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The amount of land claimed by deserts and shifting sands has decreased overall between 2005 and 2009. China has lost about 660,000 squares miles of land to deserts, a forestry official said. A little more than a third of that can be reclaimed, but at the current slow rate of progress, "it will take 300 years to restore the land that can be treated", the official said.
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