CIDCA chairman meets with ESCAP executive secretary

On April 11, 2024, Chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) Luo Zhaohui met with Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, with whom he held in-depth exchanges on strengthening cooperation.

Luo primarily introduced the significance and key areas of the Global Development Initiative (GDI) as well as the CIDCA's progress in the implementation of the GDI. He said that China, as a major engine for global and Asia-Pacific regional development, has maintained sound cooperation with ESCAP member states in development assistance. The CIDCA and the ESCAP hold great potential for international development cooperation, he said, expressing the willingness to work with the ESCAP to fully tap respective advantages and align the GDI with the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the ESCAP’s six transformative actions in food, energy, digital connectivity, education, employment and social protection, climate change, and biodiversity, in a bid to jointly build an Asia-Pacific community with a shared future.

Alisjahbana spoke highly of China's development achievements and contributions to promoting international development cooperation. She pledged the ESCAP's continuous support to the GDI and its readiness to deepen cooperation with the CIDCA in areas of wide consensus, such as climate change response and energy transition, so as to achieve early harvest and help other developing countries realize their sustainable development goals.

Vice-Chairman of the CIDCA Zhao Fengtao and officials from the CIDCA's Department of International Cooperation and Global Development Promotion Center also attended the meeting.