Nujiang forum highlights int’l cooperation in poverty governance
The 2025 International Forum on Poverty Governance and Global Development (Nujiang) was held in northwest Yunnan’s Nujiang Lisu autonomous prefecture from March 29 to 30. The forum theme is "jointly promoting rural revitalization and common development".
The 2025 International Forum on Poverty Governance and Global Development (Nujiang) opens in northwest Yunnan’s Nujiang Lisu autonomous prefecture on March 29.
Around 300 diplomats, officials and scholars from 34 countries and international organizations attended the forum, and they discussed on poverty-reduction experiences, the Global Development Initiative, and rural revitalization for common growth.
Yin Dahai, Vice President of iFlytek and CEO of iFlytek Healthcare, said at the opening that iFlytek will further cooperate with Nujiang to jointly chart a new chapter in rural revitalization, contributing wisdom and strength to global poverty alleviation efforts.
"Yunnan is a gene pool of biodiversity and a living fossil of ethnic cultural integration," said Andrey Tehov, Bulgarian Ambassador to China, at the sub-forum on agriculture-culture-tourism integration for beautiful countryside. He emphasized that rural tourism allows visitors to experience the charm of biodiversity, making Yunnan a global attraction.
Nujiang ethnic folks dance to welcome the forum attendees.
The sub-forum on agriculture-culture-tourism integration for beautiful countryside
At the session on green development for rural revitalization, Douglas de Castro, an expert in Brazil-China green ecology cooperation, noted: "China and Latin American countries face similar challenges in regional development. We must jointly set up goals to increase farmers' income."
Kafui Tsekpo, Vice President of the China-Africa Smallholder Farmers Association (Ghana), shared: "We must learn from China’s poverty alleviation experience, progressing step by step to improve the quality of life for Africans." He stressed the need to further China-Africa agricultural cooperation to lift people out of poverty.
Koh King Kee, President of the Malaysian Centre for New Inclusive Asia, said that Chinese modernization requires dual drivers—green development and digital technology, so that people could share the development achievements.
Nujiang ethnic folks get rich by growing cash crops.
The session on green development for rural revitalization
Nujiang ethnic folks talk with a forum attendee.
Reporting by Guo Xiaorong, Zhang Min, Yao Chengcheng, Chen Fei and Li Shouhua; Trans-editing by Wang Shixue