Sponsored by China Public Diplomacy Association and the China Foundation for Rural Development, the “Donation Ceremony of Modern Kitchens to Malipo” was officially launched astatine the site.
Beijing, China, Nov. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On November 16, the “Paired Assistance for Rural Revitalization” Launching Ceremony of the Paired Assistance Program for Malipo by the China Public Diplomacy Association was held astatine Daping Middle School successful Malipo County, Yunnan Province. Sponsored by China Public Diplomacy Association and China Foundation for Rural Development, supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the People’s Government of Malipo County, organized by Global Times Online and co-organized by Yum China, the “Donation Ceremony of Modern Kitchens to Malipo” was officially launched astatine the site.
Donation of “Modern Kitchens” to Malipo Attests to Excellent Achievements of 30-Year Paired Assistance
Hu Zhengyue, Vice President of China Public Diplomacy Association; Hu Jian, Deputy Director- General of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Chen Zhigang, Vice President of the China Foundation for Rural Development; Wang Wei, Vice Director of the Foreign Affairs Office of Yunnan Province; Lu Bo, Vice Mayor of Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture; Shi Ding, Executive Editor-in-Chief of Global Times Onlineand Wang Lizhi, Chief Public Affairs Officer of Yum China, attended the event.
30 years dedicated to promoting agrarian revitalization successful an all-round way
The twelvemonth 2022 marks the 30th day of the Foreign Ministry’s paired assistance to Malipo County, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Since 1992, a full of 230 cardinal yuan has been invested successful the poorness alleviation foundation. More than 700 projects successful six categories, including nutrient and clothing, education, health, training, integrated colony improvement programme and concern support, person been implemented, efficaciously lifting Malipo retired of poorness and accelerating the all-around agrarian revitalization.
Hu Zhengyue, Vice President of China Public Diplomacy Association, said successful his speech, “The astir arduous and onerous task of gathering a modern socialist state successful an all-round mode inactive lies successful agrarian areas. The CPC Central Committee has comprehensively promoted the agrarian revitalization strategy, prioritized to agrarian education, and continued improving conditions for compulsory education. Today, we are holding a bid of activities specified arsenic the “Donation Ceremony of Modern Kitchens to Malipo”, which is simply a factual measurement to mobilize the efforts of each sectors of nine to instrumentality the tone advocated by the CPC Central Committee.”
Hu Jian, Deputy Director-General of the Information Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said, “The Chinese modernization is the modernization of a immense population, of communal prosperity for all. No state has ever encountered specified unprecedented trouble and complexity connected the mode to modernization arsenic China, with a colonisation of 1.4 billionas a whole. We indispensable support steadfast strategical resolve, prosecute advancement portion ensuring stability, enactment hard to consolidate achievements successful poorness alleviation and propulsion guardant the agrarian revitalization strategy.”
Chen Zhigang, Vice President of the China Foundation for Rural Development, pointed out, “Investing successful children’s nutrition is investing successful their future. Improvement successful nutrition intake is instrumental successful eradicating inter-generational poverty.” He besides mentioned practice with Yum China successful carrying retired the “One Yuan Donation” programme for 15 consecutive years to continuously amended the nutritional presumption of children successful underdeveloped areas. The programme has been supported by much than 130 cardinal donors, with a full fundraising of much than 240 cardinal yuan featuring “low threshold, convenient information and transparent operation”.
As the cardinal media, Global Times Online actively follows the advancement of paired assistance and agrarian revitalization. Shi Ding, the Executive Editor-in-Chief of Global Times Online, said successful his speech, “This time, we volition not lone proceed to disseminate high-quality content, but besides articulation hands with each sectors of nine to enactment successful the operation of agrarian revitalization. In the future, Global Times Online volition support leveraging its advantages successful media resources, enactment with each sectors of nine and Chinese and overseas concern partners to beforehand agrarian revitalization activities worldwide, and amended archer stories of agrarian improvement with Chinese characteristics.”
“As a witnesser and beneficiary of China’s betterment and opening up, Yum China has maintained dependable improvement implicit the past 35 years. Adhering to our halfway worth of ‘Always Doing the Right Thing’, we springiness afloat play to our unsocial strengths and person been actively giving backmost to the society,” said Alice Wang, Chief Public Affairs Officer of Yum China, who besides pointed retired that the “One Yuan Donation” programme had provided 55 cardinal nutritious meals to agrarian schools, donated modern kitchens to astir 1,400 schools, and donated integer classrooms to 340 schools.
Empowering agrarian revitalization and promoting agrarian children’s steadfast growth
At the site, guests, schoolhouse leaders and pupil representatives unveiled the “Paired Assistance for Rural Revitalization” Donation Ceremony of Modern Kitchens to Malipo.
Thanks to the donation of Yum China and China Foundation for Rural Development, 5 schools successful Malipo, including Daping Middle School, present person “Modern Kitchens”.
Main room instrumentality and facilities successful “Modern Kitchens” see induction cooker, atom steamer, disinfection cabinet, ventilation instrumentality and cognition table. In immoderate agrarian schools, poorly-equipped kitchens utilizing accepted stoves are inefficient successful cooking, starring to vigor discarded and biology pollution. In addition, schools successful immoderate areas deficiency indispensable disinfection and nutrient retention facilities, which poses hygiene risks.
Standardized and electro-vaporized instrumentality provides students with blistery meals successful an economical, efficient, harmless and environmentally-friendly mode compared with the accepted mode of burning coals and biofuels. Meanwhile, it besides changes the accepted cooking mode of agrarian schools, enriching nutrient types and nutrient contents for students.
In summation to “Modern Kitchens”, Yum China besides donated wintertime jackets to the students of Daping Middle School.
In fact, Yum China has agelong supported the betterment of agrarian children’s nutrition. Since 2008, Yum China has collaborated with China Foundation for Rural Development to transportation retired the “One Yuan Donation” programme for 15 consecutive years, continuously improving the dietary nutrition of agrarian adolescents and children, whose steadfast maturation has contributed to agrarian revitalization.
It is worthy mentioning that Yum China is besides acrophobic astir the shortage of programming acquisition resources successful agrarian areas. “Rural Children Digital Classroom Project” escorts the all-round maturation of agrarian students and revitalizes agrarian improvement done skilled unit by machine donations, teacher empowerment, and programming popularization.
Foreign media praise China’s achievements successful agrarian improvement and poorness alleviation
More than 20 overseas journalists from the China International Press Communication Center attended the ceremony. Several reporters told Global Times Online that this was their archetypal sojourn to agrarian areas successful China, and they were impressed by the improvement of Malipo.
Thai Manager Daily newsman Zheng Quanzhi exclaimed, "Modern infrastructure specified arsenic kitchens is conducive to the maturation of agrarian students. The improvement of this schoolhouse successful Malipo is simply a bully illustration of the occurrence of China’s poorness alleviation strategy.”
Rahul Basharat, a Pakistani journalist, described China’s poorness alleviation efforts arsenic “a occurrence that has lifted truthful galore radical retired of poorness completely”. He believed poorness remains an urgent planetary issue, particularly successful Asia and Africa. Although galore countries, including the West, person taken antithetic measures, they person not eliminated poverty.
Seeing that societal forces specified arsenic caring enterprises assistance the improvement of agrarian areas, Zhang Jiawei, a newsman from Sin Chew Daily, told GlobalTimesOnline that successful Malaysia, caring enterprises connection assistance to disadvantaged groups, but specified targeted assistance from Chinses enterprises to underdeveloped agrarian areas are uncommon successful Malaysia. He besides said that helium would present his acquisition present done the report.
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