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China Calls for Eliminating Poverty, Realizing Decent Work
The international community should take immediate actions to eliminate poverty and realize decent work, a senior Chinese official said Thursday in Geneva at the ongoing 89th Session of the International Labor Conference.
Li Qiyan, deputy minister of labor and social security, pointed out that all countries, developing and developed, should become the beneficiaries of globalization. However, he said, the unjust and irrational international political and economic order has not been fundamentally changed and the gap of wealth between the North and South is widening.
Developing countries are faced with more severe challenges than ever in economic development, employment promotion, poverty elimination and realization of decent work, Li added.
He said that in the world today, there are still 160 million unemployed people and 500 million working and living below the poverty line with a daily income of less than 1 U.S. dollar
He urged the developed countries to assume more obligations in debt reduction and provision of economic and technical assistance.
To seize the opportunities of globalization and meet its challenges, Li said, the Chinese government will further improve its social security system, spare no efforts to increase opportunities of productive employment, improve working conditions in workplaces and continuously uplift the living standard of its people.
About 3,000 representatives of governments, enterprises and workers' unions from the 175 member states of the International Labor Organization are attending the labor conference.
The conference, which is taking place here from June 5 to June 21, provides a forum for the tripartite constituents to debate on the issues of decent work deficit, forced labor, cooperatives and social security.
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