A total of 32 officials from 18 African countries will attend a
15-day training course in China on poverty reduction, which opened
in Beijing Thursday.
At the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation
held last November, President Hu Jintao pledged to strengthen
China-Africa cooperation through eight measures including training
15,000 personnel in all fields in the upcoming three years.
The training course is part of that commitment.
At the seminar, officials from Angola, the Democratic Republic
of Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Mauritius,
Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan,
Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe will learn about China's policies and
practice in poverty reduction, as well as its experiences in social
and economic development.
The African officials will also go to Gansu Province in
northwest China, where they will visit some poverty reduction
programs.
Wang Guoliang, deputy director of the State Council Leading
Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, the leading
organ in China's poverty reduction efforts, said China and African
countries, as the developing nations, have something in common in
relation to poverty reduction.
The two sides should have more exchanges and learn from each
other so as to realize the millennium development goal proposed by
the United Nations, he said.
He said he hopes the officials will learn more about China's
economic and social development through this seminar, which would
help them overcome poverty in their countries.
(Xinhua News Agency June 22, 2007)
