The international community positively evaluates China's achievements in poverty reduction and makes a major contribution to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
China News Agency, United Nations, October 17th. On the 16th, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the National School of Administration of China jointly organized an online seminar on "Strengthening the Role of Public Institutions to Achieve Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development".
A total of 200 representatives including senior ministerial representatives from Costa Rica and Tajikistan, United Nations resident coordinators in Bangladesh and Samoa, and experts from Oxford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology attended the meeting.
Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations, was invited to attend the meeting and delivered an opening speech.
Zhang Jun emphasized that poverty eradication is the primary goal of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
The spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic has had a serious impact on global poverty reduction.
The international community should strengthen its sense of crisis and urgency, firmly practice multilateralism, strengthen solidarity and cooperation, and promote continuous progress in global poverty reduction.
President Xi Jinping attaches great importance to poverty reduction. The Chinese government takes "precise poverty alleviation" as the basic strategy, continues to increase capital investment, and actively promotes innovative models such as vocational education and training, poverty alleviation microfinance, e-commerce poverty alleviation, tourism poverty alleviation, and mobilizes social resources Participate in poverty alleviation and make the best efforts to promote poverty reduction to achieve practical results.
Zhang Jun said that over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, more than 700 million people in China have been lifted out of poverty, contributing more than 70% of the world's poverty reduction.
In 2020, China will achieve the poverty alleviation of the rural poor under the current standards, and achieve the goal of poverty reduction and sustainable development 10 years ahead of schedule.
While eradicating its own poverty, China has always provided assistance to developing countries within its capacity.
China assisted in the construction of 24 agricultural technology demonstration centers in Africa, benefiting more than 500,000 local people, and organized more than 100 poverty reduction training courses.
The joint construction of the “Belt and Road” is expected to help 7.6 million people out of extreme poverty and 32 million people out of moderate poverty.
China will work hard to help developing countries improve their capacity building, promote the common development of all countries, and advance the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
Participants in the meeting positively commented that China's tremendous poverty reduction achievements have attracted the attention of the world, made major contributions to the global implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and provided important examples for countries to achieve sustainable poverty reduction goals, which are worth learning from the international community.
All parties believe that poverty reduction is the primary goal in the field of sustainable development.
Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, global poverty has intensified, and public institutions should play a greater role in poverty reduction.
The international community should provide more targeted assistance to developing countries, focusing on helping them strengthen data collection and statistical capacity building, improve government governance, and promote the formation of a joint force for poverty reduction in public institutions in various countries, and accelerate the realization of the elimination of inequality and poverty reduction. Sustainable development goals.
This seminar was supported by the China-United Nations Peace and Development Fund Development Sub-Fund.
Since its establishment in 2015, the Development Sub-Fund has supported and implemented more than 80 cooperative projects around the world, benefiting dozens of developing countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania, and has played an important role in promoting the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and realizing the common development of all countries. effect.
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