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Xi's push for pandemic response advances world's people-centered development

Editor's note: China Daily presents a series of reports illustrating how the Global Development Initiative, proposed by President Xi Jinping, will help countries around the world to shore up robust, green and more balanced growth amid unprecedented challenges. This is the third installment of the series.

Leaders, officials and senior experts from around the world are urging countries to stay true to "people-centered development"-a belief pursued by President Xi Jinping and China－to effectively tackle the mounting fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Martin Raiser, the World Bank's country director for China, warned that the pandemic is "worsening global inequality", as "the advanced countries are recovering quickly, while low-income countries in 2021 will grow at the lowest rate in the past 20 years".