Meaning of shelterbelt | Babel Free

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A row of trees that acts as a windbreak.

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““The shelterbelts here," explained 53-year-old Ma Shoushou, head of the Bayannur League sand-protection station, “are only part of a great network of shelterbelts planted in 320 counties and banners stretching over 11 provinces and autonomous regions in China’s north, northeast and northwest.”

“And then the engines shifted up a note and we began to descend, coming in over a wide plain carved into geometric shapes by lines of dark shelterbelt and long straight roads with their ant hordes of cars and trucks.”

“Now derelict, it is surrounded by a shelterbelt of ancient sycamore trees.”

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