On 24 March 2016, Chinese Ambassador Zhao Yanbo met with Mrs. Haddijatou Jallow, Executive Chairperson of the Environment Protection Agency-Sierra Leone (EPA-SL). They had an in-depth exchange of views on environment protection, climate change and other issues of shared interest. Mr. Wang Xinmin, Political Counselor of the Embassy and other senior officers from EPA-SL attended the meeting.

Mrs. Jallow expressed her appreciation for China's long-term and all-round support for the socio-economic development of Sierra Leone. She stated that Sierra Leone is the third most vulnerable country in the World in terms of climate change, the flood and drought caused by climate change have caused severe adverse impact on the national development. EPA-SL would very much like to keep close communication with China, learn from China's advanced experience and technology to improve Sierra Leone's capacity on environment protection.

Ambassador Zhao indicated that environment protection is the common responsibility of the whole world, while both the Chinese and Sierra Leonean governments attach great importance to this issue. As the biggest developing country, China has lots of experience and lessons drawn from its own environment protection endeavors. Ambassador Zhao promised that China was ready to share experience and strengthen bilateral cooperation with Sierra Leone in terms of capacity building and technology transfer with a view to improving its capability of environment protection, providing long-term support for the socio-economic progress of Sierra Leone.