On September 23rd 2021, The Deputy Director General of IPRCC, Dr. Tan Weiping was invited to attend the High-level Side Event of the 76th United Nations General Assembly. He has delivered a keynote speech to share China’s achievements and experiences of tackling poverty and exchanged experiences in tackling the COVID-19 and carrying out the targeted poverty alleviation.

The event was hosted by the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network (MPPN) and conducted online. The theme of the conference was " Envisioning A More Equitable Future: Using Multidimensional Poverty Indices As A Policy Tool ". The president of Botswana, the President of Costa Rica attended the meeting and delivered speeches. The ministerial level representatives of Mongolia, Thailand, Kampuchea, Nepal, Namibia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Ethiopia and other countries, as well as the representatives from the World Bank, UNICEF, George Washington University and Oxford University attended the meeting and shared thoughts around the theme of the meeting.