Recently, monitoring from the Xinjiang Ecology and Geography Research Institute proves that the sandy dust of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is blown to the northern China, Beijing, Japan and even the United States. The high altitude air current brings it there...

Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia are the two sandy dust sources of China. That of Xinjiang's is heavier. In Xinjiang, Taklimakan Desert covers an area of 337,000 square kilometers and is the largest sandy dust source of China. Adding to the desertified land, one thirds of the total and the less vegetation protection, it is the major sand-floating place in the spring...