Ways and Measures of Restoring Vegetation for Controlling Soil and Water Loss on the Loess Plateau of China

Abstract

On the Loess Plateau much more urgent problem is how to reduce soil and water loss via restoring vegetation, and turn the weak ecology to a fine state. This is also a dominant and long-term task faced in whole mid-western China. By comprehensive and perennial researches on this area, the scientists in North-western Institute of Soil and Water Conservation summarize a series of ways and measures to recover the vegetation on the Loess Plateau. The main work is to select those tree and grass species which finally fit the local eco-environment, to quickly close the barren hills and plateaus .via aerosowing tech. and so on. At the same time, we also give considerations to the immediate economic interests and long-term productivity in order to mobilize all positive factors of local masses for conserving and rebuilding the vegetation. This paper is a brief introduction on the works under this certain background which may interest the colleagues in the world.