China has launched the Center for Disaster Risk Reduction Cooperation with Pacific island countries. Under the initiative, China will share data, technical expertise and emergency supplies with Pacific countries to address common challenges facing the region. Guangdong already hosts a joint reserve with the Pacific islands - the warehouses dispatched emergency relief to Tonga following a volcano eruption last year. The new center in the southern Chinese city of Jiangmen will help train emergency personnel and develop future solutions, many driven by smart city technologies and artificial intelligence. Ambassador of the Republic of Fiji to China, H.E. Manasa Tagicakibau said, "The world needs China. China is reaching out genuinely to offer the assisting hands of cooperation, and the world should grab that assisting hand with both hands, and work together."