Poverty Elimination: 2018 Beijing Forum on Human Rights focuses on poverty elimination

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A forum focusing on human rights opened in Beijing this week. One big hope is to reduce poverty - it's a goal experts say China is meeting. Our reporter Su Yuting has more.

Reducing and eliminating poverty have always been goals and basic rights of all people in their pursuit of a happy life.

That's the message sent out by hundreds of officials and scholars from around the world attending the 2018 Beijing Forum on Human Rights.

The theme of the two-day forum is "poverty elimination: seeking common development to build a community of shared future for human beings."

HUANG KUNMING, MINISTER PUBLICITY DEPARTMENT OF THE CPC CENTRAL COMMITTEE "As President Xi Jinping said, China's reform and opening-up play a decisive role in determining the nation's destiny. The policy has changed the current situation of China and its people, and is writing a new chapter in China's cause of human rights."

Many say the forum has provided the platform for South-South Cooperation and experience-sharing in poverty alleviation.

LORD DAVIDSON HOUSE OF LORDS, THE UNITED KINGDOM "I think this forum is very important, it brings people from all across the world to exchange ideas, an area like human rights."

While combating poverty at home, China also actively helps other developing countries address their poverty problems.

D.R. KAARTHIKEYAN PRESIDENT OF AGE CARE INDIA "What the government has done in reducing poverty over the last forty years is equally a miracle, which is achievable."

BENJAMIN DAVIS FOOD & AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS "I know China has the goal to eliminate extreme poverty in the next two years, it's a fundamental part of dignifying the status of people's living conditions. I think it's an important contribution to human rights."

SU YUTING BEIJING "China aims to lift at least another 10 million people out of poverty this year. The country hopes to eliminate absolute poverty by 2020 as part of the creation of a 'moderately prosperous society'. Experts believe China's progress in reducing poverty will significantly contribute to the decline in global poverty. Su Yuting, CGTN, Beijing."