GUIYANG, February 26 -- China actively promotes Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) to apply from the China's "South-South Cooperation Fund" to combat desertification control in 8 economies in Central Asia and Africa, with a planned funding of about $2 million, said Zhang Jianlong, Administrator of National Forestry and Grassland Administration of China at the intersession meeting of 13th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNCCD held in Guiyang, Guizhou province.

GUIYANG, February 26 -- Zhang Jianlong, Administrator of National Forestry and Grassland Administration of China (NFGA) met with Ibrahim Thiaw, the newly appointed Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in China’s Guiyang city on February 26, 2019.

BEIJING, February 19 -- Peng Youdong, Deputy Administrator of National Forestry and Grassland Administration of China met with Sultan bin Salmeen Al Mansouri, Qatar Ambassador to China in Beijing on February 19, 2019. The bilateral parts exchanged views on the cooperation progress since the bilateral forestry cooperation agreement signed in 2012. Both of them agreed to strengthen communications and deepen wildlife protection cooperation in the future.

CHANGCHUN, February 22 -- The National Wetland Research Center is to be established in cooperation between National Forestry and Grassland Administration of China and Chinese Academy of Science. They signed a cooperation agreement on February 21, 2019. Based on the agreement, both parts could play full to their advantages to provide technical backup for China’s wetland protection management, ecological restoration and implementation of international conventions.

BEIJING, February 13, Xinhua -- Chinese Vice Premier Han Zheng on Wednesday stressed solid efforts to further protect biological diversity.