Worldwide reckoning

Wang, from the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation, said the CPC has always emphasized a people-centered development philosophy and that global issues cannot be solved by one country alone.

"That is why China's global development cooperation has always sought to help other nations attain their sustainable development goals with the implementation of concrete projects and funding programs," she said.

Chea Munyrith, president of the Cambodian Chinese Evolution Researcher Association, said China has shared rural development expertise with Cambodia through the launch of various projects at village level.

"The projects have helped Cambodian people build roads to villages, supply clean water to villagers, improve the education and health situations, and develop people's livelihood projects," he said in an online interview.

"The pursuit of benefits is to seek benefits together. China is welcoming friends from all over the world through its continued growth, openness and improved business environment, and is gaining worldwide attention through the nation's vision of cooperation and win-win in the sense of providing endless momentum to the global economic recovery."

Mediatrice Hatungimana, a mushroom technology officer at the Rwanda Agriculture Board, said Chinese experts shared a technology to grow mushrooms — significantly empowering women farmers in the African nation.

The Juncao technology, a method that uses chopped grass as a surface for growing edible and medicinal mushrooms, and as forage for livestock, was invented by Lin Zhanxi, a professor at Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, in the 1980s.

Hatungimana said the technology has been shared with more than 20,000 farmers in Rwanda since Chinese experts demonstrated it to train farmers in 2016.

Rwanda now has 34 cooperatives, 16 companies and more than 8,500 households devoted to mushroom production by using the technology, she said.

"The technology is bridging gender equality gaps in agriculture, and also ensuring women's equal participation in the value chain, as mushroom farming does not require a lot of expertise," she said.

It also offers a solution to malnutrition problems among children and has helped Rwanda strengthen food security, she added.