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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
YINCHUAN, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) — A China/Ningxia/Uzbekistan video conference on desertification prevention and control was held on Tuesday, during which the two sides held an in-depth exchange of views on these issues and presented their vision for cooperation.
The event was jointly organized by the Chinese Embassy in Uzbekistan, the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Uzbekistan, the Foreign Affairs Office of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR, Northwest China), and the Forestry and Steppe Administration of the NHAR with the assistance of the Embassy of Uzbekistan in China.
Participants noted that China and Uzbekistan, which share a temperate continental climate, face common challenges such as drought, water shortages, and the management of alkaline soils. They also share a desire to protect their ecological homeland and promote green development. The practical experience accumulated by the two countries in environmental protection has laid a solid foundation for their complementary cooperation.
The NKHAR is surrounded by the Mu Us, Tengger, and Ulan Bukh deserts on three sides. The area of desert and sandy land in this autonomous region amounted to 2.64 million and 1 million hectares, respectively, or 50.7 percent and 19.3 percent of the region's total land area. Thanks to tireless efforts to combat desertification, the NKHAR became the first provincial-level administrative unit in China to record a reduction in both indicators.
In June 2025, during the 2nd China-Central Asia Summit, it was announced that within the framework of China-Central Asia cooperation, the China-Central Asia Cooperation Center for Preventing and Combating Desertification would be established, which would be located in NHAR.
The videoconference was attended by Uzbekistan's Ambassador to China, Farkhod Arziev. In early 2026, he led a delegation to visit the Baijitan National Nature Reserve, located on the southwestern edge of the Mu-Us Desert in the city of Lingwu, and the NHAR Vocational and Technical University.
According to Chinese Ambassador to Uzbekistan Yu Jun, relations between China and Uzbekistan are currently at a new historical height – the level of an all-weather comprehensive strategic partnership in the new era, which provides powerful impetus for deepening pragmatic cooperation in various fields, including ecology and environmental protection. Preventing and combating desertification is an important area of cooperation with enormous potential and far-reaching significance, fully consistent with the fundamental interests of the peoples of both countries. China calls on both sides to fully utilize the existing frameworks of bilateral and multilateral cooperation to create favorable conditions for the implementation of specific projects.
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