Asia Pacific Forestry Week 2016 Partnership for

Asia Pacific Forestry Week 2016
Partnership for Positive Change:
Towards new Chinese overseas
forest investment and trade
China’s rising demand for timber
products has had far-reaching
impacts on the global forest
products trade and investment. This
impact is expected to accelerate
further in the coming years,
especially under the new Silk Road
Economic Belt and the 21st Century
Maritime Silk Road initiatives – also
known as “One Belt, One Road
(OBOR)” – which offers
opportunities for Chinese
businesses to leverage new
partnerships in Asia Pacific and
beyond.
WWF and Center for International
Forest Products Trade (CINFT) of
China’s State Forestry
Administration (SFA) will jointly
host this event, which will spotlight
China’s Silk Road initiatives, its
implications for the forest sector
and the potential for new
partnerships for sustainable
development in the Asia Pacific
region.
Specifically, the event will feature
the successful experience of the
China-Gabon partnership; China’s
efforts in combating illegal logging
and associate trade; efforts by the
private sector to promote green
forest products production, trade
and investment; and lessons
PROGRAM:
16.30 - 16.40
Welcome & Opening remarks (Mr. Jin Zhonghao)
16.40 - 16.55
The Chinese Forestry Strategy of OBOR (Prof. Cheng Baodong)
16.55 - 17.10
Trends in public-private-civil society partnerships: Replicating
China-Gabon partnership model in Asia Pacific (Ms. Wang Lei)
17.10 - 17.25
Meet International Timber Legality Requirements: Our Efforts (Ms.
Li Jing)
17.25 - 17.40
Experience from China’s collective forestry tenure reform –
Implication for Asia-Pacific forestry (Ms. Zhang Ying)
17.40 - 17.50
Q&A
17.50 - 18.00
Closing remarks (Mr. Jin Zhonghao)
February 23, 2016
16:30 - 18:00
Venue: Widus Hotel
SPEAKERS:
Mr. Jin Zhonghao
Director, Market Transformation
WWF China
Prof. Cheng Baodong
Professor
School of Economics and Management
of Beijing Forestry University
Ms. Wang Lei
Senior Forest Programme Officer
WWF China
Ms. Li Jing
Assistant Professor
Reserch Institute of Forestry Policy and
Information, CAF
Center for International Forest Products
Trade, SFA
Ms. Zhang Ying
Assistant Professor
Reserch Institute of Forestry Policy and
Information, CAF
MODERATOR:
Ms. Wang Liangyu
Senior Officer, Sustainable Forest
WWF China
FOR MORE INFORMATION,
CONTACT:
Ms. Wang Liangyu
Email: Wangliangyu@wwfchina.org