Weather forecasts show that it may rain every day in Beijing for the next week. This indicates that China's rainfall line is slowly moving northward, and the climate in northern China may become increasingly humid and hot. With the 400-millimeter rainfall line moving northward, will the north return to the ancient climatic conditions?
During the Zhou Dynasty's Spring and Autumn period, the Henan region should have been as humid as the Jiangnan area today, and even had elephants roaming around. The character "Yu" (豫) in Henan's name means an elephant.
Climate change might be beneficial for China. The northward movement of the rainfall line also means that the area for agricultural production is expanding northward, allowing some arid areas in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang to be cultivated into farmland. This would free up farmland in the eastern coastal areas for more valuable production activities.
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