[China] - Xi praises SCO online forum on poverty relief, sustainable development

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday sent a congratulatory letter to the 2025 SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) Forum on Poverty
Reduction and Sustainable Development, held in Xian, northwest Chinas Shaanxi Province.Xi mentioned that poverty obliteration is a typical
goal of all countries in the world.Through strenuous efforts, China has actually won the battle against hardship, accomplished the hardship
reduction target of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 10 years ahead of schedule, blazed a hardship reduction
course with Chinese qualities, and written a new chapter in the history of mankinds battle versus hardship, Xi said.Stressing that the
origin of poverty is insufficient development, Xi stated the SCO has actually actively carried out cooperation on hardship decrease and
sustainable development recently, accomplishing remarkable results.As the turning chair of the SCO, China wants to continually enhance
policy interaction with all celebrations, share poverty decrease experience, deepen practical cooperation, help more countries check out
hardship reduction and sustainable advancement paths that fit their national conditions, and join hands to develop a stunning world devoid
of poverty and with common prosperity, Xi noted.The forum opened in Xian on Tuesday under the style of Sustained Poverty Reduction and
Cooperative Development: Advancing Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development amongst SCO Countries
The online forum was co-hosted by the SCO Committee on Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation and the Peoples Government of
Shaanxi Province.