As the green development concept becomes espoused by growing numbers of Chinese people, many Chinese cities previously plagued by smoggy days are now growingly beguiled by blue skies. This change is thanks to the country’s implementation of a wide range of green development policies.
Now that the Tibet Autonomous Region has successfully shaken off the scourge of extreme poverty, attention has turned towards future development.
China’s development experiences provide substantive lessons to other developing countries, and although they all have different national contexts, China’s experiences can be effectively adapted to address local challenges through the South-South Cooperation platform.
The Chinese experience since 1978 shows that a developing country should take the improvement of people’s livelihood as a top priority, and take poverty eradication as a core human right.
The more refined a legal system is for social security, the clearer expectations the public will have, and much more stable a society will be.
Since its reform and opening-up started, China has implemented the poverty alleviation and development strategy in an organized, planned, and large-scale manner. It has become the first developing country to reach its poverty reduction target, a part of the UN Millennium Development Goals, contributing to the eradication of poverty in the world by more than 70 percent.
China will deepen international cooperation in poverty reduction, participate more actively in global governance, and provide more “China programs” for global poverty management.
Not only is it important for China and other countries to work internally on a restart and return to growth, but also to work together on this global problem that requires both domestic and global solutions.
Those achievements have laid a solid foundation for eliminating absolute poverty which has plagued China for over a millennia.
With effective collective action, poverty in all its forms can be eliminated, and the SDGs can become a reality for everyone, everywhere.
In 2019 alone, about 340 impoverished counties and 10 million people were lifted out of poverty. And Xi has pledged that after the eradication of absolutely poverty in 2020, China will launch a campaign to eliminate relative poverty.
If anybody can show the world how to do that last mile [of ending extreme poverty], it probably is China.
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