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At the critical moment when the United Nations and governments are discussing the Post-2015 Global Development Agenda and the Chinese government is planning its poverty-relief programs to build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, more than 100 delegates from the Chinese government organs, enterprises, civil organizations, academic institutions and international organizations, some developing countries attended the “Eco-civilization and Open-ended Poverty Reduction” sub-forum of the Eco Forum Global Annual Conference Guiyang 2015. Around the theme of eco-civilization and open-ended poverty reduction, the delegates had in-depth discussions over a range of issues, including rural social governance and anti-poverty, social participation in anti-poverty and rural social governance, development of mountainous areas and green poverty reduction, and forged the following consensus：
I. We agree that open-ended poverty reduction is an important concept of poverty reduction and a dialectic unity of opening and poverty reduction.
Along the development of poverty-stricken areas, both opening and poverty reduction are indispensable and characterized by mutual integration, interdependency and mutual promotion. Opening can facilitate the amelioration of hard and soft environments for regional development, the innovation in development mechanism and the improvement of social governance structure. Practices show that opening is a vital source of faster local economic development, better social governance and higher science, education, culture and heath levels. Therefore, it can improve the material and cultural life, promote the social employment and increase the welfare for poor areas while laying the foundation for poverty reduction mechanism innovations. The dialectical unity between opening and poverty reduction is a key principle for innovating poverty reduction modes, enhancing poverty reduction effects and achieving sustainable anti-poverty development. Open-ended poverty reduction will more effectively promote social vitality, drive community development, intensify social stability and help create more open economic and social development environments in impoverished areas.
II. We agree that poverty is multidimensional and open-ended poverty reduction shall take multiple approaches.
Sustainable and effective anti-poverty efforts are embodied not only by higher cash income, improved material life and increased total assets owned by poverty reduction objects；but also by the growing action capability of the poor groups（the subject of anti-poverty）, the further realization of equal development rights, the sustainable growth of social cooperation mechanism, the growing ability of communities in sustainable development, the rising level of social policies for poor areas and the continuous enhancement of community-based social capital, in addition to the support for a dignified, valuable and guaranteed life. Given the multidimensional criteria for poverty measurement, we shall constantly expand and improve the poverty reduction strategy and policy system accordingly, advance poverty reduction under the concept of opening and further open up in poverty reduction.
III. We agree that “green development” and “green poverty reduction” have become a global consensus and a strategic choice for anti-poverty in the new era.
Since a favorable ecological environment is a significant basis and precious resource for the fight against poverty, anti-poverty efforts shall openly absorb the ecosophy of the natives, ensure and promote ecological diversity and sustainability. To combine anti-poverty with eco-civilization improvement means to implement the strategy integrating green development with poverty reduction in poverty-stricken areas. We should promote green development and realize green poverty reduction under the premise of sustainable development and sustained poverty reduction. The nature and core of green poverty reduction-a new change in the philosophy of poverty reduction-is putting people first, changing the concept, innovating the pattern and improving the quality of development. Under the perspective of open-ended poverty reduction, green poverty reduction also involves respecting and pooling the wisdom of the local poor people in maintaining a favorable ecological environment, as well as proving external guidance and support for their capacity improvement.
IV. We agree that open-ended poverty reduction requires the joint promotion by the government, the market and the society and the full involvement of poor communities and poverty reduction objects.
It is a common cause of all mankind and the whole society to fight against poverty. Grounded on extensive, active and in-depth social cooperation, open-ended poverty reduction shall lay more emphasis on the support for the comprehensive development of poor areas, the improvement of the comprehensive abilities of target groups, the cultivation of social capital for target groups, and the stable ability growth of communities in welfare production ability, sustainable environmental management and public affairs administration. Besides, great efforts shall be made to improve the mechanism of participation by relevant groups in project planning, implementation, monitoring and assessment links, to fully arouse the enthusiasm of the participants and guarantee their participating rights and interests, to fully respect the dominate role of poverty reduction objects and poor communities, to innovate the social organization and enterprise participation mechanisms, to complete the legal systems for fighting poverty, and to quicken the governance over development-oriented poverty reduction and the modernization of governance capacity.
V. We agree that open-ended poverty reduction shall properly cope with the relations between the historical inheritance of traditional villages and the protection and development of national and folk culture, and promote the opening, sharing and leveraging of historical and cultural resources while protecting them.
Aside from essential capital support, talent, technology and knowledge support are more pressing and most effective for leading traditional and ethnic villages out of poverty. Talents with expertise and proficient in management and operation play a decisive role in cultural industrialization and the protection and development of heritage industries. By virtue of ever-changing technologies, tools and behavioral patterns such as cloud storage, bit data, we media and ecommerce, open-ended poverty reduction will transform the socioeconomic conditions of poor areas with the concept and mode of “industrialization” and adhere to the concept of “protection” in development so as to ensure the cultural authenticity and sustainability of ethnic minority areas.