Yanchi County

Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is located in the transition area from the arid steppe grasslands to the semi-arid region

and is one of the strong desertification areas in the criss-cross agricultural and grazing belt of North China.The pasture was subject to serious degradation in the past 50 years.This paper studies the human activities including indiscriminate exploitation

indiscriminate cutting firewood

indiscriminate reclamation and indiscriminate grazing

which greatly aggravate grassland degradation.Analyses indicate that the activities are resulted from the rapid growth and lower quality of population

low level of socio-economic development

irrational use of land resources and difficulty in policy implementation.To alleviate pasture degradation

we should seek solutions of the activities at first.