That launch marked the inauguration of a new space centre, at an unidentified desert location, which included an underground control station and satellite launch pad.

那次发射也标志着一个新航天中心的落成。而该新航天中心坐落在隐秘的沙漠中，有一个地下控制台和卫星发射台。

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All subjects need experiment. In every experiment there is different degree error, it is the same to the forestry and desert control subject.

各门学科都离不开实验，一切实验都有不同程度的误差，对于林业和治沙学科更是如此。

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It is the only correct way to control desert, and a breach of scientific progress in sand control.

综合治沙是防沙治沙的唯一正确之路，是今后治沙科技进步的突破口。

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Mali's March 22 coup precipitated the fall of the country's north to a mix of secular and Islamist rebels, who now control a desert region the size of France at the heart of the Sahara.

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France says its troops will start pulling out of Mali in March, and hand over control of the vast northern desert area to African forces.

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Yet there is speculation that it could be retaliation for France's recent intervention in Mali, where Islamist groups and members of al-Qaeda's North Africa branch - al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) - had taken control of the country's vast northern desert region.

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