinjiang also experienced some weird weather. Akesu region's lowest temperature dropped to 4 degrees Celsius with sandstorms sweeping some parts of the region.
Yeah, and there are also sandstorms in March and April. When the sandstorms blow, it's gloomy and dark.
Dry and cold in winter, when weather and sandstorms.
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