Summer Davos Forum ｜ ＂China Sample＂ of South-South Cooperation
Xinhua News Agency, Tianjin, June 28th-China has been an active advocate and practitioner of South-South cooperation for more than 70 years. Many people who are attending the 14th Summer Davos Forum in Tianjin, China said that China is playing an increasingly important role in global South-South cooperation with its accumulated experience, technology and talent advantages in agricultural technology popularization, global poverty reduction and public health, providing a "China sample" for reference.
On June 27th, 2023, the participants prepared to walk into the 14th Summer Davos Forum. The 14th Summer Davos Forum was held in Tianjin from June 27th to 29th, with the theme of "Entrepreneurship: Driving Force of World Economy". Xinhua News Agency reporter Sun Fanyue photo
China agricultural technology drives bumper harvest.
To achieve the goal of global hunger eradication, Africa is an important puzzle. The food supply here is seriously threatened by climate change and land desertification, and the agricultural technology in China has provided important help for increasing local food production and improving food security.
In Mozambique, Wanbao Mosang Agricultural Park, which china-africa development fund participated in, is a large-scale rice planting project, which has significantly improved the local rice planting and rice processing technology; In Kenya, the field micro-rainwater harvesting technology from China was applied in the local demonstration area to grow corn, and the yield increased by 99% to 240%. In Burundi, the expert group of China selected and introduced eight kinds of rice suitable for the local area, which solved the historical problem that the local mountainous area often lost production or even failed to harvest due to rice blast.
China has built a number of agricultural technology demonstration centers in Africa, and projects such as "Demonstration Project of Increasing Corn Yield by Thousands of Households and Ten Thousand Mu" have blossomed locally.
In the eyes of South African delegate Malelai, China’s agricultural technology has brought tangible benefits in agricultural innovation, poverty alleviation and food security. He said that he expected more cooperation between Africa and China in food security and mitigation of the impact of climate change.
According to the data of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, by 2021, China has sent more than 2,000 agricultural experts and technicians to more than 70 countries and regions, and promoted and demonstrated more than 1,500 agricultural technologies to many countries, driving the project to increase production by 40% to 70% on average.
On November 27, 2019, cooperative farmers worked in the fields at the Wanbao Mosang Agricultural Park in Mozambique. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Yushe
Medical and health experience in China promotes health.
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the dispatch of China’s foreign aid medical team. Over the past 60 years, China has sent 30,000 medical personnel to 76 countries and regions around the world, treating 290 million patients.
China, together with its partners in developing countries, shared the experience gained in the field of public health in China, shared public health products such as vaccines, and made joint efforts to reduce the disease burden in developing countries and promote global health governance.
The global malaria burden is mainly concentrated in southern countries. There were still 30 million malaria cases in China from the early days of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. By 2017, the number of local malaria cases was reported to be zero, and by 2021, it was certified by the World Health Organization as the national malaria elimination certification … … China’s achievements in malaria control provide a reference for overcoming malaria problems and promoting global health.
In Tanzania, using China’s barefoot doctor model for reference, villagers were recruited and trained to become the core medical staff or volunteers of local medical teams. Learn the work standard of "1-3-7" malaria case report and detection in China, that is, complete the case report within 1 day, complete the case review and epidemiological investigation within 3 days, and carry out the investigation and disposal of epidemic spots within 7 days; Pipequine dihydroartemisinin phosphate tablets produced in China have also been popularized in pilot areas.
Ren Minghui, a professor at Peking University School of Public Health and former assistant director-general of the World Health Organization, said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency during the forum that South-South cooperation in China is open, inclusive and oriented to the needs of South-South countries. Whether China’s anti-malaria technical scheme has been promoted by WHO for many times, or China’s aid to build medical infrastructure and China’s pharmaceutical enterprises’ overseas localized production or technology transfer, China has provided a reference, further localized and concrete scheme for southern countries to strengthen health system construction.
On April 25th, 2023, in Acadia mining area, Zimbabwe, the 20th batch of medical team members from China aided Zimbabwe introduced malaria prevention knowledge. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Baoping photo
China’s program helps to meet global challenges.
At present, international geopolitical conflicts have intensified, North-South cooperation has slowed down, and the development gap has widened, thus facing many challenges in achieving the goal of sustainable development in 2030. According to United Nations statistics, there are still more than 800 million people starving and 350 million people in need of humanitarian assistance in the world, and the momentum of implementing the sustainable development goals has obviously slowed down.
China, with its own development path, has provided the world with a feasible and reproducible reference, and also contributed China’s plan and China’s wisdom to jointly deal with global challenges.
Zhang Jianping, deputy director of the Academic Committee of the Institute of International Trade and Economic Cooperation of the Ministry of Commerce, said that China has set a development model for the southern countries. China’s participation in South-South cooperation does not attach political conditions and requirements like western countries, which provides opportunities for southern countries to improve their own capacity building, development level and development efficiency.
Eliminating poverty is a common challenge facing mankind. As the country with the largest poverty reduction population in the world, China has contributed more than 70% to global poverty reduction, creating a miracle in the history of poverty reduction in the world. Poverty reduction in China has become a research sample of more and more countries and international organizations.
Facing the challenge of global climate change, in 2015, China set up the China South-South Cooperation Fund on Climate Change with 20 billion yuan; Since 2016, China has launched 10 low-carbon demonstration zones, 100 climate change mitigation and adaptation projects, and 1,000 cooperation projects to cope with climate change training places in developing countries, and implemented more than 200 foreign aid projects to cope with climate change.
Zhu Min, vice chairman of China International Economic Exchange Center, told Xinhua that China has accumulated experience and technology in carbon neutral macro management, technological innovation and new industrial layout. At present, China’s photovoltaic manufacturing industry accounts for 90% of the global production capacity and is an important source country of global wind power equipment and electric vehicles. "China has great potential to promote the green transformation of developing countries in terms of carbon neutrality."
Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Sabri said that Sri Lanka’s economy has achieved remarkable growth since China invested in the local area and started infrastructure construction. South-South cooperation is an important mechanism to jointly promote the solution of global challenges, in which China plays an important role.
The "China sample" of South-South cooperation provides enlightenment and reference for developing countries from the perspective of global development. In the long run, more global governance has explored new models and new paths different from those in the West. (Reporter Zhang Miao, Xu Supei, Bai Jiali, Henry Hui Wang, Zhang Yuqi)