China-Cambodia Friendship Poverty Alleviation Demonstration Village Project Officially Launched Time：2021/02/05

      On January 29, China Foundation for Peace and Development (CFPD) and Civil Society Alliance Forum, Cambodia (CSAF) jointly held the launching ceremony of the China-Cambodia Friendship Poverty Alleviation Demonstration Village Project in Bati District, Takeo Province. Chea Vandeth, Minister of Posts and Telecommunications of Cambodia, Kemreat Viseth, Chairman of CSAF, Ly Savet, Vice Governor of Takeo Province, Wu Chuanbing, Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia, and Zhang Yaowu, Director of the Cambodia Office of CFPD, attended the ceremony and delivered speeches.

      On behalf of Vice Prime Minister Bin Chhin, Minister Chea Vandeth expressed his gratitude to the CFPD and said that Cambodia's development and progress cannot be separated from China's support and help. The poverty alleviation project funded by CFPD is beneficial to help villagers to improve their working skills and living standards. It is hoped that government agencies, non-governmental organizations and villagers will make joint efforts to build Tanorn village into a China-Cambodia Friendship Poverty Alleviation Demonstration Village.

      Kemreat Viseth said that the CFPD came to Cambodia and has done a lot of public welfare undertakings in Cambodia, which has built a good platform for promoting people to people exchanges between the two countries. The Chinese side's contribution to the construction of poverty alleviation demonstration villages marks the Chinese people's deep affection for Cambodian grassroots people, for which the Cambodian side is deeply grateful. The construction of Tanorn village should make full use of China's experience of poverty alleviation works, give full play to the wisdom of Cambodian agricultural experts and local non-governmental organizations, not only benefit all the personnel of Tanorn village, but also drive and help the villagers in the surrounding areas to common prosperity.

      On behalf of the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia and Ambassador Wang Wentian, Counselor Wu Chuanbing congratulated on the launch of the China-Cambodia Friendship Poverty Alleviation Demonstration Village Project, and said that public welfare undertakings embody the common values of mankind, and the Chinese Embassy in Cambodia will, as always, support the social organizations of the two countries to carry out exchanges and cooperation, so as to build more golden bridges of friendship between the two peoples.

      Zhang Yaowu said that the China-Cambodia Friendship Poverty Alleviation Demonstration Village Project is the largest people's livelihood assistance project launched by the CFPD in the nine years since its entry into Cambodia. The project will be based on the local reality of Cambodia, Chinese experience in poverty eradication in the past 40 years, and strive to build Tanorn village into a place symbolizing the China-Cambodia people-to-people friendship, so as to contribute as much as we can to Cambodia's poverty alleviation works.

      The China-Cambodia Friendship Poverty Alleviation Demonstration Village Project is located in Tanorn village, Bati District, Takeo Province, with a total of 125 households and 556 people. The project will last for three years, with 10 million RMB (about 1.42 million US dollars) invested by the Chinese side to help build rural roads, provide clean drinking water for villagers, improve education and medical conditions, develop livelihood projects including breeding and animal husbandry, carry out skills training, and improve village public environment.

      At the same time of the launching ceremony of the Project, the CFPD has also handed over to the Cambodia side the newly finished two teaching building and supporting facilities of the China-Cambodia Friendship “Friends on the Silk Road” Project.