Timeline: China and UN
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Editor's note:
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, a 193-nation body that began with 51 signatories, including China, at the end of the Second World War. Let's take a look at how China plays its role in the United Nations and how it has honored its commitments to the purposes and principles of the U.N. Charter, as well as how it has helped the U.N. respond to global threats in pursuit of peace and development.
2019
China became the second largest contributor to the United Nations regular budget.
Sept. 28, 2018
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi addressed the general debate of the 73rd session of the U.N. General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York.
Jan. 18, 2017
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at the U.N. Office in Geneva (UNOG), Switzerland. He championed in his speech a world of lasting peace, common security for all and common prosperity, as well as an open, inclusive world and a clean, beautiful world.
2016
China became the second-largest country to share the United Nations' peacekeeping costs.
Sept. 28, 2015
Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed the general debate of the 70th session of the U.N. General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York.
July 24, 2015
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China and the U.N. System in China jointly issued the Report on China's Implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015). According to the report, between 1990 and 2011, China lifted 439 million people out of poverty, reduced the under-five mortality rate by two thirds and the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters, and halved the proportion of the population without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation. Meanwhile, China has been actively engaged in South-South cooperation and provided help with its capability to over 120 developing countries in their efforts to attain the MDGs.
Oct. 15, 2014
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visited the headquarters of FAO in Rome and announced China's new policies for greater cooperation with U.N. organizations. This was the first time a Chinese premier visited the U.N. organization.
September 2014
The mobile laboratory of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) dispatched a testing team to Sierra Leone for Ebola hemorrhagic fever testing. It was one of the first foreign laboratories to assist the country in the virus screening.
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