Oasis Deserticulture And Sustainable Development For Ulan Buh Desert

Northeastern Ulan Buh Desert area is the biggest desert oasis in Inner Mongolia where reclamation can be tracked back to Han Dynasty. In recent decades there has happened great increase in reclamation and inhabitation. Many research reports are available with respect to land resource development, oasis construction, deserticulture in the area of Ulan Buh, which provide scientific rationales for the development of desert oasis. However, China national economy has been growing very fast since1980s when population, resources, environment and economy and their correlations have changed radically. It is necessary to go though and summarize the theories and practices of deserticulture in Ulan Buh Desert. The author, who has been working in this region for more than25years, has good understanding of advantages in natural and socio economic conditions and problems on the way of development and has been learning sustainable theory during the past3years as a PhD candidate. In this thesis he is trying to expound deserticulture sustainable development theories and address issues of resource and environment in Ulan Buh Desert area.The thesis paper has7chapters:1Introduction;2Ulan Buh Desert;3Theories of sustainable development for oasis deserticulture;4Resources for Ulan Buh oasis deserticulture;5Sustainable development system of Ulan Buh oasis deserticulture;6Strategic models for sustainable development of Ulan Buh oasis deserticulture;7Conclusions and discussions.Oasis deserticulture is defined as a knowledge-intensive industry system that make use of biological resources and advanced technologies to effectively transform solar energy, extend industry chain and make products connected to markets, and realize integration of "Three Benefits"(economic, ecologic and social). Oasis deserticulture stick to7basic principles:harmony of humans and nature; best efficiency; high technology; full use of solar energy; both economic and ecologic benefits; conservation of resource and environment; inter-complementary integration between industries.Natural hazards are the biggest threats to Ulan Buh, while its advantages are water, land and solar resources. A model of fuzzy assessment was used to simulate risks from natural environment, marketing and enterprise management. The results show the overall risk for Ulan Buh oasis deserticulture is at medium level in the3class evaluation modeling. Enterprise management risk is high and other2elements have low risks, that implies more efforts should be made to improve the abilities to use high technologies, to serve each other and perform effectively.Industrial structure is the key to reach the goals of deserticulture. Regression modeling by using statistic data of2010indicates that light industry, animal husbandry and tourism contributed positively to the oasis economy. The order of economic contributions is light industry, animal husbandry and tourism. We also employed Holt model on the software platform of Eviews to predicted the future growth of each industry. Five industrial sectors (farming, animal husbandry, economic forestry, Chinese medicine and tourism) will gain increases from2011to2015. And farming, animal husbandry will enjoy greater increase rates than other three ones.Basic models for constituting Ulan Buh oasis deserticulture were developed. They are:Integration of urban and rural economies; Integration of deserticulture, Ecological construction and economic development; Water-saving facility farming; Ecologic rehabilitation; Grass-forest system; renewable energy development. Ulan Buh oasis deserticulture system include green food industry of organic products, Chinese medicine industry, eco-economic forestry of fruit-vegetable and fruit-grass styles, animal husbandry of milk cow, lamb and other livestock, and tourism.