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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
YINCHUAN, March 17 (Xinhua) — Uzbekistan's Navoi Region and northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR) can develop cooperation in preventing and combating desertification, soil restoration, agrobiotechnology, and resource-saving technologies, Navoi Regional Governor Normat Tursunov said Monday at a business meeting between the NHAR and the Navoi Region held in Yinchuan City (NHAR administrative center).
On Monday, a delegation from Navoi Region, led by N. Tursunov, visited the Baijitan National Nature Reserve, located on the southwestern edge of the Mu-Us Desert in the city of Lingwu, Navoi Autonomous Region, and the China-Central Asia Cooperation Center to Prevent and Combat Desertification. The delegation also met with representatives of government agencies and entrepreneurs in Navoi Autonomous Region to discuss prospects for cooperation.
According to N. Tursunov, a project to prevent and combat desertification using China's experience is planned to be implemented in the Navoi region in 2026.
As Feng Zhanwen, Director of the China-Central Asia Cooperation Center for Preventing and Combating Desertification, noted, in its long-term practice of combating desertification, NHAR actively promotes the application of new concepts, technologies, and models and has already established a desertification control system taking into account regional characteristics in six areas: combating desertification through science and technology, combating desertification through industrial development, combating desertification through photovoltaic power plants, combating desertification through road construction, combating desertification through mechanical equipment, and jointly preventing and combating desertification.
At the business meeting, N. Tursunov also invited NHAR enterprises to cooperate in the fields of agricultural processing, water management infrastructure, and energy.
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. -0-
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