2022年5月，经国务院批准，我国向联合国教科文组织正式提出申办第五届世界生物圈保护区大会。近日，联合国教科文组织助理总干事致函我国人与生物圈国家委员会，确认第五届世界生物圈保护区大会将于2025年在我国举办。该次大会后，联合国教科文组织还将在华召开人与生物圈计划国际协调理事会第37次会议。

人与生物圈计划是联合国教科文组织于1971年正式发起的大型政府间科学计划，聚焦以跨部门、跨学科研究为基础推动人与自然和谐共生。依托该计划建设的世界生物圈保护区网络是联合国教科文组织体系内规模最大、历史最悠久的自然保护地集合体，目前已包括738个世界生物圈保护区，分布在全球134个国家和地区，总面积占地球陆地表面积的5%。世界生物圈保护区大会是人与生物圈计划体系内规模最大的国际会议，大约每十年举办一届，旨在总结人与生物圈计划和世界生物圈保护区网络上一阶段的发展情况，并结合外部形势制定下一阶段的发展战略及行动计划，迄今已在明斯克、塞维利亚、马德里和利马召开四届。

第五届世界生物圈保护区大会将于2025年在我国举办。这将是世界生物圈保护区大会首次在我国举办，也是该大会首次在亚太地区举办。本次大会在华举办将有助于传播习近平生态文明思想，系统展示我国近年来生态文明建设成就，同时深度参与人与生物圈计划下一阶段全球发展战略和行动计划的制定，推动全球发展倡议落实，为全球生态环境治理和构建地球生命共同体贡献中国智慧。

我国于1973年正式加入联合国教科文组织人与生物圈计划，并于1978年经国务院批准成立中国人与生物圈国家委员会。委员会主席单位为中国科学院，生态环境部、农业农村部、国家林草局和中国联合国教科文组织全委会为委员会副主席单位，国家发改委、自然资源部、住建部、水利部、文旅部、中国科协、中国气象局和国家广电总局等8家部委和四川、内蒙古和云南等３省/自治区是委员单位。委员会常设办事机构（秘书处）设在中国科学院。

China wins the right to host the 5th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves of UNESCO

In May 2022, with the approval of the State Council, China formally submitted the bid of hosting the 5th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves (WCBR) to UNESCO. Recently, the Assistant Director General of UNESCO sent a letter to China National Commission for UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme, confirming that the 5th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves will be held in China in 2025. After the conference, UNESCO will also hold the 37th session of the MAB International Co-ordinating Council in China.

The MAB Programme is a large-scale intergovernmental scientific program officially launched by UNESCO in 1971, focusing on promoting the harmonious integration between people and the environment by combining the natural and social sciences with economics, education and capacity-building.

The World Biosphere Reserve Network (WBRN) built on the basis of this programme is the largest and oldest collection of nature reserves in the UNESCO system. At present, it has 738 world biosphere reserves in 134 countries and regions, covering a total area of 5% of the earth's land surface. The WCBR is the largest international conference in the MAB Programme system. It is held every ten years or so to summarize the development of the MAB Programme and the WBRN in the last phase, and formulate the development strategy and action plan for the next stage in combination with the external situation. So far, it has been held in Minsk, Seville, Madrid and Lima for four times.

The 5th World Congress of Biosphere Reserves will be held in China in 2025. This will be the first time that the WCBR is held in China, and also in the Asia-Pacific region. It will help disseminate ecological civilization ideas, systematically demonstrate China's achievements in ecological civilization construction in recent years, and at the same time deeply participate in the formulation of global development strategies and action plans for the next phase of MAB, promote the implementation of global development initiatives, and contribute Chinese wisdom to global ecological and environmental governance and the building of a Shared Future for all life on Earth.

China formally joined the UNESCO’s MAB Programme in 1973, and the China National Committee for UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB China) was established in 1978 with the approval of the State Council, with the support of Chinese Academy of Sciences in collaboration with other ministries engaged in the administration of environmental conservation, forestry, agriculture, education, ocean and atmosphere, and so on. The secretariat of MAB China is located in the Chinese Academy of Sciences.