The 8thASEAN+3 Village Leaders Exchange Programme Opens in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan
On the afternoon of May 6, 2019, the 8th ASEAN+3 Village Leaders Exchange Programme was opened in Hebian village of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. It is hosted by International Poverty Reduction Center in China (IPRCC), organized by China Institute for South-South Agricultural Cooperation in Agriculture, and jointly supported by ASEAN Secretariat and the ADB-PRC Regional Knowledge Sharing Center. Nearly 90 people from 10 ASEAN countries, China and South Korea, including relevant government officials, grassroots village leaders, experts and scholars, and representatives from ASEAN Secretariat and China-ASEAN Center attended the opening ceremony.
Opening Ceremony
Zhang Guangping, deputy director of IPRCC, Elias Labro, chief administrative assistant of the National Anti-Poverty Committee of the Philippines, Yang Yanying, chairman of the Political Consultative Conference of Mengla County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, and Ajeng Pratrw, Project Officer of the Poverty Eradication and Gender Division of the ASEAN attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches.
Zhang Guangping, deputy director of IPRCC attended the opening ceremony and made a speech
During the exchange, besides the discussion at the meeting, delegates learnt the effective practices of dealing with deep poverty in Hebian Village, and the Yao culture. They went to Manli Village for field visits, interacted with the villagers, and visited the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to learn about protection and development of Chinese tropical plants.
The ASEAN+3 Village Leaders Exchange Programme is an important measure to implement Prime Minister Li Keqiang’s initiative when attending the ASEAN+3 Leaders’ Meeting in 2013. So far, it has been successfully held in China, Malaysia and other places for seven times, becoming an institutionalized exchange event of international poverty reduction for grassroots.
Photo of heads of delegations in ASEAN+3 Village Leaders Exchange Programme
