China and Mongolia have agreed to further expand cooperation in
meteorology in efforts to fight off the threat of sandstorms posed to both
countries, according to documents issued yesterday at the end of a
meteorological meeting.
Officials attending the three-day conference between China's Meteorological
Bureau and Mongolia's National Agency of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment
Monitoring signed the minutes of the meeting.
According to the documents, the two countries will cooperate in building
three weather stations in Mongolia monitoring sandstorms and share data
collected by the stations.
Research shows the desert in south Mongolia is one of the main sources of
sand storms that hit China every year.
China and Mongolia have strengthened cooperation in meteorology in recent
years. At the last meteorological conference between the two countries in 2005,
documents on 12 cooperation projects were signed.
