Speakers:

• Lu Qi, President of Institute of Great Green Wall 
• Guo Yufu, UNCCD secretariat representative
• Peter Gilruth, Senior Advisor, CIFOR-ICRAF
• Liu Bing, Director. Northwest North Northeast shelterbelt construction bureau, National Forestry and Grassland Administration
• Jia Xiaoxia, Deputy Director. Department of Combating Desertification, National Forestry and Grassland Administration of P. R. China
• Cui Lijuan, Deputy Director. Chinese Academy of Forestry
• Lei Jiaqiang, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, CAS
• King Saud University (to be confirmed)
• Park Ki-Hyung, National Institute of Forest Science, Korea
• Li Xiaosong, International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals
• Mandaka, Mongolian Academy of Sciences
• Yang Youlin, Former Coordinator, Regional Coordination Office for Asia and the Pacific, Secretariat of UNCCD 
• Cui Guipeng, Deputy Director, General Office of Institute of Great Green Wall

Host

• Department of Combating Desertification, National Forestry and Grassland
• Administration of P. R. China
• Institute of Great Green Wall

Organizers

• Experimental Center of Desert Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry
• Institute of Ecological Conservation and Restoration, Chinese Academy of Forestry

Co-organizer

• Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Institute of Aerospace Information Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• King Saud University
• Tsinghua University

Supporters

• Pan-african Green Great Wall Research Center
• International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals
• China-mongolia Cooperation Center for Combatting Desertification
• China-arab International Research Center on Drought, Desertification and Land Degradation
• China National Sand Control and Desert Industry Society