First China-LAC Development Cooperation Conference

The Rector of the Escuela Superior de Cadres del Estado y del Gobierno (ESCEG), Dr. C. Mercedes Delgado Fernández, speaks at the Conference on Cooperation for Development between China and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), held in Beijing on October 10 and 11, 2024 and organized by the International Center for Knowledge on Development (CIKD). At the meeting, high-level representatives from 11 LAC countries and 7 international organizations met and exchanged views on topics such as cooperation in agriculture, mining and infrastructure; cooperation in global value chains and energy transition; and development in China and LAC countries and global cooperation in the South.
LU Hao, Minister of the Development Research Center of the State Council of the People's Republic of China (ROC) and President of the International Center for Knowledge on Development (CIKD), attended the opening ceremony and gave a speech. In his speech, LU Hao said that this year marks the 10th anniversary of President XI Jinping's proposal to build a China-LAC community with a shared future. He also noted that as a significant outcome of the High-Level Dialogue on Global Development chaired by President XI Jinping in 2022, the CIKD is promoting the establishment of a Global Development Knowledge Network (GDN), of which the China-LAC Development Knowledge Network is a crucial component. In her speech, the ESCEG Rector hoped and expressed the desire that the Conference and the agreements reached between the parties will contribute to strengthening relations between China and LAC, as a model of shared common destiny and a way to promote unity and modernization in the development of the Global South, which presupposes deploying actions that allow reaching consensus in politics through solidarity cooperation, with respect and sincere mutual support in relations between developing countries to jointly face the multiple challenges and the unjust economic order that perpetuates inequalities and poverty towards the relentless search for a better, prosperous, safe and sustainable world for all, inclusive in its diversity, with different levels of scale, asymmetries and experiences, in a Zone of Peace.