China News Service, Wuhan, November 7 (Reporter Zhang Qin) Wang Changyou, director of the Hubei Provincial Forestry Bureau, said at the 14th Conference of the Parties to the "Convention on Wetlands" held on the evening of the 6th that through the implementation of a series of protection and restoration such as the Yangtze River protection Project, the recovery of wetland functions in Hubei has been accelerated, and the wetland ecology has continued to improve.
Wang Changyou introduced that Hubei is a large ecological province and a large wetland province. It has the largest river, lake and reservoir complex freshwater wetland ecosystem in the country. The province's wetland area reaches 1.7469 million hectares, accounting for 9.4% of the country's land area.
At present, there are 4 wetlands of international importance, 8 wetlands of national importance, and 66 national wetland parks.
"Hubei will take this conference as an opportunity to learn from the good experience and practices of all parties, and to unite efforts to continuously improve the level of Hubei's wetland protection and management capabilities." Wang Changyou said that Hubei will take advantage of the good platform built by this conference to further Strengthen cooperation and exchanges on wetland protection, and push Hubei wetland protection work to a new level.
According to reports, in the next step, Hubei will strengthen the wetland protection cooperation and enhance the protection synergy by establishing a joint meeting system for wetland protection.
At the same time, continue to promote the construction of the smart wetland system, actively build a scientific research cooperation platform, increase technical training, strengthen the construction of teams at all levels, and improve the wetland governance system and governance capacity.
In addition, Hubei will strive to issue local wetland protection regulations and improve the supporting policy system.
Support all localities to scientifically promote the sustainable use of wetlands to achieve a "win-win" of high-level protection and high-quality development.
On November 5, the fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Wetlands opened simultaneously in the main venue in Wuhan, China and the sub-venue in Geneva, Switzerland.
This is also the first time that China has hosted this international conference since its accession to the Convention on Wetlands 30 years ago.
Wuhan, where the conference was held, is the only "international wetland city" in the world with a population of over 10 million.
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