This article interlinks with the AS course for arid environments section 3, which is conflicts, there is a conflict between the need for development and to urbanise areas of the Gobi desert the plan is slicing the tops off 700 low-level, barren mountains and filling in the valleys to create a 10-square-mile base for "Lanzhou New City," however in the rush for this development, there has been a sever miss conduct and bypassing of environmental needs.
Hemmed in by hills and the Yellow River, and under government orders not to use arable land, the fast-growing city of Lanzhou has chosen to literally flatten the natural obstacles in the way of progress.
Due to the rapid growth of China's population there is a severe shortage of housing available and the short term housing solution is the development in the Gobi desert, and this has implications socially environmentally and economically, as this article linked below highlights, with regards to the development of the city of Lanzhou.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/02/02/china-mountain-flattening/1881505/
G.Cox
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