Online Meeting between Chinese Team and Poverty Reduction Fund
Topic: Research on the Mutual Reference of China’s Poverty Reduction experiences under Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Frame -Theory and practice of CDD projects in China
In beginning of 2020, Chinese researchers and Poverty Reduction Fund signed a contract to conduct a joint research on the impact of Community Driven Development (CDD) on rural development of China, aiming to exchange and share policies and best practices on CDD among Lancang Mekong Cooperation countries (LMCs). On 24 July 2020, the meeting was organized through skype application at PRF Office, with a total of 20 participants (7 women), through online application. The research outcomes of Chinese team included good academic profundity, innovative viewpoint, reasonable structure and consecution, as well as various techniques of expression. The presentation had shown progressive results through different factors of rural development.
Dr. Wenyan Lei, team leader of China, stated that CDD programs in China have achieved good project results in empowering farmers, targeting poverty alleviation needs and poverty targets, improving project sustainability, enhancing the capacity of farmers and communities, and alleviating poverty. Meanwhile, the practice of CDD in China has accumulated valuable experience and lessons for enriching, innovating and improving China's original poverty alleviation mechanism. Drawing on theory of community-led development and its practical experience has certain enlightenment significance for improving China's targeted poverty alleviation work.
On the other hand, the research argues that China’s experience of poverty reduction is a product of China’s specific historical, political, and economic and social development. The pilot and exploration of CDD project, to a certain extent, has enriched and accumulated China's experience in poverty reduction. In the face of targeted poverty alleviation and the “"post-poverty reduction” period when China achieves a well-off society in an all-round way after 2020, how to effectively share the substantive connotation of China's development and poverty reduction experience with the international community, rather than simply copying, is the core of the internationalization of China's experience.
