FAO / LI KEQIANG

Chinese Premiere Li Keqiang today announced a $50 million donation to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to support the Organization's program of "South-South cooperation" to improve food security and promote sustainable agricultural development over the next five years. FAO

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:40
• Production Date: 15 October 2014
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION - FAO
• Subject Topical: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FINANCING; DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; FISHING; MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS
• Geographic Subject: CHINA
• MAMS Id: 1205155

Description

STORY: FAO / LI
TRT: 2.40
SOURCE: FAO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /CHINESE /NATS
DATELINE: 15 OCTOBER 2014, ROME, ITALY

Shotlist

1.Wide shot, exterior of FAO headquarters
2.Various shots, Li arrives, signs a book
3.Wide shot, delegates
4.SOUNDBITE (English) José Graziano da Silva, FAO Director-General:
“Out of every three people that have been lifted from hunger, since 1990, two of them come from China.”
5.Wide shot, delegates
6.Pan left, Li walking to stage
7.Med shot, delegates
8.SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Li Keqiang, Chinese Premiere:
““The Chinese people of this generation have lived through the era of hunger. We have a bitter memory of hunger and we fully understand the suffering of people who are still hungry. An ancient Chinese philosophy is that we will never do unto others things that we do not want to do unto ourselves, so we want to see hunger and poverty being eliminated around the world. We will provide technologies and experiences with no reservation to the peoples that are still struggling with hunger. Here, I wish to announce that in order to further strengthen cooperation with FAO, in particular South-South cooperation within FAO framework, the Chinese government will donate 50 million USD to the FAO in the next 5 years for carrying out South-South cooperation agriculture. And we will also increase support to WFP and IFAD.”
9.Wide shot, delegates

Storyline

Chinese Premiere Li Keqiang today announced a $50 million donation to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to support the Organization's program of "South-South cooperation" to improve food security and promote sustainable agricultural development over the next five years.

Premiere Li made the announcement in a speech at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy ahead of tomorrow's World Food Day.
It was his first visit to a UN agency since assuming office.

FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva pointed out that China has lifted 138 million people out of chronic hunger. This means that globally, two out of every three people who escaped hunger since 1990.

In 2008 China established a $30 million FAO trust fund to support technical field missions with Chinese agricultural experts in developing countries. So far, 30 thousand Chinese experts have shared their knowledge and experience in over 100 countries. Over one hundred thousand farmers and their families have already benefited from this collaboration and thousands of technicians have been trained in appropriate technical solutions.