Last week, the first spring dust storm of the year hitted Beijing.

Because the vegetation is damaged on account of the mining or construction, causing the desert in the northwest is gradually expanding, leading to serious desertification and frequent sandstorms.

Every spring the dust storm hits Beijing and surrounding areas, it is characteristic weather of Beijing now. Few people think of China as a desert nation, yet it is among the world’s largest. More than 27% of the country comprises useless sand.

A Ministry of Science and Technology task force says desertification costs China about $2-3 billion annually, while 800 km of railway and thousands of kilometers of roads are blocked by sedimentation.

An estimated 110 million people suffer firsthand from the impacts of desertification and, by official reports, another 2,500 sq km turns to desert each year.

The larggest dust storm happened in 2002, when I was a sophomore in university. That day, I was in the class, my classmates gave a great exclamation: “look at the sky”, we found the sky turned black and red, for a time, sands owned the skies.

After that year, the Central Government at all levels are greatly concerned about the urban afforesting and greening. The next 6 years, the desert storm had improved, but it still happened every year.

The external link: Beijing’s Desert Storm By Ron Gluckman - The desert is sweeping into China’s valleys, choking rivers and consuming precious farm land.

There is an interesting letter on the net, it expresses the mire of poverty of Chinese common people.

My friend Jessie translate it into English, and empower me to blog it on my blog, thanks Jessie very much.

Mr.Hu and Mr.Wen,

I hope you two can hear from me though NPC & CPPCC are going.

I wish to buy a house, but the house price keeps rising; I want to buy a car, but the oil price keeps increasing; I want to buy some meet, but the meet price is going up.

Therefore, I think it is alright to have instant noodles, it is disappointing that the price rises. Accordingly, I become a Buddha, the Buddha says: you succeed finally!

Children’s song: What the Great Wall it is! What a sunny Summer!

GDP keeping rising year after year, it is said that overall people are struggling for the relatively comfortable life. Pay is as short as eyebrow, price is as long as hair. Looking into the building, imagine that how many square meters I can buy for one year.

Avarice increases with wealth, banks are just the fair weather friends with them. People administer the lord is the overlord, Industry and Commerce are two wolves.

Children’s song: Electricity is the tiger, water is the Hades, Police, Public Prosecutor and Judge are blackguards.

White-angels are black-hearted, traffic polices are like leeches. Officers like taking bribes; People who are powerful have no conscience. Education Ministry charge arbitrarily as well as Telecommunication Office, the People are like lambs.

Children’s song: We workers are also powerful, 30 million come off duty together. One billion people suffering from hardship make the rich flock of wolves.

The present situation in China is as follows: more than five thousand to give birth to a child; more than thirty thousand to choose a school; more than ten thousand to buy a square meter; work hard to get only more than one thousand; more than ten thousand to cremate and bury.

In conclusion, eight words: hard to survive, hard to die. Please pass on and let leaders know the voice from their people…

Sincerely

Who can tell me how to do? I am not in the mood to continue this blog. Yesterday is the one year birthday of this blog, I have blogging 365 days.

But, I noticed my domain will be expired next year, and more serious is I cannot renew this domain name :(

In 2006, I registered this domain by Yahoo, and bought the web hosting from Yahoo in 2007. Then, I found Yahoo’s Web Hosting always having problems, so I canceled its.

I joined hostmonster laster, and in my option, I canceled web host but I still owned my domain, is that the case? No, that’s not the case.

Yahoo canceled my domain, I can’t manage my domain in Yahoo, and can not get the authorization codes, and can not transfer the domain to the other places.

It means shangning.net will be expired next year, I don’t know how to do.

I asked Yahoo help center, they doesn’t answer me. I searched this problem in Google, found a lot of webmasters have the same question. They all believe Yahoo is the worst supplier of domain names.

So, how do you think about it? What can I do? I am really confused.

Last week, I posted Google Lego Calendar has arrived, the calendar was sent from google, because I entered for the Guge (Google China) writing competition.

A short while ago, I found my writing came over here at Google Adsense China Blog. I think you can not understand the writting, because it is written in Chinese.

The writting’s content about Google Adsense and Me. I have joined it more than three years, it is a good plan for webmasters and bloggers.

In China, the most popular sponsors are: Google Adsense, Baidu Advertisment Federation, Narrow Advertisment Federation, and Yahoo Aliunion. I tried them all and found Google Adsense is the best for my blog.

Actually, I registered the Affiliate Program of Amazon last week, it’s more advance I believe, but it is harder to make money, I have to pay more time in my blog to get more readers :)

I was happy to entered for the Guge (Google China) writing competition last week, and recieved a calendar gift from Google China yesterday.

This is the first time to recieve gift from google for me. Google seems to enjoy send presents to its fans, if you search Google Gift in Flickr or Google, the result will shocking you that there are lots of different gifts of Google.

Google is bountiful of gift, I think that’s a good way to propagate their brand. Because the production cost of gift is low, and the receiver is bound to blogging the lucky on their blog, just as I do :D

I am reading a piece of information, the trade price of green Chinese onion has risen by 641.2% against the same period of last year, but 26.7% of the workman has not increase wages in the last 5 years.

China, in recent months, goods are on the advance. Take the green Chinese onion for instance, it costs 5.4 to 7.6 RMB per kilos, against the same period of last year, it just costed 0.7 to 1.0 RMB per kilos.

The prices of vegetables, meat, fruit and some other things are all going up, the price has been the talk of the town.

The NPC and CPPCC sessions reported that Interim price control necessary too:

China’s interim price intervention announced in mid-January is necessary and in accord with the law, said Ma Kai, the top macro-economic planner on Thursday.

“As a responsible government, we will not turn a blind eye to the situation”, said the minister in charge of the National Development and Reform Commission, referring to the price hikes since mid 2007, which was worsened by the snow havoc before the Spring Festival.

Last year, China’s consumer price index (CPI) rose 4.8 percent year-on-year, the highest since 1997 and well above the 3 percent target, mainly due to rises in the cost of food and housing.

I searched about the rank of CPI, and found some interesting data:

- When CPI is greater than 3%, it means INFLATION;
- When CPI is greater than 5%, it means SERIOUS INFLATION.