China has approved a project to offer technological support for the realization of Africa’s Great Green Wall initiative, the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography (XIEG) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences said on Tuesday.
The Great Green Wall is an ambitious project aimed at growing an 8,000-kilometer stretch of natural wonder of the world across the entire width of Africa.
Its goal is to provide food, jobs and a future for the millions of people who live in a region on the frontline of climate change.
Once completed, the Great Green Wall will be the largest living structure on Earth and a new Wonder of the World.
According to Lei Jiaqiang, director of the XIEG, China will cooperate with Mauritania, Nigeria and Ethiopia, amongst other African countries, to systematically diagnose desertification and the technical needs in the region.
The project will bring China’s desertification prevention and control technologies, materials, and products to Africa, and conduct environmental adaptability assessments.
It will also include personnel training and capacity building on anti-desertification measures in African countries. Some Chinese enterprises dealing with prevention and control of desertification will also participate in the project.
“We hope to bring China’s wisdom in anti-desertification to Africa and help enhance the capability of desertification prevention in African countries along the Great Green Wall,” Lei said.
