On 2026, November 3–4, Foreign Environmental Cooperation Center of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment organized the Roundtable Dialogue on CICA Urban Ecological Safety: Coordinated Control of Sandstorms and PM2.5 in Beijing in a hybrid format. More than 100 representatives attended the Dialogue, including representatives from Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China and its directly affiliated agencies, local ecology and environment departments, environmental authorities from CICA Member States, namely Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, Cambodia, and Qatar; as well as the CICA Secretariat, the United Nations Environment Programme, Clean Air Asia and other international organizations, research institutes, universities and enterprises.

Opening remarks were delivered by Zhuo Zhuang, Deputy Director General of Department of International Cooperation, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China; Zhang Ling, Deputy Secretary General of CICA; Di Weijie, Deputy Director General of Foreign Environmental Cooperation Center, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China; and Li Yang, Deputy Division Director of Department of Atmospheric Environment, Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China. The Dialogue aims to build an exchange platform for Urban Ecological Safety and atmospheric environmental governance among CICA Member States, and to share policy experiences, technological achievements, and cooperation needs on topics such as coordinated governance of dust and PM2.5 and the prevention and control of desertification.
The Roundtable featured four major themes: Synergized Dust-PM2.5 governance policies and actions, practical approaches and commercial solutions for dust and PM2.5 control, regional joint research partnerships and prospects for cooperation and research and technology matching event on desertification prevention and control. Experts from environmental regulatory agencies, research institutes, universities, and enterprises shared practical case studies on atmospheric environmental management, covering topics such as atmospheric monitoring, dust storms and health, PM2.5 regulation, remote sensing applications and urban governance, dust particle evolution and its climate effects and the application of thermal oxidation techniques in the reduction of atmospheric pollutants, and deeply explored the practical challenges and cooperation needs related to international collaboration on desertification control, dryland resilience, and the improvement and management of halophytes.

The participants agreed that the coordinated governance of dust and PM2.5 and the prevention and control of desertification are important components of regional ecological safety and atmospheric environmental governance. They emphasized the need to further strengthen policy dialogue, monitoring and early warning, health risk assessment, application of remote sensing technologies, urban governance practices, and exchange of commercial solutions; deepen regional joint research partnerships; promote the matching of technologies, projects, and partners; and advance regional urban ecological safety and green and sustainable development.