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CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- The 19th World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought falls on June 17, 2013.

Chongqing has been taking a series of measures including reforestation, forest conservation, engineering treatment, etc. to control the stony desertification over the past nine years,  accumulatively renovating 4.3 million mu of stony deserts.
 

Meanwhile, the intensity of stony desertification has also been reduced in some severe and moderate stony deserts. (Translated by Zhang Wenjing, Fathom Language Limited)

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