Database of success stories helps alleviate poverty

The Chinese government launched on Friday a free database of poverty alleviation cases, aiming to share innovative and successful solutions from China and other developing countries and contribute to the global effort to reduce poverty.

The database, named the Global Poverty Reduction Online Knowledge Sharing Database, works as a portal for knowledge sharing among developing nations. It presents cases in a user-friendly way, while allowing users to upload their own cases, so as to create "a truly global poverty reduction database".

Guo Weimin, deputy director of the State Council Information Office, said at the 2017 China Poverty Reduction International Forum, where the database was released, that knowledge sharing is crucial to the global fight against poverty.