The State Council approved setting up the organizing committee and executive committee for the 14th meeting of the Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, according to a circular released by the General Office of the State Council on Nov 9.

According to the circular, the organizing committee will be in charge of reviewing the preparations for the conference, offering guidance to the relevant departments and local governments in their work, deliberating and deciding on major issues related to the preparations, and inviting ministerial-level officials of foreign governments and high-level representatives of international organizations to attend the conference.

Led by the organizing committee, the executive committee will be responsible for organizing and implementing detailed preparatory work for the conference, and its office will be set up in the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.

Lu Hao, minister of national resources, and Wang Zhonglin, governor of Hubei province, will serve as directors of the organizing committee.

The committees will be dismissed after the preparatory work is completed, said the circular.