The UN FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva said at the Seminar on Global Partnership for Poverty Reduction on April 28, 2017 that besides accomplishing its own goals, China allows other countries to benefit from its development through South-South cooperation. It is hence especially praiseworthy.
Bert Hofman, World Bank Country Director for China, Mongolia and Korea, said at the 2017 China Poverty Reduction International Forum held on May 26 that the Chinese government has achieved phenomenal success in reducing poverty, by helping around 800 million people to work their way above the poverty line since 1980, accounting for three-quarters of global poverty reduction during that period. In this regard China has made significant contributions to global poverty reduction.
“Ten million people will be taken out of extreme poverty every year for the next four years. That is 10 years ahead of the schedule for the first of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It is not only impressive for China but sets an example for other countries in their efforts to eradicate extreme poverty,” Wu Hongbo, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, said in a press conference at the UN headquarters on May 22, 2017.
Ashwani Mutthoo, IFAD’s Director of Global Engagement, Knowledge and Strategy Division, said at the Seminar on Global Partnership for Poverty Reduction on April 28, 2017 that it is obvious to all that China’s way to reduce poverty is efficient and effective. The theory and practice of China’s targeted poverty reduction shows that with policy support and appropriate measures, it is possible to completely eradicate poverty.