China has vast desert land. At the same time，China is also one of the countries that have achieved a progress in combating desertification. Since the beginning of the new century，the state has stepped up efforts to combat desertification，and has launched a series of action plans such as Beijing-Tianjin sand source control，returning farmland to forests and grassland，and grassland ecological protection subsidies. After nearly 20 years of hard work，an improvement has been made in the northern part of China. The trend of seriously desertification，which has continued to deteriorate since the 1960s，has stopped. However，it is not a fundamental reversal. Desertification continues，and it is still the most prominent ecological problem and the biggest obstacle to be beautiful China. The string that governs desertification cannot be loose. At present，our national economy enters a new stage of high-quality development，and the people await eagerly a beautiful ecological environment. The desertification governance model should been changed from “treatment of sand” to “ruling people”，focusing on regulating their environmental behavior and reducing the overall ecological load by improving national economic quality. It is useful to create conditions for naturally recuperation of desertified lands. We must take Xi Jinping’s thought of ecological civilization as a guide to build ecological civilization. A systematic strategies to combat desertification should been adopt：first，to promote green development and to improve economic quality；second，to accelerate the pace of urbanization，promoting the population and economic activities to concentrate in cities and towns；third，to implement key development strategies to concentrate developing activities in a few areas with relatively superior ecological conditions in the central and western regions；fourth，to implement the “National Main Functional Area Planning” and to design basic ecological functional areas（ecological red lines）to maximize ecological lands.