Remarks by CIDCA Chairman Luo Zhaohui at the Unveiling Ceremony of the Global Development Promotion Center

Remarks by CIDCA Chairman Luo Zhaohui at the Unveiling Ceremony of the Global Development Promotion Center

(Building 12, Diaoyutai State Guesthouse, November 12, 2022)

Your Excellency Wang Yi, Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, State Councilor and Foreign Minister,

Distinguished Diplomats and Colleagues,

First of all, on behalf of the China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), I would like to extend a warm welcome to all of you. I would also like to express special thanks to State Councilor Wang Yi for his presence and keynote speech.

In September last year, President Xi Jinping proposed the Global Development Initiative (GDI). To implement this initiative, China took the lead in action and announced a host of major measures, achieving fruitful early harvests.

The Report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China also pointed out that China is prepared to invest more resources in global development cooperation.

The CIDCA undertakes important missions, including setting up a development cooperation project pool, holding a Forum on Global Action for Shared Development, upgrading the South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund to a Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund, along with setting up a Global Development Promotion Center (GDPC) Network, a Digital Publicity Platform for Global Development, and an Innovation Training Base of the GDPC.

Today, the establishment of the GDPC at the CIDCA is a major event in the implementation of the GDI.

The CIDCA will seize the opportunity and work harder on how to promote global development through pooling wisdom and efforts, managing resources, coordinating actions, thereby making the GDPC fully functioning.

In line with the UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, the GDI has identified eight major cooperation areas that are urgent for developing countries, such as COVID-19 response, poverty reduction, food security, and connectivity. Following people's will and the tide of the times, these efforts are well-received and supported by many countries and international organizations. The GDI is becoming a common action across the world.

China will continue to work together with all parties to further deepen and substantiate the GDI, so as to make more contributions to moving global development towards a new stage of balance, coordination and inclusiveness and building a community with a shared future for mankind.

Thank you.