UN official lauds role in hunger fight

China has made a remarkable contribution as the international community has worked together on sustainable development issues and achieved huge success, saving millions of people from extreme poverty and hunger, through the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, said Wu Hongbo, UN under-secretary-general for economic and social affairs.

Millennium Development Goals are the measurable targets established in 2000 to reduce extreme poverty by 2015.

Wu said the upcoming UN General Assembly will adopt the post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals as the replacement for the MDGs, which expire this month.