Video PlayerClose BEIJING, Oct. 10 -- Putting children first in national poverty alleviation efforts is the most effective way of breaking the cycle of poverty, supporting children to reach their potential and driving national development and growth.
"The physical and mental health in childhood is of utmost importance in one's life," said Zuo Changsheng, director of the international poverty reduction center in China, at the child poverty session of the Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum on Monday.
"If one lives in poverty in childhood, the experience will have a great influence on the future," he added.
Jillian Popkins, chief of social policy and reform for children at UNICEF China started working in China in the early 1990s when poverty was much more prevalent than it is now.
"At that time, parents had to pay school fees and they couldn't provide children with many opportunities," she said.
Since reform and opening up began, about 700 million people have left poverty behind, a figure that represents more than 70 percent of global poverty reduction. At the end of last year, 43 million impoverished people remained in rural areas with the country committed to taking all rural people out of poverty by 2020.
Popkins told Xinhua of the importance of left-behind children. "The most important change I would look for in the next ten years is the numbers of children who are able to live with their parents and access services they need in the places where their parents can find jobs," she said.
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