2018年CRI Practice China-Africa Poverty Relief Cooperation 'According to Local Condition'

 

Chinese President Xi Jinping has announced plans to help Africa with various industrialization programs.

CRI's Xu Yawen with more on what has China already done to help speed up economic development on the continent.

The introduction of Chinese fish smokers¹ in Nigeria's Edeha village has had a dramatic impact on the household incomes of local merchants.

Since Chinese expert teams began teaching local farmers how to use new charcoal² smokers to cook their fish, their product draws hundreds to their roadside stands.

Isah Fatimat, a mother of eight said that in the past, when she was using firewood to smoke fish, she earned around 5,000 naira (30 US dollars) every week. Since she started using the new charcoal smokers that learned from Chinese experts, her weekly income has been doubled to 10,000 naira. And now she has enough money to pay for school for her children.

Feng Yong, Deputy Director General for Foreign Economic Cooperation with China's Ministry³ of Agriculture.

"Charcoal smokers introduced by Chinese experts to Nigerian women have dramatically improved their incomes, more than doubling what they earn. In fact, the task of this project is to have Chinese expert teams teach Nigerian farmers how to apply the fish cage culture in the rice fields in order to increase both rice field yields and fish productivity, instead of how to grill⁴ fish. This technology has promoted more than 10,000 hectares, and hundreds of farmers have benefited from doubled rice production."

Zhang Yi, Deputy Director General for the China International Center for Economics and Technical Exchanges, says China-Africa cooperation on poverty reduction is more than just a copy and paste approach.

"FOCAC is a good platform for communications between two sides, to develop. But the development is not only for theories, it's for action plans. How to put those things really happen? There is no single easy approach of copy and paste, no adoption⁵ with no adaption could lead to a good success."

Victoria Sekitoleko, former Minister of Agriculture in Uganda, says she likes the way that China is working to alleviate⁶ poverty in developing countries.

"When China starts doing something, they don't give up. They know that their people who are operating, are human. So now and then, you need to monitor, and sometimes a plan may not be perfect, you need to adjust. So China does not give up, even if things don't go according to plan, they will go back, look again, plan again, and continue with the plan. For me, that works because we grow. So I like the fact that China does not just give up, they keep improving, and moving on."

In December 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that poverty reduction program were to be listed as one of the 10 major China-Africa cooperation plans during the FOCAC Summit in South Africa.

Since then, under the framework of FOCAC, China has implemented⁷ a series of strategies and made great progress in sharing its poverty alleviation⁸ experience with African countries.

Three years later in Beijing, President Xi announced in his opening speech to the FOCAC, that China will carry out 50 agricultural assistance programs, provide emergency humanitarian⁹ food aid to African countries affected¹⁰ by natural disasters, and send 500 senior agricultural experts to Africa.

When sharing its agricultural development and poverty alleviation experience with African countries, there is no such a thing as 'one size fits all'. But just as Sekitoleko pointed¹¹ out, "China does not give up, they keep improving, and moving on."

1 smokers   

吸烟者( smoker的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Many smokers who are chemically addicted to nicotine cannot cut down easily. 许多有尼古丁瘾的抽烟人不容易把烟戒掉。
• Chain smokers don't care about the dangers of smoking. 烟鬼似乎不在乎吸烟带来的种种危害。

2 charcoal   

n.炭，木炭，生物炭

参考例句：

• We need to get some more charcoal for the barbecue.我们烧烤需要更多的碳。
• Charcoal is used to filter water.木炭是用来过滤水的。

3 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

4 grill   

n.烤架，铁格子，烤肉；v.烧，烤，严加盘问

参考例句：

• Put it under the grill for a minute to brown the top.放在烤架下烤一分钟把上面烤成金黄色。
• I'll grill you some mutton.我来给你烤一些羊肉吃。

5 adoption   

n.采用，采纳，通过；收养

参考例句：

• An adoption agency had sent the boys to two different families.一个收养机构把他们送给两个不同的家庭。
• The adoption of this policy would relieve them of a tremendous burden.采取这一政策会给他们解除一个巨大的负担。

6 alleviate   

v.减轻，缓和，缓解(痛苦等)

参考例句：

• The doctor gave her an injection to alleviate the pain.医生给她注射以减轻疼痛。
• Nothing could alleviate his distress.什么都不能减轻他的痛苦。

7 implemented   

v.实现( implement的过去式和过去分词 )；执行；贯彻；使生效

参考例句：

• This agreement, if not implemented, is a mere scrap of paper. 这个协定如不执行只不过是一纸空文。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The economy is in danger of collapse unless far-reaching reforms are implemented. 如果不实施影响深远的改革，经济就面临崩溃的危险。 来自辞典例句

8 alleviation   

n. 减轻，缓和，解痛物

参考例句：

• These were the circumstances and the hopes which gradually brought alleviation to Sir Thomas's pain. 这些情况及其希望逐渐缓解了托马斯爵士的痛苦。
• The cost reduction achieved in this way will benefit patients and the society in burden alleviation. 集中招标采购降低的采购成本要让利于患者，减轻社会负担。 来自英汉 - 翻译样例 - 口语

9 humanitarian   

n.人道主义者，博爱者，基督凡人论者

参考例句：

• She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业，并作了很大的贡献。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

10 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

11 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。