Regulations of Liaoning province on Desert Prevention and Transformation.

These Regulations provide for the prevention of land desertification, the transformation of desertified land and the protection of the safety of the environment in Liaoning province. The Regulations consist of 37 articles.The provincial administrative department in charge of forestry o shall work out the planning of desert prevention and transformation of the whole country. The planning shall take into account the natural conditions such as geological location of the desertified land, land types, vegetation conditions, climate and water resource conditions, land desertification degrees, etc. The administrative departments shall be in charge of monitoring, counting up and analyzing the circumstances of land desertification of the whole country and shall publicize the results regularly. Departments in charge of meteorology shall monitor and forecast drought weather and sandstorm weather and report this to the local people's governments in order to take prevention measures and make disaster forecasts when necessary.