A national desert park will be built in Inner Mongolia's Ulan Buh Dessert, approved by the State Forestry Administration.

Stretching from Alxa League to Bayannur, the Ulan Buh Desert wins a place on China's eight largest desert with an area of 1 million hectares.

The national desert park's construction plan puts the sand control and prevention as the top priority, in order to protect its ecological functions.

Based on its desert resources, the park is planned in an area of 353.04 hectares with the construction period lasting for 17 years. It is designed to be an ecological park that integrates desert landscape with recreational tourism and education activities.

In addition to focusing on the park’s ecological functions, Inner Mongolia also draws up a modern sand industry park in the desert, where the sand industry's scientific and technologic research will develop in hand with sightseeing tourism, so as to build an ecological experience base that will let the public see, know and experience the desert.

At present, Inner Mongolia has divided the Ulan Buh Desert into three parts according to the land utilization, including an optimized development area, a restricted development area and a prohibited development area.