In October 2021, the Information Office of the State Council of China has published the White Paper on “Biodiversity Conservation in China”. The white paper pointed out that “as one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, China’s land and sea territories are both vast; its complex terrain and diverse climate gave birth to unique ecosystems, abundant species, and rich genetic variety.”
As one of the first parties signing and ratifying the Convention on Biological Diversity, China has always attached great importance to biodiversity conservation. Since the establishment of the first nature reserve in 1956, China has established nearly 10,000 nature reserve regions at all levels for about 18% of the land area. China has actively promoted the establishment of nature reserve systems with national parks as the core, nature reserves as the foundation and various natural parks as the supplement in recent years, laying a solid foundation for protecting habitats, improving ecological environment quality and safeguarding national ecological security.
China has effectively protected 90% of terrestrial ecosystem types and 71% of national key protected wildlife species by building a scientific and reasonable nature reserve system since 2015. The habitat of wild animals is on constant expansion, and their population is further increasing. In the past 40 years, the population of wild pandas has increased from 1,114 to 1,864, the population of crested ibis from 7 to more than 5,000, the population of Asian elephants from 180 to about 300 till now, and the wild gibbons in Hainan have reproduced themselves from less than 10 to 35.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has made in his keynote speech at the Leaders’ Summit of the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) with the theme of “Ecological Civilization:
Building a Shared Future for All Life on Earth” three visions clear: to build an earth home where man and nature live harmoniously, where economy and environment work together, and where all countries in the world develop together and put forward four initiatives: “1. we shall take the development of ecological civilization as our guide to coordinate the relationship between man and Nature; 2. we shall let green transition drive our efforts to facilitate global sustainable development; 3. we shall concentrate on bettering people’s well-being to promote social equity and justice; 4. we shall take international law as the basis to uphold a fair and equitable international governance system”.
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