Water tables are dropping by a metre or more every year across much of northern China.
All of the water problems of northern China seem to come into sharp focus here, 70 miles from the Yellow River, and even closer to the desert.
He suggests that farmers trying to grow thirsty grain in dry northern and western parts of China should be persuaded to change their crops.
It plans to open an assembly plant in Qingdao, a major port in northern China and the site of the 2008 Olympic sailing regatta, to customize yachts for China's market.
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Art historians at the University of Chicago have digitally recreated another Buddhist cave temple complex at Xiangtangshan in northern China, where many of the site's original sculptures have been lost or removed.
Influences of Buddhism and Confucianism can be found - again relics of waves of migration traceable to lands as distant as northern India and China - and the animistic beliefs of the indigenous Balinese remain a guiding influence for much of daily life.
Great swathes of farmland in northern China devoted to growing wheat will over time shift to high-value crops, such as vegetables and fruit.
The four units of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, owned by the Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, were gravely damaged in the 9.0 March 11 earthquake and resulting tsunami that took the lives of more than 10, 000 people and has the northern part of Japan, and its neighbors China and Russia, on high alert for nuclear radiation leaks.
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On Dec. 13, 2006 Home Depot said it will acquire the Home Way, a chain of 12 stores in northern China.
Central America, most of Africa, much of south Asia and northern China could all be hit by droughts, storms and floods and otherwise made miserable.
Backroads, a California company that offers bike tours of China, Bali and northern Thailand, lets participants cycle at their own pace and take a break from biking with sidetrips like elephant trekking or whitewater rafting (Tel: 1-510-527-1555).
It came, unexpectedly, on a side trip into the mountains of northern Vietnam, near the border with China and Laos.
Two of the world's biggest clusters of manufacturers are in northern Greece and southern China, where pelts are cut and assembled into garments and accessories, often in family-run businesses.
The northern region around Dehui is sometimes called the Iowa of China.
In a processing plant in Qingdao on China's northern coast, scores of workers pair off to remove the head and guts of Alaskan pollock.
The restaurant is in a northern Beijing suburb popular with young executives, representative of China's surging wealth and the size of its business class.
But planners failed to consider the limits of the city's water supply and Cangzhou now faces one of the most severe water shortages in northern China.
China rolls out the welcome mat on its soil, for example recently inviting Arab leaders to Yinchuan, in northern-central part of the country, for the 3rd China-Arab States Economic and Trade Forum.
Two problems: First, the logistics of shipping the oil, which is on the Atlantic side of South America, to the Liaoyang refinery in northern China, are challenging.
Feng Deng, managing director of Northern Light Venture Capital in Beijing, paints the new scenario for China.
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Both China and India already have polar research stations in the northern part of Norway, as do most of the other observer nations.
The Mongols, while indeed being the fierce horsemen of legend, did, having established their empire which stretched from Northern China to Western Europe, then rule it as a free trade area.
For China, the main transportation focus is the NSR, which runs along the northern coastline of Siberia from Novaya Zemlya to the Bering Strait.
The Earth does not have enough clean water, good pasture land or even livable space along coasts to have everyone in, say, the poorer areas of western China and central India living and driving the way we do in, say, northern Virginia.
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