The plan, announced by the State Council of China last year, aims to cover an area of 5.5 million square kilometers with rain or artificial snow, and the area to prevent hail operations is more than 580,000 square kilometers.
As a final result, they strive to reach “advanced international standards” by 2035 as well as better in “prevention of security risks”.
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From the government they confirmed it The program will also serve in disaster relief, agricultural production, forest and grassland fires, and drought control.
According to the official Xinhua News Agency, an inaugural flight has already been launched under this project with A plane ‘capable of raining down’:
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China is spreading out greatly #UAV #Ganlin-1 for artificial precipitation; It is intended to perform weather modification tasks in complex weather conditions. pic.twitter.com/PtnSGDdrX1
– China Xinhua News (XHNews) January 9, 2021
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Many countries use this technology (cloud seeding). China has been using it for a long time, and India has used it in sub-Saharan Africa and also in the northeast of the continent, where there are very difficult droughts. Or Australia, for example, ”said Dhanasree Jayaram, a climate expert at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education in Karnataka, in a press release.
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The procedure consists of spraying substances such as silver iodide onto the clouds, in an effort to make sedimentation happen. According to John C. Moore, chief scientist in the School of Earth System Sciences and Global Change at Peking University, There are very few scientific articles written about its effectiveness..
Neighboring countries fear China will use the project:One of the main concerns is that China is implementing technology on a large scaleIf this has an effect on the phenomenon of the summer monsoons in India, for example, said the expert from the Manipal Academy of Higher Education in the state of Karnataka, India.
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