For decades, China has made afforestation efforts to attempt to curb the desertification of areas around the Gobi Desert as it expands, and to help fight global warming. The country's nationwide forest coverage reached by 20.36 percent in 2008, up from 13.92 percent in 1992 and it is projected to hit 21.66 percent by 2015, according to figures from the State Forestry Administration (SFA).
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