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China, Japan cooperate in ecological defenses for Beijing

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and its Japanese partners signed here Friday an agreement to expand ecological defenses for Beijing and adjacent areas.

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The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and its Japanese partners signed here Friday an agreement to expand ecological defenses for Beijing and adjacent areas.

According to the second-phase agreement on the project, Toyota Motor Company will donate 150 million Japanese yen to plant trees in Fengning County of north China's Hebei Province.

The scheme, which is scheduled from April 2004 to March 2007, will cover some 1,000 hectares of land, a key source for sandstorms that plague Beijing.

The Chinese and Japanese sides have carried out the first phaseof the project, covering an area of 1,500 hectares.

Since 2001, about a dozen serious sandstorms have affected manycities in North China.

At the signing ceremony, Shi Erwei, vice CAS president, encouraged scientists to develop technology to alleviate ecological deterioration.

Source: Xinhua

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