The client of Chinanews.com, June 2 (Lang Lang), on the 2nd, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment held a press conference, which revealed that according to the fifth national desertification and desertification monitoring results, the desertification land area of ​​the country was 2.116 million square kilometers. The area of ​​desertified land is 1.712 million square kilometers. According to the results of the third rocky desertification test in karst areas, the existing rocky desertification land area in the karst areas of the country is 100,700 square kilometers.