Time: From July 15^th, 2024 to July 28^th, 2024（14 days）

Languege: English

1. Project Background

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) spans mainly developing economies, where the primary mode of growth often entails sacrificing the environment at its early stages. The grassland belt of China lies in the eastern segment of the Eurasian grassland belt, stretching across the Northeast Plain, the Mongolian Plateau, the Loess Plateau, and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It shares commonalities with other regions of the Eurasian grassland belt in terms of the origin and evolution of plant species, composition and structure of flora and fauna communities, and regional ecological environment management. There are commonalities in grassland ecological governance and restoration. By adopting a collaborative approach among multiple countries, integrating and sharing factors such as scientific research and development, application promotion, capital, infrastructure, talent, land, and genetic resources in the animal husbandry industry, tremendous potential for regional animal husbandry development will be unleashed. This initiative holds significant importance for addressing regional ecological environmental issues.

2. Training Objectives

The Seminar on Grassland Conservation and Sustainable Livestock Development for BRI Partner Countries was successfully held. Through this training, the exchange and cooperation of experience and knowledge in grassland conservation and sustainable livestock development were enhanced. It helped developing countries to cultivate talents in grassland ecological conservation and animal husbandry, promote experience exchange and technology cooperation, and enhance participants' theoretical understanding and technical application ability in animal husbandry development. In addition, the participants have acquired new knowledge, mastered new technologies, accumulated new experience and disseminated new concepts, thus giving new impetus to the comprehensive management of grassland ecology and sustainable development of animal husbandry along the Belt and Road Initiative.

3. Memories

3.1 Lecture by Mr. DAI Xin, Deputy Director General of Agricultural Information Institute of CAAS

3.2 Lecture by Mr. LIN Kejian, Director General of Grassland Research Institute of CAAS

3.3 On-site Lecture in the Ordos Experimentation and Demonstration Base for Sandy Grassland

3.4 Group Photo of All the Foreign Participants

3.5 On-site Lecture in the Inner Mongolia Grassland Ecosystem Research Station of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

3.6 Filed Trip to the M-Grass Ecology and Environment (Group) Co. , Ltd.

3.7 Field Trip: Alpine Grassland of the Daqingshan Nature Reserve

3.8 Participants Taking Lectures