Secretary-General of the Middle East Green Initiative Pays an Official Visit to the People's Republic of China

H.E. Eng. Ibrahim Al-Turki, Secretary-General of the Middle East Green Initiative, paid an official visit to the People's Republic of China to discuss ways to strengthen strategic partnership and exchange expertise in combating desertification, sustainable land management, and applying modern technologies in vegetation cover development.

H.E. Eng. Ibrahim Alturki, Secretary General of the Middle East Green Initiative, met with several officials from the Chinese Academy of Forestry, the Chinese Institute of Forestry Research, and the China-Arab Institute for Desertification Studies at the Academy’s headquarters in Beijing on the morning of 2 September 2026, during his official visit to the People’s Republic of China.

The two sides exchanged views on areas of cooperation and reviewed their respective efforts to combat land degradation and the technologies used to curb sand encroachment.

Field visits were also organized to sites of projects aimed at halting sand encroachment in Beijing, forest conservation projects that engage farmers and provide them with income opportunities through mushroom cultivation and economically valuable medicinal plants, and pine forest plantation projects.