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23-July-2010<br />

Field Excursion (continued with the activity of July 22)<br />

7:30-9:30 Visiting Qingtu Lake, a severely degraded oasis l<strong>and</strong>scape<br />

9:30-12:30 Leave Qingtu Lake for Wuwei, <strong>and</strong> visiting Hongyashan Desert Reservoir on the way<br />

12:30-13:30<br />

13:30-14:30<br />

14:30-15:30<br />

Group 1 (to<br />

Degraded Minqin<br />

Oasis)<br />

Lunch at Wuwei<br />

Visiting Leitai Han Dynasty Tumulus at Wuwei<br />

Visiting White-tower Temple (the place where the official agreement was signed that<br />

Tibetan was unified into China more than 700 years ago)<br />

15:30-16:30 Visiting Wenmiao Temple (fast food will be supplied with the travel)<br />

16:30-20:00<br />

Return from Wuwei to Lanzhou<br />

8:00-10:30 From Lanzhou to Beishan Experimental Station of Rain-harvesting Agriculture at the<br />

Loess Plateau<br />

10:30-12:00 Group 2 (to Beishan Visiting the Station<br />

12:00-13:30 Experimental Station Lunch (local farmer’s food)<br />

13:30-14:30 of Rain-harvesting Leave Beishan for Xinglongshan Mountain (a unique well-vegetation scenery)<br />

14:30-15:30 Agriculture) Visiting Xinglongshan Mountain<br />

15:30-17:00 Leave Xinglongshan Mountain for Lanzhou<br />

17:00-18:30<br />

Supper at Tsuiying Hotel (for key speakers) <strong>and</strong> Oriental Hotel (for the delegates)<br />

12<br />

You-Cai Xiong<br />

Xuzhe Zhao<br />

Xiaojun Hu<br />

Feng Zhang<br />

Feng-Min Li<br />

Jiansheng Ye<br />

Changan Liu<br />

Xiaofeng Zhang<br />

Notes: Based on our underst<strong>and</strong>ing on the experience <strong>and</strong> preference of key speakers, we suggest that all the participants including ordinary delegates <strong>and</strong> key<br />

speakers will be divided into two groups. Group 1 will travel to Minqin <strong>and</strong> Wuwei for investigating degraded oasis agricultural l<strong>and</strong>scape. The key speakers of this<br />

group include Prof. Kadambot Siddique, Prof. Neil Turner, Prof. Richard Hobbs, Dr. Jairo Palta, Dr. Qifu Ma, Prof. Zed Rengel <strong>and</strong> Dr. Zhenghua Zhang <strong>and</strong> Dr.<br />

Xinhua He <strong>and</strong> some others. Group 2 consists of Prof. Don Bullock, Prof. Yantai Gan, Prof. Huilian Xu, Prof. Changsheng Li, Dr. Sasha Jenkins, Dr. Gavan<br />

McGrath, Dr. Yajie Song, Prof. Jiaguo Qi <strong>and</strong> some others. This arrangement is based on the principle in which all the participants who have never been to Beishan<br />

Experimental Station of Dryl<strong>and</strong> Agriculture will be suggested to Beishan Station. The rest of participants will go to Minqin <strong>and</strong> Wuwei for oasis agricultural

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