The Green Chain International Cooperation Fund, initiated and established by the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), was unveiled in Beijing on August 27 and signed agreements with partners to carry out public welfare projects for combating desertification. The "Block Sandstorms, Join Hands to Plant Green, Protect Our Shared Home Together" China-Mongolia desertification prevention and green development demonstration ecological science and technology public welfare project was thus officially launched.

The CBCGDF Green Chain International Cooperation Fund was officially unveiled and established.

At the "Academic Conference on Jointly Building an Ecological Security Barrier and Green Development and the Founding Conference of the CBCGDF Green Chain International Cooperation Fund" hosted by CBCGDF and the Alliance of International Science Organizations (ANSO) under the Belt and Road Initiative, the CBCGDF Green Chain International Cooperation Fund, the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGSNRR), and the Institute of Geography and Geoecology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences jointly signed a cooperation agreement on public welfare projects for combating desertification. According to the plan, the partners will work with relevant Mongolian government departments to jointly establish an international desertification control experimental base along the route that Siberian cold fronts and Mongolian sandstorms must pass through as they move southward.

Around the desertification control experimental base, the project cooperation team will attract global enterprises, universities, institutions, individual volunteers and other social forces to jointly participate in building a green-planting and sand-prevention scientific experimental base and a green development demonstration area, cooperatively build an environmental and ecological monitoring system, carry out public welfare activities such as scientific research, green planting, exchanges and ecological education, and create a green ecological public good with international influence.

Signing ceremony for cooperation on the desertification control public welfare project.

Hu Deping, founding chairman of CBCGDF, expressed the hope that the Green Chain International Cooperation Fund can bring together more enterprises to pay attention to the public welfare cause of green development, and that desertification control requires a change in the overall social atmosphere and more scientific planning.

Sun Honglie, senior academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Belt and Road International Scientists Alliance, pointed out that we should not only set goals but also need practice and gradual implementation, and expressed the hope of selecting several typical demonstration areas to study how to scientifically build an ecological security barrier.

Dong Suocheng, chairman of the Belt and Road International Scientists Alliance and researcher at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Avirmed Dashtseren, chief scientist of the Mongolia-China Desertification Control Cooperation Center and director of the Institute of Geography and Geoecology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, delivered keynote reports entitled "China and Mongolia Jointly Building a Northern Ecological Security Barrier and Green Development Model" and "Mongolia's Environmental Challenges and Academic Cooperation," respectively.

Xie Boyang, counselor of the State Council and chairman of CBCGDF, presented the letter of appointment as chief scientist of the Green Chain International Cooperation Fund to Dong Suocheng. Zhou Jinfeng, vice chairman and secretary-general of CBCGDF, introduced that initiating and establishing the Green Chain International Cooperation Fund is a measure by CBCGDF to support the building of a green development and multilateral cooperation platform under the Belt and Road Initiative.

Wang Juanle, deputy director of the Earth Data Science and Sharing Research Office of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and vice chairman of the Belt and Road International Scientists Alliance, in his report "Spatiotemporal Distribution of Disasters on the Mongolian Plateau and Its Climate Change Adaptation," suggested that with the support of public welfare organizations, a big data sharing and collaborative innovation network platform for ecological environment and green development could be built to contribute to environmental governance and green development on the Mongolian Plateau.

At the meeting that day, Liu Shu, former vice chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology and honorary chairman of CBCGDF, sent a congratulatory letter; Zanya Scanlon, director of communications, external relations and partnerships of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, delivered a video address; Yi Zhijun, executive deputy director of the Secretariat of the Alliance of International Science Organizations under the Belt and Road Initiative, Academician Liu Jiaqi, vice chairman of the Scientific Committee of the Belt and Road International Scientists Alliance, and Lu Tongyu, director of the Management Committee of the Green Chain International Cooperation Fund, delivered speeches and exchanged remarks, respectively.