White Paper on Biodiversity Conservation: Building a Better World Together

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, October 8th, title: Building a better world together-focusing on China's first white paper on biodiversity conservation

Xinhua News Agency reporter Gao Jing

Biodiversity is related to human well-being and is an important foundation for human survival and development
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On the 8th, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on the white paper "China's Biodiversity Conservation" to introduce and interpret China's first biodiversity protection white paper in detail

Biodiversity protection has achieved remarkable results

The fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) will be held soon
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Zhao Yingmin, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, said that the white paper "China's Biodiversity Conservation" is released at this moment, which aims to introduce China's concept and practice in the field of biodiversity conservation to the international community, and enhance the international community’s commitment to China’s biodiversity conservation.

He introduced that China is one of the countries with the richest biodiversity in the world, and one of the first contracting parties to sign and ratify the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity.
China attaches great importance to the protection of biodiversity and continues to advance this work with the times.
Progress, innovation and development have achieved remarkable results and embarked on a path of biodiversity conservation with Chinese characteristics
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The wild population of giant pandas has increased to 1864, and the total number of crested ibis populations has exceeded 5,000.
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The white paper shows the achievements of China's biodiversity conservation through a series of data
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According to Li Chunliang, deputy director of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, nearly 10,000 natural reserves of various types have been established across the country, accounting for about 18% of the land area
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90% of terrestrial ecosystem types, 65% of higher plant communities and 71% of national key protected wild animal and plant species have been effectively protected

Give full play to the role of land and space planning

According to Zhang Zhanhai, chief engineer and spokesperson of the Ministry of Natural Resources, in accordance with the reform and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council's "multiple planning and integration", the current preparation of various territorial and spatial plans at all levels is accelerating, and these plans attach great importance to and emphasize biodiversity conservation
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He introduced the optimization of the ecological space layout in the land and space planning
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Overall layout of ecological, agricultural, and urban functional spaces, protection from the three levels of ecosystems, species, and genetics, comprehensive utilization of both in-situ and ex-situ protection methods, strengthen the protection of key areas of national biodiversity, and build a global biological Diversity protection network

At the same time, the ecological protection red line shall be drawn up in the national land and space planning
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According to the priority order of permanent basic farmland, ecological protection red line, and urban development boundary, the three control lines shall be coordinated, and areas with extremely important ecological functions, natural protected areas, extremely sensitive and fragile ecological areas, and areas with potentially important ecological value shall be classified as ecological Protect the red line and implement strict use control

COP15 will bring opportunities for transformation and change

The white paper pointed out that in the face of the global challenge of biodiversity loss, all countries are a community with a shared future

In response to the severe situation of biodiversity loss, in 2010 the international community formulated the 2011-2020 global biodiversity conservation target, the "Aichi Target"

Zhao Yingmin stated that in September 2020, the fifth edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook issued by the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity pointed out that the global realization of the Aichi Targets is generally not satisfactory, but China’s Aichi Targets The overall performance is better than the global average

He said that the upcoming COP15 will discuss the "Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework" and summarize the progress and experience in the implementation of the global biodiversity goals in the past ten years, which will bring opportunities for transformation and change

He said that when agreeing on the new target strategy, it is necessary to fully absorb the experience and lessons in the implementation of the "Aichi Targets".

The framework should also adhere to the principles of fairness, transparency, and contracting parties, improve implementation mechanisms and guarantee conditions, strengthen science and technology transfer and capacity building, and effectively improve developing countries’ capacity and level of compliance, and strive to build a fair, reasonable, and win-win world.