Building a shared future for all life on earth.

Byline: Nong Rong, Ambassador of People's Republic of China to Pakistan

MY ARTICLE starts with an interesting episode on a group of Asian elephants, which "lost" their way this April, roaming north away from their traditional habitat in South China. They caught much attention of the world media, not only because they are cute, but also for the good care they have received from the local people all along the route. After a 110-day-plus casual tour, this group of elephants roamed back happily to their traditional habitat, safe and sound. This is just an example of China's endeavors to protect biodiversity. In the philosophy of Chinese traditional culture, China holds the view that nature is an indispensable part of our homeland, and needs joint efforts to protect and nurture. And we do it accordingly.

On October 12, at the Leaders' Summit of the 15th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP15) held in Kunming, China, Chinese President Xin Jinping put forward the initiative to build a shared future for all life on earth -a homeland of harmonious coexistence between man and Nature, a homeland of coordinated advancement of economy and the environment, a homeland of common development of all countries. As the host country, China declares to establish a Kunming Biodiversity Fund with our initial share of 1.5 billion RMB yuan to support biodiversity protection in developing countries, to officially designate its first group of 5 national parks, and start to build a system of national botanical gardens in places like Beijing and Guangzhou and to put in place a "1+N" (one overarching document supported by numerous action plans) policy framework for carbon peak and carbon neutrality.

These approaches declared by President Xi have fully demonstrated China's determination to promote its ecological civilization drive, inject new momentum for global biodiversity protection, and laid a solid foundation for building a shared future for all life on earth. In recent decades, China has made outstanding achievements in biodiversity protection. We take lucid water and lush mountains as invaluable assets, stick...