China makes remarkable progress in desertification prevention and control

A farmer plants Mongolian Scots pine at Maotuan Village of Jingbian County in Yulin City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, April 5, 2019. Forest coverage rate in Yulin, which suffered from serious soil erosion and desertification, has reached 33 percent thanks to its afforestation efforts over the past 60 years with a result of about 93.24 percent of the desertified land being put under control. The city will plant 690,000 mu (about 46,000 hectares) of trees in 2019. (Xinhua/Liu Xiao)