"China Blue Bay Remediation Action" was awarded the United Nations "World Ecological Restoration Flagship Project" in 2026

China News Service, Beijing, October 29 (Reporter Ruan Yulin) China's Ministry of Natural Resources reported on the 29th that at the "Restoration Day" event of the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) of the Convention on Biological Diversity held in Yerevan, Armenia, the United Nations Environment Program officially announced that due to China's outstanding achievements in marine ecological protection and restoration, the "China Blue Bay Renovation Action" was awarded the United Nations "World Ecological Restoration Flagship Project" in 2026.

The "China Blue Bay Remediation Action" is organized and implemented under the leadership of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Finance. This is the second national ecological protection and restoration action to be awarded the flagship project after the "China Landscape Project" was awarded the first batch of flagship projects in the world in 2022. China has become the first country to be awarded the flagship project twice with national actions.

The "World Ecological Restoration Flagship Project" is jointly launched by the United Nations Environment Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. It is an important global action under the framework of the United Nations Decade of Ecosystem Restoration and aims to select representative, demonstrative and influential large-scale ecosystem restoration actions around the world. Ecological restoration actions in Colombia, Ethiopia, Italy, the United States and other countries were also awarded as flagship projects this time.

The United Nations Environment Program commented that "China's Blue Bay Renovation Initiative is one of the world's most promising, ambitious, and inspiring large-scale ecological restoration cases. It has won this international award because of its commitment to improving the marine ecological environment and enhancing the long-term well-being of local communities."

The Ministry of Natural Resources said that being awarded the flagship project is the international community’s full recognition of the effectiveness of China’s marine ecological protection and restoration practices. Through the global publicity and promotion of the flagship project, China's ecological governance effectiveness and institutional advantages will be further demonstrated, China's responsibility to actively participate in global marine ecological governance and promote the construction of a community with a shared future for the ocean will be contributed to global environmental governance and biodiversity protection.