At the UN Climate Change Conference, participants used bamboo fiber tableware made in Chongqing for eating (Picture provided by the interviewee)

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- A reporter of Chongqing Daily recently learned from Zhongxian County that bamboo fiber tableware “Made in Chongqing” appeared at the UN Climate Change Conference. Zhongxian entrepreneur Wang Jianzhong was invited to attend the conference and gave a speech “Replacing Plastic with Bamboo”.

From December 2 to 15, the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference was held in Madrid, Spain. On December 11, local time, the Side Meeting on “Solutions to Climate Change with Bamboo instead of Plastic” jointly sponsored by International Bamboo and Rattan Organization and International Bamboo and Rattan Center of State Forestry and Grassland Administration of China was held at the 25th conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change “China Corner”.

Wang Jianzhong, the chairman of Chongqing Ruizhu Plant Fiber Products Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Ruizhu Company), was invited to attend the meeting and delivered a speech on how to realize “Replacing Plastic with Bamboo” to deal with global plastic pollution.

Using bamboo instead of plastic will be environmental protection, organic health, sustainable and recyclable. The application of bamboo and rattan products is becoming more and more diversified, which can replace high carbon emission materials (such as plastic), wood, reduce the impact of plastic waste and forest resources decline on the environment. Bamboo resources have been identified as an important strategic resource to cope with the challenge of climate change, and also a resource that has not been fully developed and utilized.

Ruizhu Company provided some tableware to the conference and presented it as a conference gift to participants from all over the world. (Translated by Luo Juan, Fathom Language Limited)