CIDCA chairman surveys Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development

Chen Xiaodong, chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), made a survey trip to the Peking University's Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development (ISSCAD) on July 30. He held a symposium with Party Secretary of Peking University He Guangcai and learned about the ISSCAD's work progress and development vision. 

Chen noted that the ISSCAD, with support from the central leadership, has been growing steadily and made positive progress and contributions in enhancing exchanges between China and other countries, building consensus on the development of the Global South, and sharing China's philosophies on sustainable development. It has become a widely acclaimed brand name for China's foreign aid cooperation in human resources development, he said. The CIDCA is ready to continue to work with Peking University, striving to build the institute into a communication base for China's experience on state governance, an incubation base of top professionals and a platform for research exchanges among developing countries, he added. Chen pledged to support the institute in disciplinary development and external outreach efforts, in a bid to make greater contributions to the building of a community with a shared future for humanity. 

He Guangcai thanked the CIDCA's long-term support to Peking University, especially to the ISSCAD, with policy guidance, resource input and external communications. He said running the institute is a major political task entrusted by the central leadership to the university. Peking University will take the national strategy as its guiding principle, embrace the mission of serving national needs, strive to achieve new accomplishments in the institute's development and jointly outline a new blueprint for its development, he said.

Also attending the symposium were Vice-Chairman of the CIDCA Zhao Fengtao, Director-General of the CIDCA's Department of International Cooperation Li Ming, Deputy Party Secretary of Peking University Jiang Guohua, Honorary Dean of the ISSCAD Justin Yifu Lin, Dean of the ISSCAD Huang Yiping, and Party Secretary of Peking University's National School of Development Lei Xiaoyan.