Vice premier stresses efforts on desertification control, prevention

Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng, also a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, investigates the desertification control and poverty alleviation efforts when he visits a licorice industry demonstration park in Ordos, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Aug. 27, 2019. Han made a two-day inspection tour to Ordos, where he inspected the desertification control, prevention and the ecological construction of the Kubuqi desert on Monday and Tuesday. (Xinhua/Zhang Ling)