Note: This interview is not published in print.
(1) Josh Haner, 黄安伟, Derek Watkins and Jeremy White, 生活在中国庞大的沙海生活在中国广阔沙漠的边缘的人们，面临着因为气候变化而流离失所的境地. 纽约时报中文网, Oct 24, 2016. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016 ... ing-deserts-cn.html
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Josh Haner, Edward Wong, Derek Watkins and Jeremy White, Living in China's Expanding Deserts; People on the edges of the country's vast seas of sand are being displaced by climate change. New York Times, Oct 24, 2016.
Edward Wong, Wrenching Resettlement in China, with More Likely to Come. New York Times, Oct 25, 2016 (front page).
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China "has resettled 1,140,000 residents ['Economic Migrants'] of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region"
"As in much of northern China, most of Ningxia's 26,000 square miles are desert, including the areas chosen for resettlement. Government officials say places like Miaomiao Lake 庙庙湖村 are still an improvement over Xihaigu 西海固[地区的叶家河村] — the vast region of southern and central Ningxia where the Mas and the other migrants came from — because they are closer to highways; to Yinchuan, Ningxia's capital; and to the Yellow River, a major water source that helped give birth to Chinese civilization.
"A third of Ningxia's population — and most of the people who have been resettled — are Hui Muslim. Some Western scholars say Chinese resettlement policies are at least partly aimed at controlling ethnic minority populations, and officials may cite environmental reasons as a cover.