An excavator shovels soil in the Kubuqi Desert in Dalad Banner in Ordos city, in North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region. The Dalad solar base is being installed in the Kubuqi Desert, the seventh largest desert in China. The planned installed annual capacity of the solar farm will be 2 million kilowatts and it will cover 100,000 mu, or 6,667 hectares, with a total investment of 15 billion yuan ($2.1 billion). [Photo/chinanews.com]