[Commentary] On the afternoon of November 24th, the "2020 Global Poverty Reduction Partnership Seminar" was held in Longnan, Gansu Province. The live video of the event was linked with high-level representatives of UN agencies, officials from developing countries such as Latin America and Africa, and Chinese and foreign guests online Attended the meeting.
With the theme of "Global Poverty Reduction Innovation and Cooperation in the Post-epidemic Era", guests from home and abroad discussed how to narrow the digital divide on a global scale, so that the poor can benefit from digital innovation, and accelerate anti-epidemic cooperation and poverty reduction knowledge. Sharing and communication.
Ou Minxing, the acting representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in China, admitted in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency that China has rich experience in poverty reduction and hopes to bring the best poverty reduction cases to the world.
[Concurrent] Marielza Oliveira, acting representative of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization in China
Yesterday we heard the good news that China has lifted 832 counties out of absolute poverty. China has rich experience in poverty reduction in both urban and rural areas. These experiences can be used for reference by different countries.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has been cooperating extensively with China for many years. It has also witnessed China's poverty reduction experience and shared its poverty reduction experience with other countries in the world.
[Commentary] Qu Sixi, the representative of the World Food Program in China, told reporters that the World Food Program is the largest humanitarian aid organization. This organization came to China at the beginning of reform and opening up and has a history of cooperation with China for 40 years. Over the years, it has witnessed China's progress and prosperity, and is also a participant and contributor to China's tremendous poverty alleviation achievements. Now it is more necessary to strengthen international cooperation to share China's experience.
[Concurrent] Qu Sixi, Representative of the World Food Program in China
In the case of the new crown epidemic, it is even more necessary to strengthen the development of international cooperation, especially in poverty alleviation, including strengthening cooperation in investment and trade, and at the same time strengthening the sharing of experience and advanced technology. Then China has a lot of experience and advanced new technologies in poverty alleviation. It is also very important to share China’s advanced experience through South-South cooperation.
For example, Gansu is not very good in terms of natural conditions. The terrain is diverse, and most of them are arid agriculture, and the water shortage is also severe. Gansu has many advanced technologies in this area, including dryland crop cultivation techniques. Including the e-commerce companies I have come to visit now, how to sell products in Dashan through the new marketing method of e-commerce is very good, and there should be many aspects of experience.
[Explanation] Matteo, the representative of the International Agricultural Development Fund in China, said that some people may question China’s poverty reduction performance or whether China’s poverty reduction line is too low, but China has improved the living standards of hundreds of millions of people in a relatively short period of time. This must be recognized, and the agricultural population is very optimistic about the development of e-commerce.
[Concurrent] Matteo Marchisio, Representative of International Agricultural Development Fund in China
The main problem in reducing poverty is that you have to help farmers enter the market so that they can sell products and increase income.
So in the past, our main investment direction was to build roads connecting farms, markets and warehouses to help farmers store and sell.
Earth-shaking changes have taken place in the world today. Farmers can directly sell products to consumers through e-commerce platforms.
[Explanation] This conference is co-sponsored by China Foreign Languages Administration, Gansu Provincial People's Government, China International Poverty Alleviation Center, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, International Agricultural Development Fund and World Food Program.
It is reported that the Global Poverty Reduction Partnership Symposium has been successfully held in Rome, Italy for three consecutive sessions. It has become an institutionalized platform for the exchange of poverty reduction experience between China and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the International Fund for Agricultural Development, and the World Food Program. Knowledge sharing in the field of poverty reduction.
Li Yalong and Yan Jiao report from Longnan, Gansu
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