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原文：

日益严重的土地荒漠化不仅导致了生态环境恶化，还降低了资源的质量和数量，影响工农业生产和人民生活。

对民族团结和社会安定造成了严重影响，它已成为制约中国中西地区，特别是西北地区经济、社会发展的重要因素。

在中国，土地荒漠化的后果是：加剧人地矛盾，缩小人类生存空间。中国每年新增人口约1400万，沙化土地年均增加3436平方公里，耕地面积逐年减少，人地矛盾日益突出。大约2.4万村庄、乡镇遭受风沙危害。一些村庄、县城被迫多次搬迁。

其次，加剧自然灾害的频率和程度，恶化生态环境，破坏人类生存条件。土地荒漠化是导致中国近期沙尘暴频发、荒漠化地区生物多样性性骤减、风蚀及黄河中下游旱涝灾害频繁的主要原因之一。荒漠化地区的植被急剧减少，许多物种濒危或趋于灭绝。中国每年输入黄河的16亿吨泥沙中就有12亿吨来自沙漠化地区。

译文：

The increasingly serious land desertification not only leads to the deterioration of the ecological environment, but also reduces the quality and quantity of resources, affecting industrial and agricultural production and people's lives.

Desertification is a serious impact on ethnic unity and social stability. It has become an important factor restricting the economic and social development of central and westren China, especially in northwest China.

In China, the consequences of land desertification are to aggravate the contradiction between man and land and narrow the living space of human beings. Every year, China increases its population by about 14 million, and the desertified land annually increases by 3,436 square kilometers. The arable land area is decreasing year by year, and the contradiction between people and land is becoming increasingly prominent. About 24,000 villages and towns suffered from wind and sand damage. Some villages and counties have been forced to relocate many times.

Secondly, it should aggravate the frequency and degree of natural disasters, deteriorate the ecological environment, and destroy the human living conditions. Land desertification is one of the main reasons for the frequent occurrence of sandstorms, the sudden reduction of biodiversity in desertification areas, wind erosion and the frequent drought and flood disasters in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in China. Vegetation in desertification areas has decreased dramatically, and many species are endangered or tend to become extinct. Of the 1.6 billion tons of sediment China imports into the Yellow River each year, 1.2 billion tons come from desertified areas.