From June 6 to 5, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, inspected Bayannur City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, presided over a symposium on strengthening comprehensive desertification control and promoting the construction of key ecological projects such as the "Three Norths" and delivered an important speech.

On the morning of the 6th, Xi Jinping came to the state-owned Xinhua Forest Farm in Linhe District, Bayannur City, to learn about the construction of the "Three North" shelter forest system.



The "Three Norths" project spans 13 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in northwest, north and northeast China, and has been launched since 1978 and is expected to be completed in 2050.

Over the past 40 years since the construction of the "Three Norths" project, the forest coverage rate of the project area has increased from 1977.5% in 05 to 2020.13% in 84, building a green Great Wall in the northern Xinjiang of the motherland to resist wind and sand, maintain water and soil, protect agriculture and promote grazing, and achieve huge ecological, economic and social benefits, becoming a successful model of global ecological governance.

General Secretary Xi Jinping attaches great importance to land greening, has participated in afforestation many times, visited the field and made important instructions.

On April 2023, 4, Xi Jinping braved the rain to participate in the capital's voluntary tree-planting activity in Dongba Central Park, Chaoyang District, Beijing.



On August 2021, 8, Xi Jinping inspected Moon Mountain at Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm in Chengde City, Hebei Province.


Saihanba National Forest Park (August 2022, 8, drone photo).



On June 2020, 6, Xi Jinping listened to a report on the ecological protection and comprehensive improvement of Helan Mountain in the eastern foothills of Helan Mountain, Xixia District, Yinchuan City.


The Huangtunzi Ecological Restoration and Treatment Project in the eastern foothills of Helan Mountain in Chonggang Town, Pingluo County, Shizuishan City, Ningxia (pictured on August 2022, 8).



On August 2019, 8, Xi Jinping inspected the local sand control afforestation and ecological protection at the Babu Sand Forest Farm in Gulang County, Wuwei City, Gansu Province.


The sand control people and people in the Babu Sand Forest Farm in Gulang County, Gansu Province, carry out the "grass square sand pressing" operation (taken on March 2020, 3, drone photo).



On July 2019, 7, Xi Jinping inspected the growth of trees along the rugged forest protection trail in the Ma'anshan Forest Farm Forest Area of Karaqin Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia.


View of Maanshan Village, Karaqin Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia (taken on July 2019, 7, drone photo).



On May 2016, 5, Xi Jinping inspected the Xishui National Forest Park of Shangganling Forestry Bureau in Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province, and told forest farm staff to protect forest resources.

Liu Hongwei, a ranger from the Atinghe Forest Farm Branch of Wuyiling Forestry Bureau Co., Ltd. in Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province, looks out at the fire watchtower (taken on June 2021, 6, drone photo).

At present, the ecology of the Sanbei region is still fragile.

Strengthening the comprehensive prevention and control of desertification and deeply promoting the construction of key ecological projects such as the "Three Norths" are related to China's ecological security, the construction of a strong country, and the sustainable development of the Chinese nation.

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