China's poverty eradication inspires world

I would like to express my gratitude to the organizers of the 2025 International Forum on Poverty Governance and Global Development for inviting me to the forum. It has given me the opportunity to visit the beautiful province of Yunnan that boasts stunning natural beauty and rich cultural diversity, with five UNESCO sites on the World Heritage List.

Whether it is the Cultural Landscape of Old Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu'er, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2023, or the Three Parallel Rivers National Park in the mountainous northwest of Yunnan (the 1.7 million hectare site features sections of the upper reaches of three great rivers of Asia — the Yangtze, Mekong and Salween rivers that run roughly parallel north to south), the province continues to fascinate the world as the epicenter of China's biodiversity.

Poverty is a major problem that human society has been, and is still, facing in many parts of the world. It is not by chance that the United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted in 2015, put "No Poverty" as the first goal-"To end poverty in all its forms everywhere by 2030". This is fundamental, if we want to "leave no one behind", which is the underlying goal of the UN Agenda 2030.