CHINA CONTRIBUTION
Ranging from global peace and development to South-South Cooperation and women's rights, President Xi has pledged China's support in various aspects.
During Monday's general debate, Xi announced that China will establish a 10-year, 1-billion-U.S. dollar China-UN peace and development fund to support the UN's work, and it will set up a permanent peacekeeping police squad and build a peacekeeping standby force of 8,000 troops.
Meanwhile, China will provide 100 million dollars of free military assistance to theAfrican Unionin the next five years to support the establishment of the African Standby Force and the African Capacity for Immediate Response to Crisis.
Also on Monday at the UN Peacekeeping Summit, Xi said China will help train 2,000 peacekeepers for other countries in the next five years and launch 10 minesweeping assistance programs.
But those are not all of China's pledges during the 70th session of the UN General Assembly.
On Saturday at the UN Sustainable Development Summit, Xi said that China will set up a fund, with initial contribution of 2 billion dollars, to support South-South Cooperation and assist developing countries in implementing their post-2015 development agenda adopted at the summit.
Xi said China will also do its best to raise its investment in the least developed countries (LDCs) to 12 billion dollars by 2030.
In addition, China will exempt the debt of the outstanding intergovernmental interest-free loans due by the end of 2015 owed by the relevant LDCs, landlocked developing countries and small island developing countries, the president said.
China has always paid attention to the interests of developing countries, especially African countries.
Also on Saturday at the High-level Round Table on South-South Cooperation, co-chaired by Xi and UN Secretary-GeneralBan Ki-moon, Xi put forth China's "Six 100s" initiative, in which China will make available to other developing countries in the next five years 100 poverty reduction programs, 100 agricultural cooperation projects, 100 trade promotion and aid programs, 100 environmental protection and climate change programs, 100 hospitals and clinics, and 100 schools and vocational training centers.
Also during the period, Beijing will provide 120,000 opportunities and 150,000 scholarships for citizens of other developing countries to receive training and education in China, and help nurture 500,000 professional technicians for the rest of the developing world.
In addition, the Chinese president said that his country will set up an Academy of South-South Cooperation and Development, and provide 2 million dollars of aid in cash for the World Health Organization.
For African countries, China is drawing up a plan to help Sierra Leone and two other Ebola-inflicted countries with economic and social reconstruction and mutually beneficial cooperation, Xi said Sunday while meeting with Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma on the sidelines of the annual session of the UN General Assembly.
Xi said relations between China and the African country are a real testimony to the phrase "a friend in need is a friend indeed."
On Sunday at the Global Leaders' Meeting on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, Xi said that China will, in the coming five years, help other developing countries build 100 "health projects for women and children," send teams of medical experts to provide services, and implement 100 "happy campus projects" to finance the schooling of poor girls and raise girls' school enrollment rate.
China will also host 30,000 women from developing countries for training programs in China and provide 100,000 skills training opportunities in local communities of other developing countries, Xi said.
China will donate 10 million dollars to UN Women for the implementation of the Beijing Declaration and its Platform for Action and the realization of the related goals in the post-2015 development agenda, Xi announced.
