Located in the southwest of Inner Mongolia autonomous region in Northern China and surrounded by the Yellow River in the west, north and east, Ordos covers a total area of 86.8 thousand square kilometers. In addition, Ordos is also an arid and semi-arid transition zone, where Kubuqi Desert is located in the north, Muus Sandy Land in the south, gully and hilly area in the east and undulated plateau area in the west.

In the face of severe desertification and sandification, Ordos attaches great importance to the prevention and control of desertification and unremittingly carries out ecological construction centered on afforestation.

To conclude the sand control wisdom in Ordos, the first thing to be mentioned is the impelling security and governance measures by government.

Organizational leadership was strengthened. Priority was given to governance of desertified and in ecological construction by the municipal Party Committee and Government. Local administrative leadership responsibility system was implemented, namely the document for objective responsibility was signed by each level and governance tasks were decomposed and implemented, so as to promote efficient governance of desertified land.

All citizens were mobilized to participate in prevention and control of desertification. The national key ecological construction projects were combined with greening of key areas and compulsory tree planting by the whole nation, and cadres and workers at city-, banner- and town-levels were mobilized to participate in compulsory tree planting. Extensive publicity was carried out through annual "World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought","Law Propaganda Day", "Arbor Day" and other important festivals as well as other channels and forms such as television, radio, newspapers and SMS, so that a favorable atmosphere was created for the whole society to understand, support and participate in the prevention and control of desertification.

Basedon the city’s natural and geographical conditions, construction of key forestry ecological projects was organically combined with the "Three-district Planning" for development of agriculture and animal husbandry. Projects were preferentially arranged in areas suffering from serious hazards of sandstorms and soil erosion in the restricted development zones and prohibited development zones through overall arrangement and rational distribution,combining with greening of key areas and construction of raw material forestbases, so as to maximize the role of engineering construction. For the hillyand gully regions in the east, priority was given to soil and water conservation. Artificial afforestation and enclosed cultivation were used, so as to improve the percentage of forestry and grass coverage and reduce soilerosion.

For Muus Sandy Land and Kubuqi Desert, the control effort was made by following the order of priority and urgency; for the governance layout, enclosure at the edge of desert (land), cutting off in the middle by roads and water, and partition such as lowland, bottomland and oasis between the hills were used for governance. For the measures, enclosure, aerial seeding afforestation, trees,shrubs, grass, belt, network and area as well as biological and engineering measures were combined for comprehensive governance.

For the arid area in the west, priority was given to protection of natural native vegetation; hill (desert) closing for forestation was used, complemented with artificial afforestation, so as to construct conservation oriented eco-economic zone.

For Wuding River Basin and the alluvial flatlands flooded by the Yellow River, great efforts were made in construction of shelter forest for farmland, protective belt along an embankment, bank protection forest, commercial timber production forests and economic forests centered on the development strategy along river. Green passage project was implemented along highways and railways. Industrial and mining enterprises adhered to "governance of one mountainand one ditch under one mine and one enterprise".

For downtown, parks, scenic areas, ecological immigration areas, new countryside and new pastoral areas, urban green space and greenbelt were energetically developed. Greening around towns and villages and street greening were accelerated in combination of village greening matching projects for new rural construction and "construction of beautiful countryside", so as to improve the ecological environment as well as the people's production and life quality.