The Gurbantunggut Sandy Desert is located at the transitional belt between Central Asia and Middle Asia. Though its climate is characterized by aridness with scarce precipitation, intense evapotranspiration, windy, strong sunshine and severe variation of temperature, and is a kind of continental desert climate, yet, because of the rather evenness of seasonal distribution of precipitation, with certain amount of rain and snow falling in winter and spring, its vegetation is relatively luxuriant. Most parts of...