General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Xi Jinping, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits a state forestry area in Linhe District of Bayannur, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, June 6, 2023. Xi made an inspection tour from Monday to Tuesday in the city of Bayannur and presided over a symposium on strengthening the comprehensive prevention and control of desertification and promoting the construction of crucial ecological projects, including the Three-North Shelterbelt Forest Program. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)