The Sci-Tech Empowering Rural Transformation: 2026 Climate Resilience and Green Transition Dialogue was held Friday and Saturday in Jinta county, Gansu province, to discover how science and technology can assist rural communities adapt to local weather change and advance inexperienced development.
Coinciding with World Environment Day on Friday, the occasion centered on strengthening local weather resilience in rural areas, accelerating low-carbon agricultural development and sharing sensible experiences that may be tailored by creating international locations.
A key consequence of the occasion was the discharge of excerpts from a forthcoming bilingual report, Sci-Tech Empowering Rural Transformation: 2026 Climate Resilience, scheduled for publication in September. The report will function about 10 case research highlighting technology-driven approaches to local weather adaptation and inexperienced transition in rural communities.
According to the organizers, the report argues that China has more and more built-in local weather resilience, inexperienced development and rural vitalization via extra coordinated governance, proactive threat prevention and broader adoption of low-carbon applied sciences.
Participants highlighted China’s expertise in combating desertification, restoring ecosystems and enhancing rural livelihoods via scientific innovation.
In a keynote speech, desertification skilled Lei Jiaqiang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences mentioned China has pioneered development fashions that mix ecological restoration with financial progress, citing applied sciences similar to straw checkerboard sand boundaries, water-efficient afforestation and desert-based industries.
Agricultural local weather skilled Xu Yinlong of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences warned that more and more frequent excessive climate occasions are elevating dangers to meals manufacturing, underscoring the necessity for climate-adaptive farming applied sciences and low-carbon agricultural practices.
Mohamed Abdellahi El Vilaly, Mauritania’s ambassador to China, mentioned the dialogue highlighted the significance of turning environmental challenges into development alternatives.
Mauritania has confronted extreme drought and desertification for many years, affecting agriculture, rangelands and rural livelihoods.
China-Africa cooperation initiatives in Mauritania have helped share sensible expertise in combating desertification and selling inexperienced development throughout the continent, he mentioned.
The dialogue additionally featured panel discussions on local weather resilience and inclusive rural progress, with contributors emphasizing the significance of worldwide cooperation, technology switch and South-South collaboration.
Delegates visited an Ant Forest ecological restoration undertaking in Jinta, the place they noticed desert rehabilitation efforts combining Haloxylon tree planting with medicinal plant cultivation.
On Saturday, contributors toured an IFAD-supported agricultural demonstration park in Jiuquan, Gansu, that’s modernizing greenhouse manufacturing in the Gobi Desert via automation and sensible applied sciences.
The dialogue was collectively organized by the China Internet Information Center, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Representation in China, the International Fund for Agricultural Development China Office, the Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and the United Nations Development Programme in China.