The 2024 International Congress on an Eco-Security System for All People along the Belt and Road kicks off in Shennongjia

On May 27, the 2024 International Congress on an Eco-Security System for All People along the Belt and Road kicked off in Shennongjia Forestry District in Central China's Hubei Province.

During the Congress, environmental experts and scholars from around the world deliveredinsightful keynote speeches on the theme of "an Eco-Security System for All People along the Belt and Road", in an effort to promote the harmonious coexistence of man and nature and build a community with a shared future for mankind together.

Ouyang Zhiyun, foreign academician of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, director of the CAS Research Center for Eco-Environment Sciences, and director of the National Park Research Institute, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, elaborated on the theme of "Building the National Park System for Safeguarding the Ecological Conditions for Future Generations". He said that in recent years, China has made great achievements in biodiversity conservation, and the government attaches great importance to biodiversity conservation. However, biodiversity conservation in China still faces many challenges. Biodiversity conservation requires the joint efforts of the whole society and comprehensive implementation of policies.

Komil Tojibaev, academician of Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan and director of Tashkent Institute of Botany, delivered a speech entitled "Flora of Central Asia and the importance of protected areas in the conservation of endangered species" and called for strengthening regional plant diversity research and the Central Asian-China Transboundary Biodiversity Hotspot program, and integrating them into the practice of jointly building "an Eco-Security System for All People along the Belt and Road".

On the Congress, the initiative of jointly building an Eco-Security System for All People along the Belt and Road was officially launched. Environmental experts and scholars from 46 countries and 44 online countries lit up the progress map of all countries in the world together, aiming at a common goal that no country is left behind in building a community with a shared future for mankind through ecological protection.