Xinhua selects China pictures of the year 2019

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visits the Babusha Forest Farm, an afforestation area, and learns about the efforts and progress in desertification control in Gulang County, northwest China's Gansu Province, Aug. 21, 2019. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi)