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Canada to Work out Plan to Aid China

The Canadian government is to work out a five-year plan for assistance to China during the 2002-2006 period. The five-year plan will focus on providing aid for environmental protection, ecological development, anti-povertymeasures, the building of legal systems, skills training and other undertakings in west China.


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CIDA working out a five-year plan to aid China

The Canadian government is to work out a five-year plan for assistance to China during the 2002-2006 period, according to the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

CIDA sources say the five-year plan will focus on providing aid for environmental protection, ecological development, anti-povertymeasures, the building of legal systems, skills training and other undertakings in west China.

Study group conducted a three-day inspection tour

  • The CIDA and the Canadian Embassy in Beijing have recently sent a study group to west China's Guizhou Province and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

  • During the three-day tour, the group mainly studied areas like the implementation of China's strategy to develop the western regions, economic development, environmental protection, government administration, and the building of legal systems.

  • Hau Sing Tse, vice president of the Asia Branch with the CIDA, said that Canada is considering further cooperation with China to gradually help some areas in China out of poverty .

  • Tse said that the study tour is aimed at obtaining a general knowledge of west China prior to drafting a detailed aid plan.

  • Tse said that they will also discuss with Chinese government departments like the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation on the plan.

    Over the last five years the CIDA provided 12.98 million Canadian dollars for a women's development program and an environmental protection project in Xinjiang.





    Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

    CIDA supports sustainable development activities in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable and prosperous world.

    Development is a complex, long-term process that involves all of the world's people, governments and organizations at all levels. Working with partners in the private and public sectors in Canada and in developing countries, and with international organizations and agencies, CIDA support foreign aid projects in more than 100 of the poorest countries of the world. The objective: to work with developing countries and countries in transition to develop the tools to eventually meet their own needs.




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