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The China-Africa Environmental Cooperation Center was inaugurated in Beijing. The center is designated to provide an open, inclusive and cooperative platform to enhance China-Africa environmental cooperation, promote green development, and support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the AU Agenda 2063.
At the opening ceremony, China’s Environment Minister Huang Runqiu said, “Chinese and Africans share a common desire for a beautiful environment and prosperous life, and the environmental sector has become a key field of cooperation. between the two sides. In recent years, China and Africa have maintained successful environmental cooperation in terms of protecting ecology and climate change. The establishment of the center will be a new starting point to deepen and enrich that cooperative relationship. ” .
He said that China has so far signed agreements with five African countries, including South Africa and Ethiopia, and has helped train more than 900 Africans through workshops on urban environmental management and water pollution control since 2015.
China has also signed 14 agreements to address climate change with 13 African nations since 2011, and has donated a large number of equipment to help the continent’s countries cope with climate change, including more than 10,000 sets of generation equipment. photovoltaic solar energy and the launch of a small satellite.
Deputy Foreign Minister Deng Li said the center will offer a new platform to boost the exchange of information from China and Africa on industries and technologies in the environmental protection sector.
Senegal’s ambassador to China Mamadou Ndiaye, who is also co-chair of the Forum for China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), said the center would help African countries increase their capacity for environmental management and sustainable development.
The establishment of the China-Africa Environmental Cooperation Center was first proposed at the FOCAC Summit in Johannesburg in 2015.
In September 2018, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced at the opening ceremony of the 2018 FOCAC Beijing Summit that China will launch eight major initiatives in close collaboration with African countries in the next three years and beyond. Green development is one of the main initiatives for China-Africa cooperation. President Xi noted that a China-Africa environmental cooperation center will be established and more political dialogues and joint investigations will be held on environmental issues.
In the future, the center will implement the China-Africa Green Envoys Program, the China-Africa Green Innovation Program and other flagship programs to actively advance the development of a platform for political dialogue, a platform for cooperation networks, a platform for capacity development, and a platform for project demonstration.
