China News Service, Kunming, January 20 (Reporter Han Shuainan) The reporter learned from the Forestry and Grassland Bureau of Pu'er City, Yunnan Province on the 20th that on the 18th, relevant personnel from the agriculture and forestry departments of Pu'er City and Phongsaly Province, Laos gathered in Jiangcheng County, Yunnan Province on the China-Laos border At the Mengkang Port boundary marker, we jointly promote practical and effective regional forestry cooperation and maintain the safety of the regional ecological environment by donating assistance materials for forest and grass pest prevention and control and conducting technical training.
The picture shows the donation ceremony scene.
Photo courtesy of Pu'er Forestry and Grassland Bureau
On the same day, Xu Hongbin, deputy mayor of the Pu'er Municipal People's Government, pointed out at the donation ceremony that China and Laos are friendly neighbors connected by mountains and rivers. Pu'er City and Fengsaly Province are geographically close, have close human ties, business ties, cultural ties, and traditional friendship. It has a long history.
Since the large-scale cross-border migration of yellow-ridged bamboo locusts to Pu'er City in 2020, China has donated 500,000 yuan in prevention and control materials to Laos, and with the support and cooperation of Laos, China has sent a working group to Laos to carry out technical training and assistance in prevention and control. Multiple batches of large-scale yellow-spine bamboo locusts were successfully intercepted and culled, and the joint prevention and control mechanism for major forestry pests on both sides has been continuously strengthened.
In July 2023, the agriculture and forestry departments of both sides signed the "Memorandum on Joint Prevention and Control of Forest and Grass Disasters" at the Department of Agriculture and Forestry of Phongsaly Province, reaching a consensus to further strengthen the prevention of major forest and grass pest disasters in border areas.
Xu Hongbin proposed that both governments should further attach great importance to the construction of a joint prevention and control mechanism for major forest and grass pest disasters such as the yellow-ridged bamboo locust, achieve information exchange, resource sharing, and establish a "four early mechanism": "early monitoring, early detection, and early notification" ", early prevention and control"; the two sides have carried out extensive technical exchanges and training in the fields of monitoring, prevention and control of major forest and grass pest disasters such as the Yellow-ridged Bamboo Locust; both parties should seize the best period for the prevention and control of Yellow-ridged Bamboo Locust larvae, increase prevention and control efforts, and prevent The disaster spreads; the two sides continue to optimize the friendly cooperation mechanism to jointly effectively prevent harmful biological disasters and ensure the safety of agriculture, forestry and regional ecology.
Songjit Sition, member of the Lao Phongsaly Provincial Party Committee and director of the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Forestry, expressed his gratitude to Pu'er City for its long-term assistance and support to Laos' major forest and grass pest control, forest and grassland fire prevention, and wildlife protection.
He pointed out that in recent years, through China’s donation of prevention and control materials and technical guidance, the occurrence of major forestry disasters has been effectively curbed and regional ecological security has been effectively promoted.
At the same time, he highly recognized the "four initiatives" proposed by China and expressed that he would effectively use the donated prevention and control materials and actively cooperate with China in the prevention and control of major forest and grass pests, forest and grassland fire prevention, and wildlife protection. .
It is reported that in order to implement the "Joint Prevention and Joint Control Memorandum", China purchased prevention and control materials with a total value of 150,400 yuan and donated them to the Department of Agriculture and Forestry of Phongsaly Province in Laos, and carried out corresponding technical training for Laos.
Pu'er Municipal People's Government, Municipal Forestry and Grassland Bureau, Municipal Foreign Affairs Office, Jiangcheng County People's Government, County Forestry and Grassland Bureau, County Foreign Affairs Office, Laos Phongsaly Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Department, Provincial Department of Foreign Affairs, Bennu County Agriculture and Forestry Bureau, Yoou County Agriculture and Forestry Bureau Other relevant responsible persons attended the donation ceremony.
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