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Speakers at a conference pointed to the country’s advances in a number of fields, with one saying it could help support the Global South
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Phoebe Zhangin ShenzhenChina should focus on technological innovation to drive domestic and global development, a forum this week has heard.
China would push for high-quality development and opening up to the outside world, Li Shulei, head of the Communist Party’s publicity department, told the 2025 Understanding China Conference in Guangzhou on Monday.
The event, which ran between Sunday and Tuesday, was attended by around 800 people and technological innovation was a central theme.
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China also strove to help developing countries and worked with all parties to address challenges in global development, Chen Xiaodong, director of the China International Development Cooperation Agency, told the forum.
“By supporting the Global South in strengthening collective self-reliance through China’s own development, and by providing more international public goods through development cooperation, we aim to ensure that the benefits of development are shared more widely and equitably among people of all countries,” he said.
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China was willing to increase funding, provide training, build partnership networks and platforms, he said, and to support projects such as building disease control centres or growing food.
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