On the occasion of Environment Day, Xi Jinping deployed the construction of the Great Green Wall. 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.

He presided over a symposium on strengthening comprehensive desertification control and promoting construction of key ecological projects such as the "Three Norths" Xi Jinping said it was a rolling stone uphill process, and the slightest relaxation would lead to repetition.