The Second ASEAN Plus Three High-level Workshop on Poverty Reduction Held in Beijing

　　On 25th September 2006, the Second ASEAN Plus Three High-level Workshop on Poverty Reduction hosted by China State Council Leading Group Office for Poverty Alleviation and Development (LGOP) and jointly organized by International Poverty Reduction Center in China (IPRCC) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) was convened in Beijing. The workshop was a grand follow-up to the First ASEAN Plus Three High-level Workshop on Poverty Reduction.
　　The workshop was attended by government officials from 10 ASEAN members including Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam and China, Japan and Korea and ASEAN Secretariat, with nine delegations headed by ministers. Observers from Asian Development Bank, World Bank, United Nations World Food Programme, DFID, GTZ, and other multi-lateral and bilateral organizations also participated in the event. Hui Liangyu, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of Chinese State Council presented at and addressed the opening ceremony on behalf of Chinese Government.
　　The workshop achieved the expected goals of reviewing and assessing the ongoing efforts with poverty reduction and conducting exchanges and discussions over the measures to enhance the initiative and improve the efficiency of poverty reduction efforts by expanding consensus, strengthening exchange, promoting collaboration, building up platform and increasing aid. In an aim to expand the consensus reached at the workshop and to follow up the measures and strategies devised by the workshop, China State Council Leading Group Office for Poverty Alleviation and Development (LGOP) released the Beijing Proposal for the Second ASEAN Plus Three High-level Workshop on Poverty Reduction.