my country has basically figured out the main biological groups and vegetation types-Chinese Academy of Sciences released multiple biodiversity results
Xinhua News Agency, Kunming, October 10 (Reporter Yue Ranran) The first phase of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity will open in Kunming on the 11th.
On the 10th, the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a number of biodiversity results at the Kunming Institute of Botany.
"my country has basically achieved the goal of understanding the main biological groups and vegetation types at the national level." Zhang Yaping, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, looked at the status, protection, collection, preservation, development and utilization of biodiversity resources, and the construction of big data platforms. The related achievements of the Chinese Academy of Sciences were introduced.
The "List of Biological Species in China (2021 Edition)" published in 2021 contains 115,000 biological species.
In 2020 alone, my country has published more than 2,400 new species, accounting for more than 10% of the total number of new species published in the world.
In recent years, China has established a biodiversity monitoring and research network. Among them, the Bird Net uses satellite trackers to mark more than 4 billion data on more than 140 species of more than 4,000 migratory birds.
The second scientific expedition to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the forthcoming third scientific expedition of natural resources in Xinjiang will provide detailed information on the background and changes of biodiversity in my country.
The "Catalogue of Biological Resources of the Chinese Academy of Sciences" has collected 7.35 million copies of biological resource data.
The Southwest China Wildlife Germplasm Resource Bank preserves 17,468 species and 258,000 biological germplasm resources, ensuring the safety of my country’s endemic, rare and endangered species, and species with important economic, ecological and scientific value.
The "Ten Thousand Dogs International Genome Project", "Ten Thousand Species of Bird Genome Project", and "Ten Thousand Species of Fish Genome Project" led or co-sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Sciences provide a new perspective for understanding the origin and evolution of biodiversity.
“The protection of giant pandas is a successful case all over the world, and it has also set a banner for the protection of endangered species in the world.” said Wei Fuwen, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The growth of the population has benefited from my country’s strong protection measures and scientific support."
Zhang Yaping said that scientific research on biodiversity provides important scientific support for the formulation of biodiversity conservation plans and is of great significance to my country's implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
The press conference was hosted by the Biodiversity Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Endangered Species Science Committee of the People's Republic of China.