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your country on the international stage,” he said.

He was very relaxed chatting with this reporter at the office of the Chinese delegation, located in a deep corner of the COP24 venue, the Katowice Spodek.

He talked fast when mentioning the complex professional jargon used in the negotiations, as well as the articles under negotiation.

“You have to master what you are to negotiate,” he said.

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22,771 registered participants are attending COP24, with 13,898 people representing specific parties, 7,331 observers and 1,541 journalists. Guinea has the biggest delegation with 406 members.

More than 32,000 people have participated in COP24, said Alexsander Saler, a UN climate change official, during a media conference.

There are 91 delegates for China at COP24, according to the provisional list on the UNFCCC’s website. The delegation is led by Li Ganjie, minister of ecology and environment, along with Xie Zhanhua, China’s special representative on climate change.

The delegates are officials and researchers from governmental departments, including the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ministry of Science and Technology, together with experts from universities and institutes.

The delegates vary in age. The Global Times learned from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment that the delegates were born from the 1950s to the 1990s. Many delegates in the negotiations were born after 1985. More than half of the delegates are women. The youngest was born in 1995, Sun said.

To stand for China in international negotiations, the delegates need to make great efforts, even outside the conference. They also have to give up a lot in daily life and work.

By December 21, the negotiations are supposed to be finished. However, according to the example from previous conferences, the ending of the negotiations may be delayed because the parties cannot come to an agreement. The delay could be several hours, or even days.

During COP24, the Global Times talked to several delegates to find out about their lives as negotiators.

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