Online Reporter
Walter Nyamukondiwa in Ningxia, China
SENATE president and Zanu PF Women’s League Secretary Cde Mabel Chinomona is leading a Zimbabwean delegation attending an international seminar on China’s poverty alleviation matrix in China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
The seminar seeks to analyse Chinese President Xi Jinping’s thoughts on poverty alleviation and how countries in the Global South, including Africa, Asia and Latin America, can adopt or fine-tune them to their relevant conditions.
It is dubbed: “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and its Relevance to the World” and is running under the theme, “Path to Modernisation — Takeaways from China’s Theory and Practice in Poverty Alleviation.”
The seminar, hosted by the International Department of the Communist Party of China (IDCPC) in partnership with the Ningxia authorities, has brought together delegations to study China’s poverty alleviation model firsthand, with Ningxia presented as a flagship case study of the theme’s central thrust.
It seeks to turn the development theory into lived results. Cde Chinomona’s delegation has toured several sites central to Ningxia’s transformation, among them the Paddy-Fish Space Eco Park, the Minning Pavilion for East-West Paired Assistance, the Erke Factory, a green energy supply station, the Ningdong Sci-Tech Innovation Pavilion, and Ningxia’s coal and new materials industries.
A reception dinner was hosted for the delegates from about 50 countries on Wednesday night, with Zimbabwean envoy to China Ambassador Abigail Shoniwa also attending.
Cde Chinomona is set to deliver a speech together with the Communist Party of China (CPC) officials, including International Department Minister Mr Liu Haixing and deputy Mrs Sun Haiyan, among others.
Ningxia has risen from one of China’s poorest regions to a modern industrial economy, growing from a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of around 24,2 billion yuan in 1999 to approximately 569,6 billion yuan by 2025.
Per capita GDP rose from 3,926 yuan in 1996 to nearly 77,981 yuan last year.
