Northern China is getting affected by deforestation which is resulting in heavy sandstorms. Mongolia has been welcoming northern China’s most dreadful sandstorms in the last five years. Northern China is severely hit by heavy sandstorms in the spring, with conditions deteriorated by deforestation and temperatures rising. It has attempted to protect its several cities by planting extensive new forest known as shelterbelts. Those are barriers developed to protect farmlands from wind damage. Around somewhere 6 billion trees have been planted, which is one of the world’s largest artificial forests. But the sandstorms have unfortunately been rising again since 2017. Many large-scale dust processes have been appearing in these months and it looks like the major sources are mainly the Gobi Desert