Strong vitality of 'spirit of Three-North' the secret behind China's 'Great Green Wall'

IN early summer, the state-owned Xinhua forest farm in the Linhe district of Bayannur, in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is lush with greenery, casting a shade on the sand.

These seemingly ordinary trees have been gazed upon by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, for a long time.