"Those were the days when sandstorms always kept us from going outdoors.

“在那些日子里，沙尘暴总是阻止我们去户外。

Although freight charges dropped slightly after Lunar New Year, the unexpected Suez Canal blockage in March after one of the world's largest container ships got wedged there following a sandstorm, caused a new round of capacity shortages and higher freight costs, a report by the Shanghai International Shipping Institute said.

One of the major events that occurred during the pandemic was the blockage of the Suez Canal on March 23 by a carrier called the Ever Given, whose movement turned erratic due to a sandstorm, and ran aground across the narrow channel.

According to Lankao county's history, for 305 years since 1644, fields were water-logged over 90 times; in the hundred years before 1949, a total of 63 villages were covered entirely by sandstorms.

In 1963, Jiao Yulu, the then-Party secretary of Lankao, consulted several professionals from Shanghai who were then living there, and decided to plant paulownia trees to fight against wind and sandstorms.

"Similar to the PV station, strong winds and sandstorms can easily cause equipment degradation at wind farms, which can lead to insufficient power generation.

The pilot program involved the unmanned autonomous vehicles' ability to deal with complex scenarios such as intersections, narrow roadways, as well as extreme weather conditions like rain, snow and sandstorms.

ai said it achieved safety, stability and zero accidents in complex scenarios such as intersections and narrow roads, as well as in extreme weather conditions such as rain, snow and sandstorms.

However, located on the edge of the desert, the caves have been eroded by wind and sandstorms over time.

The fund will help to launch a sandstorm prevention project in the next three years to improve the surrounding environment of the Mogao Grottoes, said Mercedes-Benz.

In addition, the collaboration includes the building of sand and dust monitoring stations in the Gobi Desert regions of China and Mongolia to conduct sandstorm monitoring and provide early warnings.

Bat-Erdene Bat-Ulzii, Mongolia's minister of environment and tourism, told China Daily during a recent interview that it is necessary for Mongolia and China to step up efforts in better protecting the Gobi Desert as both countries have been experiencing frequent sandstorms in recent years.