2014 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought: Building a System for Combating Desertification to Achieve Human Needs in 50 Years

Xinhuanet Beijing, June 17 (Reporter Liu Yangchi and Zhang Yujie) June 20th this year is the twentieth World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. Desertification has become a global ecological problem. Experts point out that inter-regional cooperation is The Fundamental Guarantee for the Success of Desertification Control Construction.

On the 17th, experts from China, Russia, Uzbekistan, Nigeria and other countries conducted in-depth exchanges and discussions on desertification control and other issues in Beijing.
These experts pointed out that desertification is a matter of geography. It is the only way for the world to combat desertification through international cooperation in combating desertification. It is of great theoretical value and urgent practical significance to establish a project to combat desertification through cooperation among several countries and explore global construction modes and approaches.
"By establishing an anti-desertification engineering system, we are expected to reach the goal of combating desertification in the next 50 years," said Hu Yuegao, director of the China Research Center for Desertification Control.