A delegate examines products made from desert plants.

In the Ejin Horo Banner Desertification Project Area lying to the north of the Genghis Khan Mausoleum the delegates learned a new solution for desertification control.

The local government launched a greening project of planting pinus sylvestris around the mausoleum in 2010.

To date, 6.67 million pinus sylvestris trees have afforested a 9,667-hectare area. In 2015, the project area was approved as a national forest park by the State Forestry Administration of China and became the only artificial national afforestation park in sandy land in the country.

About 500 enterprises joined the pinus sylvestris project, in which the trees were cultivated in and transplanted from the Little Horo Operation Area - the previous stop of the inspection tour - according to Song Liping, deputy director of the Banner's forestry bureau.

Efforts are also being made to develop the area into a tourist destination to bring further economic and ecological benefit to the locals.