09 June 2026, Beijing: A information report from China.org.cn on 2026 ‘Sci-Tech Empowering Rural Transformation’ occasions held in Jinta County, Jiuquan City, Gansu Province.
On June 5, the flagship Sci-Tech Empowering Rural Transformation: 2026 Climate Resilience and Green Transition Dialogue occasion started in Jinta County, Jiuquan City, Gansu Province. The day additionally coincided with World Environment Day, with China’s theme being “Comprehensive Green Transformation: Building a Beautiful China Together” for this 12 months’s observance.
Building on the outcomes and networks established by way of earlier occasions within the sequence, the dialogue combines discipline visits with thematic discussions, showcasing scalable, revolutionary practices that contribute to the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030) and help nationwide pathways towards carbon neutrality and climate-resilient improvement, and continues into June 6 throughout varied websites in Jiuquan.
The dialogue was collectively organized by the China Internet Information Center (CIIC), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Representation in China, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) China Office, the Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP-CSAM), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in China. It was additionally supported by the China Green Foundation, a civil society group that promotes afforestation and environmental consciousness, and by the Ant Forest Foundation, which was launched by Ant Financial Services Group, an affiliate of Alibaba.
More than 100 folks attended both in individual or on-line, representing eight international locations and a various vary of stakeholders, together with eight worldwide organizations, authorities companies, embassies in China, United Nations entities, analysis establishments, private-sector companions, civil society organizations, beneficiary farmers and the media.
Yu Yunquan, vice chairman of the China International Communications Group (CICG), highlighted the more and more essential position of science and expertise in advancing ecological governance and rural improvement in his opening speech. Yu famous that technological innovation is evolving from merely “shaping the environment” to “creating value” and that this transformation drives new alternatives for sustainable development. He emphasised that leveraging science and expertise for the aim of selling rural improvement is a crucial pathway to strengthening local weather resilience and accelerating the inexperienced transformation of agriculture along with being a vivid demonstration of the precept that “lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets.”
“Building an ecological civilization requires compelling narratives that resonate with people in addition to sustained, hands-on efforts on the ground,” he noticed.
A complete worldwide communication establishment, CICG stays dedicated to sharing the story of Chinese modernization with international audiences. Yu additional pressured CICG’s readiness to leverage its strengths in worldwide communication and multi-stakeholder engagement to assist foster platforms for worldwide cooperation.
“We are willing to work hand in hand with partners around the world to build a community of innovation and a community of knowledge,” he concluded. “Together, we can better tell the stories of ecological civilization and green development, contribute to greater global consensus, and bring collective wisdom and strength to building a shared future for all life on Earth.”
“Achieving climate resilience and a green transition will require sustained investment and collective action,” said Dima Al-Khatib, director of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation. “By leveraging South-South and triangular cooperation, climate and development finance, and private-sector engagement, countries can mobilize the resources, expertise, and innovation needed to support communities, local actors, research institutions, and practitioners at scale.”
“China’s experience offers valuable lessons,” Stephen Jackson, UN resident coordinator in China, remarked. “Programs such as the ‘Three‑North’ Shelterbelt [A massive, ongoing afforestation program spanning northern China that was launched in 1978 in order to combat the rapid expansion of the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts and is also known as China’s Great Green Wall] and Ant Forest show how long‑term vision, innovation, and public participation can restore ecosystems and improve livelihoods.”
He additionally emphasised that lasting progress requires partnership, data sharing and collective motion.
Ai Yinfang, deputy director-general of the China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchanges (CICETE), pressured that spotlight must be paid to inclusiveness, localization, and synergy when implementing related initiatives in a gap speech. She said that, sooner or later, CICETE will proceed to determine extra “replicable and implementable” sensible instances, promote diversified capacity-building in an effort to assist policymakers and practitioners in creating international locations improve their hands-on capabilities in inexperienced transformation, and facilitate the coordination of multilateral and bilateral assets in order that China’s profitable expertise might be extra successfully shared overseas, contributing China’s energy to the event of Global South international locations and the development of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Huang Xiaochun, deputy secretary of the Communist Party of China’s (CPC) Jinta County Committee and head of Jinta County, noticed in his welcoming speech that Jinta is among the many areas most severely affected by desertification and land sandification in China. The deputy secretary famous that the folks of Jinta have remained steadfast of their efforts to broaden inexperienced cowl and fight desertification because the Nineteen Fifties and that the county has actively aligned its improvement with the nation’s “dual-carbon” goals because the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which was held in 2012. Huang said that Jinta has accomplished 850,000 mu (56,700 ha) of afforestation and reforestation and guarded 539,000 mu (35,900 ha) of desertified land by way of enclosure and conservation measures and that these efforts have resulted in each desertified and sandy land areas within the county contracting constantly for greater than 20 years whereas efforts to stop wind erosion and stabilize sand have progressed in tandem with rising incomes for native farmers.
“The continuous improvement of the ecological environment that has occurred has breathed new life into Jinta while providing a strong foundation for rural green transformation, industrial renewal and upgrading, and climate resilience,” Huang added. “Green development has become the most distinctive hallmark of Jinta’s development.”
“IFAD is committed to supporting efforts that enhance the application of climate-adaptive technologies, promote green energy, and foster circular economies – ensuring that the most vulnerable are not left behind in this transformation,” famous Nii Quaye-Kumah, IFAD China consultant and head of the South-South and Triangular Cooperation (SSTC) Centre for Asia-Pacific. “We believe that empowering rural communities with the right tools and knowledge is the cornerstone of sustainable development.”
In a keynote speech, Lei Jiaqiang, a desertification management skilled and analysis fellow on the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, said, “Through science-based desertification control and innovative development models, China has become the first country to achieve zero net land degradation, offering an effective solution to global desertification challenges.”
He remarked that China has pioneered a sustainable improvement pathway that integrates desertification management, ecological restoration, and financial improvement and that this progress has been pushed by applied sciences and practices reminiscent of straw checkerboard sand limitations, water-efficient afforestation, and the event of desert-based industries alongside rising improvements together with the ecological use of brackish water and the mixing of photovoltaic energy era with ecosystem restoration.
Looking forward, Lei emphasised the significance of strengthening worldwide cooperation beneath the Belt and Road Initiative. He talked about that China seeks to advance the mixing of desertification management and industrial improvement and work with international locations world wide to construct a worldwide neighborhood devoted to combating desertification and selling sustainable improvement by way of platforms such because the China-Africa Green Technology Park demonstration challenge – a collaborative desertification management and sustainable agriculture demonstration challenge positioned in Bir El Barka, Mauritania, that’s designed to rework harsh desert environments into sustainable inexperienced zones utilizing Chinese sand-fixing, water-saving, and dryland farming strategies and applied sciences.
Xu Yinlong, analysis fellow on the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), remarked in a keynote speech that international warming has precipitated the frequency and depth of maximum local weather occasions in China to succeed in file ranges and that this phenomenon exposes agricultural manufacturing to more and more extreme climate-related dangers and underscores the pressing necessity of strengthening local weather change adaptation efforts.
He additionally noticed that local weather warming is enabling the cultivation areas of China’s main crops to broaden northward and westward and that this creates new alternatives to optimize the nation’s agricultural manufacturing construction. Xu added that the adoption of low-carbon agricultural strategies and applied sciences can enhance the standard of agricultural merchandise and that this presents a sensible pathway towards high-quality and sustainable agricultural improvement along with enhancing carbon sequestration and lowering greenhouse fuel emissions.
An excerpt from a report corresponding with the dialogue often called Sci-Tech Empowering Rural Transformation: 2026 Climate Resilience was distributed on the occasion as effectively. The full report is scheduled to be launched in September.
Zheng Wenhua, deputy head of the CIIC, talked about that the report was developed with help from Phase II (2024–2030) of the Global South-South Development Center (GSSDC) Project – a flagship initiative of the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC), in partnership with CICETE – and is being collectively edited by the 5 organizing establishments and ready in collaboration with main Chinese consultants from the CAAS’s Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, the Beijing University of Agriculture, the School of Landscape Architecture at Beijing Forestry University, and different associate establishments.
The report can be revealed in each Chinese and English and can characteristic roughly 10 case research highlighting revolutionary, technology-driven approaches to strengthening local weather resilience and supporting inexperienced transformation in rural communities. It argues that China has at the moment achieved a shift in inexperienced and low-carbon improvement and local weather resilience – from fragmentation to coordination, from single-sector approaches to systemic governance, and from passive response to proactive prevention – successfully addressing governance shortcomings, reminiscent of a earlier emphasis on mitigation over adaptation and on improvement over safety. A vital endeavor, coordinating the development of local weather resilience constructing with inexperienced and low-carbon transition is a crucial pillar for the agricultural and rural sectors in responding to local weather change, guaranteeing meals safety, and attaining sustainable improvement.
The occasion included a panel dialogue titled “How Climate Resilience Safeguards the Future of Rural Areas” and one other titled “Low-Carbon Transition as a New Engine for Inclusive Rural Growth.”
In his closing remarks, Mohamed Abdellahi El Vilaly, ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania to China, famous that because the late Nineteen Sixties, Mauritania has confronted extreme drought and desertification, with profound penalties for rangelands, agriculture, and rural livelihoods. He emphasised that the transition to a low-carbon financial system can function a strong driver of inclusive rural improvement by way of the promotion of sustainable agriculture, improved pure useful resource administration, and expanded entry to scrub vitality.
“China-Africa cooperation projects implemented in Mauritania have set a benchmark for green development across Africa, helping to share China’s valuable experience and expertise in combating desertification throughout the continent,” he mentioned. “The experiences of Mauritania and China in combating desertification and promoting green development demonstrate that genuine cooperation and the exchange of knowledge and expertise can transform environmental challenges into meaningful opportunities for development and prosperity.”
Some of the individuals who attended the Sci-Tech Empowering Rural Transformation: 2026 Climate Resilience and Green Transition Dialogue in individual additionally visited an Ant Forest challenge website positioned in Jinta County in an effort to observe Haloxylon (saxaul)–Cistanche grafting and associated desert-based trade improvement endeavors on the morning of June 5.
Over the previous 10 years, Ant Forest has inspired 700 million folks to undertake environmentally pleasant life and has planted greater than 600 million bushes in ecologically fragile areas that require pressing restoration all through China utilizing sustained company funding. An revolutionary system for mobilizing public participation in environmental safety, Ant Forest has supplied a Chinese resolution for selling inexperienced and sustainable improvement world wide and was awarded the United Nations’ “Champions of the Earth” Award – the best environmental honor granted by the UN.
On June 6, the attendees who went to the Ant Forest website in Jinta visited the ten,000-Mu Gobi Desert Agricultural Industrial Demonstration Park in Jiuquan’s Suzhou District, an IFAD-supported challenge website, in an effort to be taught extra about revolutionary agricultural practices that help sustainable rural improvement in arid areas as effectively. The challenge is designed to modernize and improve facility agriculture within the Gobi Desert area by way of the systematic renovation of 682 greenhouses within the park that at the moment undergo from ageing infrastructure and low manufacturing effectivity. It can even promote good, automated, and standardized greenhouse manufacturing by way of a differentiated administration strategy primarily based on facility classification.
IFAD helps ongoing and newly launched initiatives that improve the applying of climate-adaptive applied sciences in specialty agricultural industries and strengthen inclusiveness for weak teams in rural Gansu. It promotes higher inexperienced vitality deployment, rural waste and wastewater remedy, and agricultural waste recycling, contributing to rural vitalization and sustainable improvement whereas providing demonstration fashions that may be broadly replicated.
2026 ‘Sci-Tech Empowering Rural Transformation’ occasions cowl local weather resilience and inexperienced transition
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