China’s National Forestry and Grassland Bureau and Pakistan’s Ministry of Climate Change had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on forestry cooperation in November last to identify priority areas for cooperation and seek support from relevant departments.

The National Forestry and Grassland Bureau International Cooperation Department and the relevant person in charge of the Pakistan Climate Change Department jointly presided over the meeting.

The two sides introduced the forestry profiles and work priorities of the two countries, and exchanged views on issues such as wetland restoration and floodplain control, desertification control, saline-alkali land ecological restoration, shelterbelt construction and wildlife protection, and discussed the prospects for cooperation.

During its stay in China, the Pakistani delegation also visited the International Bamboo and Rattan Organization and the Asia-Pacific Forest Restoration and Sustainable Management Organization to exchange views on the development and utilization of bamboo and rattan resources, sustainable forest management, and capacity building, and went to Ningxia to visit nature protection. Districts and wetland parks learn from the experience of wetland protection and floodplain management in China.