In the morning of May 13th, the opening ceremony of the Global Bio2Bio Summit is held in the sports center in Taishun County. Experts and scholars from all over the world and leading figures in relating industries are gathered there to attend the summit and to exchange their ideas about the protection of biodiversity and the promotion of sustainable development so as to build a common community with a shared future for all creatures on earth. Xie Zhiyuan, vice chairman and secretary of leading party group of Zhejiang Association of Science and Technology, Ren Yuming, deputy director and deputy secretary of leading party group of Standing Committee of Wenzhou Municipal People's Congress, and Lin Wanle, secretary of party committee of Taishun County, attend and deliver speeches. The opening ceremony is held by Wang Huijie, head of the county and deputy secretary of the County Party Committee. Other attendees are Hu Rongdeng, Lu Chang, Zeng Renhai and other members of the party committee, local people’s congress, government and local CPPCC as well as heads of the Cultural Exchange Organization of Presenting China to the World, Lu Yaoru, Chen Xu, Guo Huadong and other academicians and experts. The chairperson of the global biodiversity project delivers a speech through a video.
Xie Zhiyuan says that the summit is the first important event for World Young Scientist Summit in 2021. It’s suitable to say that the summit is held at a right time, in the right place and with the right tendency. People, resources and science and technology are gathered here to lead green development and create a grand summit for future cooperation. I hope that experts can engage actively in the guidance centered around the need of Zhejiang Province, especially Wenzhou City and Taishun County and adding features of greenness, inclusiveness and sustainable development, so industrial quality can be improved through technological support, industries can be upgraded through cooperation and industrial foundation can be solidified through the introduction of talented people. The provincial science association needs to see the association as a platform and make good use of it, so experts can have more communication to come up with wise plans so as to enable science and technology to better service society and people.
Ren Mingyu says that for years, the government in Wenzhou City has seen ecological environment protection including biodiversity protection as an important driving force for high-quality development; exploring ways to realize “2030 carbon peak and 2060 carbon neutral” and constructing an ecological economic system and an ecological protection system of “lush mountains and clear water”, so the city has found a way of sustainable development between man and nature with preliminary integration of ecological, economic and social benefits. The city views this summit as an opportunity to further exchange ideas and experience and work together to use wisdom and strength to build a beautiful and harmonious world for all creatures.
In Lin Wanle’s speech, he introduces that the best thing to represent Taishun County is it’s ecological environment. It’s forest coverage rate is as high as 76.88% and it’s important indexes like PM2.5 average and good and moderate rate of air quality have been best in Zhejiang Province. The county has also won the name “China Natural oxygen bar” and has became a national ecological county, national ecological civilization construction demonstration county and one of the first batch of carbon sink cities.
Lin Wanle says that biodiversity is of fundamental importance for human’s existence and development. For a long time, Taishun County has been carrying out Xi Jinping’s ecological civilization ideology and complementing biodiversity protection projects. The local government sees ecological environment protection as basis, ecological relocation as a starting project and digital and scientific governance as a method to establish the first biodiversity academician workstation in China so as to step on a characteristic road of “biodiversity protection and exploitation”. I sincerely expect that heads of government of all levels to care and support Taishun’s development and to come to our county to research, guidance and point a direction for development. I also sincerely hope experts to bring advanced ideas, science and technology into the county to improve green development potential, so we can find opportunities for progress and realize win-win situation in high-economic development and ecological and environmental protection. Taishun will stick to the development strategy of “ecological basis, tourism prosperity and strong industries”; protect biodiversity; expand the transformation road of “Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets” and strive to build Taishun as a demonstration place of national ecological civilization.
In the ceremony, people’s government in Taishun County signs cooperation agreements with the experts’ team of academician Zheng Guangmei, School of Life Science of Zhejiang University, Forest Resources Monitoring Center of Zhejiang Province and College of Forestry and Biotechnology of Zhejiang A&F University. Later, guests and heads of the government announce the official opening of the summit by pushing the start pole jointly.
In the opening ceremony, the government invites Guo Huadong, academician from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhang Mingxiang, the deputy secretary general of National Wetland Science and Technology Commission, and Yu Mingjian, professor from School of Life Science of Zhejiang University, to deliver keynote speeches of “Earth Big Data and Sustainable Development Goal”, “Wetland is a Necessary Choice for High-Quality Development of Wenzhou City” and “The Scientific Research and Popularization of Science of Forest Biodiversity in Subtropics”.