The past forty years of reform and opening up in China have seen rapid economic growth and economic and social transformation accompanied by globally-renowned achievements in poverty reduction. Li Xiaoyun, Chair Professor of Humanities and Doctoral Supervisor at the China Agricultural University, gives a concrete account of how China has achieved its goal of eradicating absolute rural poverty in the last forty years, which shows that it is possible for developing countries to integrate a “political commitment to poverty reduction across all sectors of government and society, breaking the constraints of interest groups and administrative bureaucracy to achieve a redistribution of wealth and opportunities.”

Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of the Republic of Cuba, gave the following speech to the Group of 77 (G77) and China on the occasion of Cuba's assumption of the G77 Chairmanship.

Speech by Zhang Xinning, Associate Dean of the School of Marxism, Fudan University People’s Republic of China, at the NIEO 50th Anniversary Congress in Havana. Co-authored by Cheng Enfu.