Poverty reduction

China has long maintained close cooperation with the international community in poverty alleviation and rural development, and expects to deepen such cooperation, Wang Zhengpu, head of the national administration for rural vitalization, said on Monday.

China’s poverty reduction practices, including increased investment in infrastructure construction, targeted poverty alleviation and the mobilization of the country’s impoverished population, are applicable in other countries, Wang said at a sub-forum of the annual Boao Forum for Asia conference.

Doctoral dissertation

Recently, an acknowledgment section from a doctoral thesis has gone viral. The author reviewed his bumpy, challenging road to reach this point, which touched many netizens.

“I have come a long way and endured a great deal of hardships to present this dissertation before you. During 22 years of study, the road has been a rainy and muddy one. It was not easy getting here,” the author, Huang Guoping, of the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, wrote at the beginning of his thesis. In the thesis, he mentioned he was born in a mountainous area and his mother left home when he was 12 years old. His father died in a traffic accident when he was 17, and in the same year, his only remaining family member — his grandmother — passed away.

Sino-US efforts

China and the United States are committed to cooperating with each other and with other countries to tackle climate crisis, according to a joint statement issued on Sunday by the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment.

“Moving forward, China and the United States are firmly committed to working together and with other parties to strengthen implementation of the Paris Agreement,” read the statement.

COVID vaccine

China’s first messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccine will start its Phase III clinical trial in May, China National Radio (CNR) has reported.

The Phase II trial of the vaccine ARCoV, jointly developed by China’s Suzhou Abogen Biosciences (AbogenBio), the Institute of Military Medicine under the Academy of Military Sciences and Walvax Biotechnology Co., is running smoothly and drawing to a close, the CNR reported. (SD-Agencies)