2026 Poverty Alleviation Challenge Kick-off Remarks
致辞整理稿（中英文对照）

Lightly edited from the Zoom auto-transcript; bilingual version for internal review

1. 开场主持 / Opening Moderation

冯舰 / FENG Jian

清华大学经管学院金融系博士生
PhD Student, Department of Finance, SEM, Tsinghua University

English (lightly edited transcript)

Before we begin, I have a quick note for our students. Because of the time difference, today we will have two parts. In the first part, we will have our kickoff for the 2026 exchange program with our Latin American friends online. Basically, we will review the schedule, the rules, the awards, and so on, so that we can all have an overall picture of this program.

After the kickoff, we will have a short break, and then we will have the second half of our event, in which Professor Chen, the Director of the Latin America Center at Tsinghua University, will give a more in-depth introduction to this program. She will also give you some very valuable tips for participating. Our peers at the Tsinghua University Latin America Center will also give you some tips, and we can have a Q&A session.

After that, we will give you the gifts, as we promised. Okay. I see everyone is online now, so shall we start? Okay, let’s start. Maribel, shall we start?

中文对应稿

在正式开始之前，我先给同学们做一个简短说明。由于时差原因，今天的活动会分成两个部分。第一部分是我们与拉美朋友们线上共同进行的 2026 交流项目 kick-off。基本上，我们会一起回顾赛程安排、规则、奖励机制等内容，这样大家就能对整个项目有一个整体认识。

kick-off 之后，我们会有一个短暂休息，然后进入今天活动的下半场。届时，清华大学拉美中心主任陈涛涛教授会对这个项目做更深入的介绍，也会给大家一些非常有价值的参赛建议。清华大学拉美中心的同事们也会再给大家一些提示，我们还会安排 Q&A 环节。

之后，我们也会按照承诺把礼物发给大家。好，我看到大家现在都已经在线了，那我们开始吧。好，开始。Maribel，我们开始吗？

玛丽贝尔 / Maribel Florez

智利天主教大学国际事务副校长办公室全球学习办主任
Director, Global Learning Office, Office of the Vice President for International Affairs, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

English (lightly edited transcript)

Yeah, let’s do it! Sounds good.

中文对应稿

好的，我们开始吧！听起来很好。

冯舰 / FENG Jian

清华大学经管学院金融系博士生
PhD Student, Department of Finance, SEM, Tsinghua University

English (lightly edited transcript)

Okay, hello everyone, good morning and good evening. Welcome to the kickoff of the China–Latin America Youth Responding to Global Challenges — 2026 Poverty Alleviation Challenge program. I am one of the moderators today, and our other moderator is Maribel Florez, who is the Director of the Global Learning Office in the Office of the Vice President for International Affairs at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

Thank you. Let me briefly introduce our program. This program was initiated in 2024, so this is our third year. In 2024, during President Xi’s state visit to Brazil, this program also became one of the official outcomes of that state visit. During these three years, we have witnessed an increasing number of partners, both in China and in Latin America.

This year, in 2026, we have several founding organizers as well as co-organizers. Among the founding organizers, in China we have Tsinghua University; in Brazil, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; in Chile, the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and the University of Chile; and in Peru, Universidad del Pacifico. In addition to the founding organizers, we also have co-organizers this year. In Brazil, we have the Embassy of China in Brazil and the FGV Business School in Sao Paulo, and in Peru, we also have the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

So I think I will stop here, and I will invite Maribel to lead us into the first session of the kickoff, the opening remarks. Maribel, the floor is yours.

中文对应稿

好，大家好，早上好、晚上好。欢迎大家来到“中拉青年应对全球挑战——2026 减贫营”项目的 kick-off。今天我也是主持人之一，另一位主持人是 Maribel Florez，她是智利天主教大学国际事务副校长办公室全球学习办主任。

谢谢。下面我先简要介绍一下我们的项目。这个项目于 2024 年发起，所以今年已经是第三年了。2024 年，在习近平主席对巴西进行国事访问期间，这个项目也成为那次国事访问的官方成果之一。在这三年的发展过程中，我们看到中国和拉美两地的合作伙伴数量都在不断增加。

今年，也就是 2026 年，我们有多家创始主办方和协办方。创始主办方方面，中国有清华大学；巴西有里约热内卢联邦大学；智利有智利天主教大学和智利大学；秘鲁有秘鲁太平洋大学。除了创始主办方之外，今年我们也有协办方加入。巴西方面有中国驻巴西大使馆和圣保罗 FGV 商学院，秘鲁方面还有秘鲁天主教大学。

我就先介绍到这里。接下来我想请 Maribel 带我们进入 kick-off 的第一部分，也就是开场致辞环节。Maribel，接下来交给你。

玛丽贝尔 / Maribel Florez

智利天主教大学国际事务副校长办公室全球学习办主任
Director, Global Learning Office, Office of the Vice President for International Affairs, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

English (lightly edited transcript)

Thank you, Feng Jian. It is my pleasure to be here with you all today. Good morning, good evening. In this session, as Feng Jian was mentioning, you will all have a chance to meet the organizers of this wonderful activity, as well as fellow students from Chile, China, and other countries. Please feel free to say hi in the chat and mention your university, your country, and your social media. Take this time to learn, enjoy, and interact. I hope you really have a great kickoff, and sit back and enjoy what we have planned for you today.

Thank you, Feng Jian. Well, to start this evening off, I would like to introduce all of our founding organizers who will speak to us. First of all, Professor Chen Taotao, Director of the Latin America Center and Director of the Center for China-Latin America Management Studies at Tsinghua University, has a few words for us. Professor Chen Taotao.

中文对应稿

谢谢你，冯舰。今天能够和大家一起参加这场活动，我感到非常高兴。大家早上好、晚上好。正如冯舰刚才提到的，在这个环节中，大家将有机会认识这项精彩活动的组织者，也会见到来自智利、中国以及其他国家的同学们。欢迎大家在聊天区打招呼，也可以写上你所在的大学、你的国家以及你的社交媒体信息。希望大家借这个机会多学习、多享受、多互动。我真心希望大家能有一个很棒的 kick-off，也请大家放松下来，享受我们今天为大家准备的内容。

谢谢你，冯舰。好的，为了开启今晚的活动，我想先介绍一下将要发言的各位创始主办方代表。首先，请允许我介绍清华大学拉美中心主任、清华大学经济管理学院中国—拉丁美洲管理研究中心主任陈涛涛教授。下面有请陈涛涛教授。

2. 创始主办方致辞 / Founding Organizers’ Remarks

陈涛涛 / Prof. CHEN Taotao

清华大学拉美中心主任、清华大学经济管理学院中国-拉丁美洲管理研究中心主任、清华大学经济管理学院教授Director, Latin America Center; Director, Center for China-Latin America Management Studies, SEM; Professor, SEM, Tsinghua University

 

English (lightly edited transcript)

Thank you. Professor Maria Montt, Vice President for International Affairs, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Professor Ana Celia Castro, Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Professor Alicia Salomone, Director of International Relations at the University of Chile; Professor Cynthia Sanborn, Director of the Center for China and Asia-Pacific Studies at Universidad del Pacífico, Peru; all the distinguished guests from our sponsoring institutions, including Envision Group, CGE, and MMG/Las Bambas; all the students and faculty members from Tsinghua, Chile, Peru, and Brazil: good morning and good evening.

This is the third year of the program “China–Latin America Youth Responding to Global Challenges — Poverty Alleviation Challenge.” In the previous two years, we have achieved a great deal together. In 2024, this program was included in the list of outcomes from President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Brazil.

In 2025, the Challenge program brought together more than 300 students from 27 universities across China, Brazil, Chile, and Peru. Around 100 teams registered for the Challenge, among which 39 were transnational teams. In the end, 12 teams won the contest and received awards. Twenty-four Tsinghua students and faculty members traveled to Brazil and Chile to participate in the final round in August 2025, and 36 students and faculty members from Latin America came to China in January 2026 for study visits.

Student projects covered a broad spectrum of poverty-related issues, including agriculture, mining, education, healthcare, energy, and more. In particular, many projects tried to apply AI-enabled solutions.

For these great achievements, I would like to take this chance to express my sincere thanks to all my dear university partners in Chile, Brazil, and Peru; to all the supporting embassies, including the Chinese embassies in Chile, Brazil, and Peru, as well as the Brazilian, Chilean, and Peruvian embassies in China; and to all the generous sponsoring companies.

Based on the experience of the previous two years, I would like to emphasize several key points for this year.

First of all, I would suggest that we change our focus from “poverty alleviation” to “poverty alleviation and development.” From China’s experience, even though we ended extreme poverty in 2021, we still keep working hard on development and trying to stop people from falling back into poverty. So focusing on “poverty alleviation and development” will give people more hope for a sustainable future.

Second, I want to remind our students here that we are doing a real project. I encourage our students to use your own eyes to observe the real phenomena of poverty and work on them. At the same time, this year we have a new initiative to support you. We will invite companies and institutions that are actively tackling poverty challenges in their own work to propose topics and provide mentorship for those who choose them. Additionally, we will also invite institutions with best practices from different countries to raise topics associated with their best practices. In this way, if their topics are chosen, that will help best practices be learned and transferred to other countries more easily. So please pay close attention to these suggested topics.

Last but not least, since a truly great cross-border project requires more time, energy, and effort, if you are not awarded this year, do not be disappointed. We will encourage you to rejoin the program next year. Likewise, we definitely encourage student teams who did win the contest to rejoin the Challenge program this year. We will set specific rules for this. So if you believe your project is promising, just keep working on it, and our Challenge program platform will always support you.

All my young friends here, you are very welcome to the Challenge program. I look forward to seeing you during the course. Thanks, everyone, for listening.

中文对应稿

谢谢大家。Maria Montt 教授——智利天主教大学国际事务副校长；Ana Celia Castro 教授——巴西里约热内卢联邦大学高级研究所所长；Alicia Salomone 教授——智利大学国际关系处处长；Cynthia Sanborn 教授——秘鲁太平洋大学中国与亚太研究中心主任；各赞助机构的嘉宾朋友们，包括 Envision Group、CGE、MMG/Las Bambas；以及来自清华大学、智利、秘鲁和巴西的老师和同学们，大家早上好，也晚上好。

 

这是“中拉青年应对全球挑战——减贫营”项目开展的第三年。过去两年里，我们一起取得了很多成果。2024 年，这个项目被纳入习近平主席访问巴西的成果清单。

2025 年，减贫营汇聚了来自中国、巴西、智利和秘鲁 27 所高校的 300 多名学生。大约有 100 支队伍报名参赛，其中 39 支是跨国队伍。最终，12 支队伍获奖。2025 年 8 月，24 名清华大学师生前往巴西和智利参加决赛；2026 年 1 月，36 名来自拉美国家的师生来到中国参加访学活动。

学生项目覆盖了非常广泛的减贫相关议题，包括农业、采矿、教育、医疗、能源等。特别是，许多项目尝试应用 AI 赋能的解决方案。

基于这些成果，我想借此机会，向智利、巴西和秘鲁各合作高校的伙伴们致以诚挚感谢；向所有给予支持的使馆表示衷心感谢，包括中国驻智利、巴西和秘鲁使馆，以及巴西、智利和秘鲁驻华使馆；同时，也向所有慷慨支持本项目的赞助企业表示衷心感谢。

基于过去两年的经验，我想强调今年的几个重点。

第一，我建议我们把关注点从“减贫”转向“减贫与发展”。根据中国的经验，虽然我们在 2021 年就消除了绝对贫困，但我们仍然持续努力推动发展，努力防止人们重新返贫。因此，把重点放在“减贫与发展”上，会给人们带来更多面向可持续未来的希望。

第二，我想提醒在座同学，我们正在做的是一个真正的项目。我鼓励大家用自己的眼睛去观察真实的贫困现象，并围绕这些问题开展工作。同时，今年我们也推出了一项新的支持举措。我们将邀请那些在自身工作中积极应对贫困挑战的企业和机构提出选题，并为选择这些选题的团队提供指导。此外，我们还将邀请来自不同国家、拥有最佳实践的机构，围绕其最佳实践提出相关选题。这样一来，如果这些选题被选中，就能帮助最佳实践更容易地被学习并转移到其他国家。所以，请大家多多关注这些推荐选题。

最后但同样重要的是，一个真正优秀的跨国项目需要更多时间、更多精力和更多投入。所以，如果你今年没有获奖，也请不要失望。我们会鼓励你明年继续参加。同样，我们也非常鼓励已经获奖的学生团队今年继续参加减贫营。我们将为此制定专门规则。所以，如果你相信自己的项目有前景，那就继续把它做下去，我们的减贫营平台会一直支持你们。

在座所有年轻的朋友们，欢迎你们参加减贫营。我期待在课程期间见到大家。谢谢大家的聆听。

玛丽亚·蒙特 / Prof. Maria Montt

智利天主教大学国际事务副校长
Vice President for International Affairs, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

 

English (lightly edited transcript)

Well, hello everyone. Good morning and good evening in China, Peru, and Brazil — I hope I am not missing any country. Especially to the students, we are very motivated and happy to have you here, and I am also very happy to see many old friends, new friends, and future friends. It is really a pleasure for me to be able to welcome you to this Youth Challenge to alleviate poverty.

On behalf of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, I would like to thank you all for being here and express our sincere thanks to Tsinghua, and especially Professor Chen Taotao, who, with her energy, brings us together once again for such an important challenge. I would like to emphasize how welcome and how happy I am to see all the students from the different universities. By choosing to participate in this initiative, you take an important step — a step that requires commitment, openness, and the willingness to engage with complex realities. Your presence here motivates us, but it also reflects your own motivation, responsibility, and genuine interest in contributing to positive change.

Young people play a vital role in addressing poverty worldwide. You bring energy, creativity, and new perspectives. But as we know, poverty is not only an economic issue: it affects health, education, dignity, opportunity, and overall well-being. Because of this, it is central to address it in order to promote sustainable development and reduce inequality across countries and regions.

This challenge is also a valuable platform for dialogue, collaboration, and exchange. It encourages international and interdisciplinary teamwork, and it allows you to learn about different experiences and perspectives. It also strengthens cooperation between China and Latin America, even though we are 12 hours apart and separated by an ocean. It fosters mutual engagement, understanding, and shared approaches, and helps us find what we have in common as we address global challenges.

So the relationships that you will build throughout this program are equally important. The conversations you have and the connections that you create may influence your future paths — I am sure they will. And the ideas that you develop here can really become the starting point for new initiatives, new research projects, public policies, and different ways of impacting our societies locally and globally.

So your participation, students, sends a powerful message: collaboration is not only possible, but necessary. You show how this is done. You are already the young leaders from China and Latin America who work together with a sense of purpose and responsibility. At the Catolica in Santiago, we are deeply committed to educating global citizens and to supporting young people as they develop the skills, values, and leadership needed to face global challenges. We believe in dialogue, in respect, and in collaboration. And I will emphasize dialogue, respect, and collaboration as key principles when you work in teams from different backgrounds, universities, countries, and cultures.

I am confident that you will approach this challenge with creativity, dedication, and enthusiasm. I wish you great success. You will see us around, and I hope that you will soon have the opportunity to interact very closely with our students from Chile and from our university — although I can already see many of you here from different universities, and it is very nice to see all your messages, so please continue writing in the chat. So thank you very much to all of you for being here. Special thanks to Professor Chen Taotao, whose energy keeps moving us and brings us here again for a third year, pushing this project forward for our students and for the future of both our regions. Thank you very much.

中文对应稿

大家好。向中国、秘鲁和巴西的朋友们道一声早上好、晚上好——希望我没有漏掉哪个国家。尤其是同学们，我们非常有动力，也非常高兴你们来到这里；同时，我也非常高兴见到许多老朋友、新朋友，以及未来的朋友。能够欢迎大家来到这场青年减贫挑战活动，我感到非常荣幸。

我谨代表智利天主教大学，感谢大家的到来，也向清华大学，特别是向陈涛涛教授，致以我们诚挚的谢意。正是她以充沛的能量，再一次把我们聚集在一起，共同面对这样一个重要的挑战。我也想特别强调，看到来自不同大学的同学们来到这里，我感到非常欢迎，也非常高兴。你们选择参与这项倡议，本身就是迈出了重要的一步——这一步意味着投入、开放，以及直面复杂现实的意愿。你们的到来激励着我们，同时也体现出你们自身的动力、责任感，以及希望为积极改变作出贡献的真诚愿望。

青年在应对全球贫困问题中发挥着至关重要的作用。你们带来了活力、创造力和新的视角。但正如我们所知道的，贫困不仅仅是一个经济问题，它也影响健康、教育、尊严、机会以及整体福祉。因此，解决贫困问题对于促进可持续发展、减少国家和地区之间的不平等至关重要。

这项挑战同时也是一个非常宝贵的对话、合作与交流平台。它鼓励国际化和跨学科团队合作，也让大家有机会了解不同的经验和视角。它还在加强中国与拉丁美洲之间的合作，尽管我们相隔 12 个小时的时差，也隔着一片海洋。它促进彼此投入、相互理解和共同的方法，也帮助我们在应对全球挑战时找到彼此的共同点。

因此，你们在这个项目中建立起来的人际关系同样重要。你们展开的对话，以及建立起的联结，都可能影响你们未来的人生路径——我相信一定会如此。而你们在这里形成的想法，也完全有可能成为新的倡议、新的研究项目、公共政策以及在本地和全球层面影响社会的新方式的起点。

所以，同学们，你们的参与本身就在传递一个有力的信息：合作不仅是可能的，而且是必要的。你们正在向大家展示，这件事应该如何去做。你们已经是在以目标感和责任感共同合作的中拉青年领袖。对位于圣地亚哥的智利天主教大学来说，我们始终致力于培养具有全球视野的公民，也致力于支持年轻人在成长过程中形成应对全球挑战所需要的技能、价值观和领导力。我们相信对话、尊重与合作。我也想再次强调，对话、尊重与合作，是当你们和来自不同背景、不同大学、不同国家、不同文化的人在同一个团队中工作时，最重要的原则。

我相信你们会以创造力、投入和热情来面对这项挑战。我衷心祝愿大家取得成功。之后你们还会继续见到我们，我也希望你们很快就能有机会和来自智利、来自我们大学的同学们进行非常深入的交流——当然，我现在已经看到这里有很多来自不同大学的同学了，也很高兴看到大家在聊天区发来的信息，所以请继续在聊天区留言。最后，再次感谢大家今天来到这里。也特别感谢陈涛涛教授，她源源不断的能量一直在推动着我们，让我们能够连续第三年聚在这里，为我们的学生、也为我们两个地区的未来继续推动这个项目。非常感谢大家。

安娜 / Prof. Ana Celia Castro

里约热内卢联邦大学高级研究所所长；巴西国际关系中心（CEBRI）高级研究员；巴西高级研究论坛主席
Director, Institute for Advanced Studies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Senior Fellow, Brazilian Center of International Relations (CEBRI); President, Brazilian Forum for Advanced Studies

 

English (lightly edited transcript)

Good day, distinguished colleagues, dear students, honored guests, and friends,

It is a great pleasure — and, I would say, a profound responsibility — to open this Poverty Alleviation Competition in 2026.

We meet today around an issue that is not only urgent, but foundational.

Among all the Sustainable Development Goals, the number one – No Poverty - occupies a unique place. It is the first goal not merely by order, but by its importance. Because poverty is not simply one challenge among many. Poverty is the condition that intensifies and reproduces so many of the other vulnerabilities that mark our societies.

Focusing multidimensional vulnerabilities, poverty is better understood as a condition of compounded exposure — a condition that deepens risks, limits capabilities, and reduces the capacity of individuals, families, and territories to respond to shocks. Poverty aggravates social vulnerability. It restricts access to education, health, housing, food, and dignity. It amplifies climate vulnerability. It reinforces territorial vulnerability.

Whole communities become trapped in cycles of exclusion. And it perpetuates vulnerability between different generations. Children born into poverty inherit not only material deprivation, but reduced opportunities, fragile institutions, and futures of uncertainty.

This is precisely why this Competition is so important. Its significance goes far beyond the generation of isolated ideas or specific solutions proposed.

This is not only a competition about reducing poverty. It is a space for imagining solutions capable of transforming the broader architecture of vulnerability. To alleviate poverty is to strengthen resilience and to expand human freedom. And finally, to alleviate poverty is to create the conditions for more just, inclusive, and sustainable futures.

This is why the voices gathered here today matter so deeply. The ideas that emerge from this Competition may contribute not only to local solutions, but to a broader global movement committed to reducing multidimensional vulnerabilities and advancing human development.

Let us therefore see this moment not only as a competition, but as an invitation. An invitation to imagine futures where poverty is not destiny. Where vulnerability is not permanence. And where innovation is placed at the service of human dignity.

Thank you very much.

中文对应稿

各位尊敬的同仁、亲爱的同学们、各位贵宾、朋友们，大家好！

今天，我们怀着极大的荣幸——也可以说，怀着沉甸甸的责任——开启 2026 年的减贫竞赛。

我们今天相聚在此，探讨的是一项不仅紧迫，而且具有根本意义的议题。

在所有可持续发展目标中，第一个目标——消除贫困——占据着独一无二的地位。它不仅是按顺序排列的第一，更是因其重要性而居首。因为贫困并非众多挑战中的一项，而是加剧和复制了我们社会中诸多其他脆弱性的条件。

从多维度的脆弱性来看，贫困更应被视为一种复合暴露的状况——一种加深风险、限制能力、削弱个人、家庭和区域应对冲击能力的状况。贫困加剧了社会脆弱性。它限制了教育、医疗、住房、食物和尊严的获取。它放大了气候脆弱性。它强化了地域脆弱性。

整个社区陷入排斥的循环。而且，贫困还在不同代际之间延续着脆弱性。出身贫困的孩子不仅继承了物质匮乏，还继承了机会减少、脆弱的制度以及充满不确定性的未来。

正因如此，这场竞赛才如此重要。其意义远不止于产生孤立的想法或提出具体的解决方案。

这不仅仅是一场关于减贫的竞赛。它是一个构想能够改变更广泛脆弱性架构的解决方案的空间。减贫意味着增强韧性，意味着扩大人类自由。最终，减贫意味着为更公正、更包容、更可持续的未来创造条件。

这就是为什么今天聚集在此的声音如此重要。这场竞赛中涌现的想法不仅有助于提出本地解决方案，还有助于推动一场致力于减少多维度脆弱性、促进人类发展的更广泛的全球运动。

因此，让我们将此刻不仅视为一场竞赛，更视为一份邀请。一份邀请我们去构想一个贫困并非命运、脆弱并非永恒、创新服务于人类尊严的未来。非常感谢。

艾丽西亚·萨洛蒙 / Prof. Alicia Salomone

智利大学国际关系处处长
Director of International Relations, University of Chile

 

English (lightly edited transcript)

Thank you very much, Maribel, for the introduction. I am absolutely delighted to be here with all of you. First of all, I would like to send greetings, on behalf of the authorities of the University of Chile and on my own behalf, to the authorities of Tsinghua University, and especially to our champion, Professor Chen Taotao, head of the Tsinghua University Latin America Center, who has been working so closely with us and inspiring all of us with her energy, her insightful vision, and all the purpose involved in this very important project.

I would like to say hello also to the representatives of the partner universities, the sponsor companies, and especially to our students, who have been very committed to this initiative. As Professor Chen Taotao mentioned before, this is not just a project. This is a real project, trying to find real solutions to one of the most important challenges at the global level, which is Goal No. 1 for sustainable development: No Poverty.

Moreover, as pointed by my colleagues Maria Montt and Professor Ana Celia Castro, poverty is not just one goal; it is very much linked to other challenges, such as no hunger, gender equality, life on land and below water, quality education, and a culture of peace. For this reason, to successfully work on poverty alleviation, we need to think integrally, incorporating all the global challenges that also contribute to poverty alleviation. In this sense, I also welcome the idea posed by Professor Chen Taotao of shifting the perspective from poverty alleviation to development. It is indeed a very good addition.

At the University of Chile, we are very much engaged with this project as it reflects our institutional commitment to the 2030 Agenda, and to multilateral cooperation, including cooperation between Latin America and China. Last January, we had the pleasure of sending a group of our students to China. It was a magnificent experience for them, and we are still hearing about the impact of that it had in their lives. It is frankly very rewarding to see the real impact of this kind of initiative.

To conclude this words, I would like to emphasize the significant impact that the programme on poverty alleviation has had on the participating students, both for their academic development and for the breadth of their awareness of global challenges. Thus, I must say that there is great enthusiasm within the University of Chile for this new edition of programme. We are confident that it will continue to strengthen the professional and scientific capacities of our students, and it will also consolidate the links of friendship and cooperation that they have been developing throughout these years. We have great confidence and trust in our students and in the possibilities that this kind of project brings to our countries and to our young people.

中文对应稿

非常感谢Maribel的介绍。能与诸位相聚在此，我感到无比高兴。首先，我谨代表智利大学的校方以及我个人，向清华大学的校方致以问候，尤其要向我们的领军人物陈涛涛教授致以问候，她一直与我们紧密合作，以她的活力、敏锐的洞察力以及对这一重要项目的坚定信念激励着我们所有人。

我也要向合作大学的代表、赞助公司以及我们的学生问好，他们对这一倡议投入了极大的热情。正如陈涛涛教授之前所提到的，这不仅仅是一个项目。这是一个实实在在的项目，旨在为全球面临的最重要挑战之一——可持续发展目标中的第一项“消除贫困”——寻找切实可行的解决方案。

此外，正如我的同事玛丽亚·蒙特和安娜·塞莉亚·卡斯特罗教授所指出的，贫困不仅仅是一个目标；它与诸如零饥饿、性别平等、陆地和海洋生物多样性、优质教育以及和平文化等其他挑战密切相关。因此，要成功地开展减贫工作，我们需要全面思考，将所有有助于减贫的全球性挑战都纳入其中。从这个意义上说，我也非常赞同陈涛涛教授提出的从减贫视角转向发展视角的观点。这确实是一个很好的补充。

 

在智利大学，我们非常积极地参与这个项目，因为它反映了我们机构对 2030 年议程以及包括拉美和中国合作在内的多边合作的承诺。去年 1 月，我们有幸派遣了一批学生前往中国。这对他们来说是一次非常棒的经历，我们至今仍能听到这次经历对他们生活产生的影响。看到这类倡议能产生实实在在的影响，确实令人感到非常欣慰。总之，我想强调这个扶贫项目对参与学生在学业发展以及对全球挑战的认识广度方面所产生的重大影响。因此，我必须说智利大学对这个新一届项目的开展充满热情。我们坚信它将继续增强我们学生的专业和科研能力，也将巩固他们多年来建立的友谊与合作关系。我们对我们的学生充满信心和信任，也相信这种项目为我们的国家和年轻人带来的可能性。

辛西娅·桑伯恩 / Cynthia Sanborn

秘鲁太平洋大学中国与亚太研究中心主任
Director, Center for China and Asia-Pacific Studies, Universidad del Pacífico

 

English (lightly edited transcript)

Thank you, Maribel, and good morning to our friends in China, and good evening to our friends in Chile, Brazil, and Peru. It is really a pleasure to join you again for the China–Latin America Youth Responding to Global Challenges — 2026 Poverty Alleviation Challenge.

I am sending a warm greeting from our university president, Dr. Martha Chavez, and all of our authorities, who are very excited to be back again this year. I would like to begin by expressing our sincere appreciation to Tsinghua University, the organizing team, and Professor Chen Taotao. The word “energy” keeps being repeated for Professor Chen Taotao, but it is true. She motivates all of us and serves as an amazing role model and driving force for this initiative.

I would also like to thank the sponsors. We were extremely thankful to MMG Las Bambas and other companies that enabled our students to travel last year, and we thank them again for supporting this wonderful initiative. We are especially grateful and delighted to work with colleagues and exchange with students in Chile and Brazil, as well as in China, and I think that the network being formed here goes well beyond a once-a-year program. We really are making friends and learning from each other constantly.

At the Universidad del Pacífico, it is particularly meaningful for us to be involved in this initiative. We are pleased to continue supporting a space that fosters collaboration and innovation. Our students last year learned a tremendous amount. Many of the students who participated last year had never traveled outside Peru, certainly had never traveled to China, and certainly knew very little about a country that is our major trading partner and also a major investor in our country. Their participation made a big difference in their lives and in their development as future professionals.

Poverty remains one of the most complex and persistent challenges we all share, as has been said, and I completely agree with Professor Chen Taotao, Ana Celia, and Maria that it is not just poverty in the sense of income or deprivation of basic needs. There are really profound things that need to be changed in our society. And it is especially meaningful now, in a context of so much global violence, tension, competition, and hostility, that our young people are able to look beyond that and work together to think about how to address these challenges as future leaders of each of our countries.

I would encourage all of the students who are interested to participate actively, to work together across borders, to form teams not only in their own country but also with friends in other countries, and to participate with a great deal of apertura — openness to learning. And as Ana Celia very well said, this is not really about competition; it is about collaboration and learning from each other.

So again, we are very pleased to be part of this initiative. We look forward to seeing how it continues to grow this year, with new partners and new friends in each of the countries involved. Thank you again for having us.

中文对应稿

谢谢你，Maribel。也向中国的朋友们道一声早上好，向智利、巴西和秘鲁的朋友们道一声晚上好。能够再次和大家一起参加“中拉青年应对全球挑战——2026 减贫营”，我真的感到非常高兴。

我也转达我们校长 Martha Chavez 博士以及学校各位负责人的诚挚问候，他们都非常高兴今年能够再次参与进来。我想首先表达我们对清华大学、组织团队以及陈涛涛教授的衷心感谢。大家不断提到陈涛涛教授身上的“能量”，而这的确是真实的。她一直激励着我们所有人，也是这项倡议中非常出色的榜样和推动者。

我也想感谢各位赞助方。去年，MMG 拉斯邦巴斯以及其他企业的支持，使我们的学生得以前往交流，我们对此非常感激；今年我们也再次感谢他们继续支持这样一项精彩的倡议。我们也非常珍惜并高兴能够与智利、巴西以及中国的同事合作，与这些国家的学生交流。我认为，这里正在形成的网络，意义远远超出一个一年一次的项目。我们确实正在不断交朋友，也在不断彼此学习。

对秘鲁太平洋大学来说，能够参与到这项倡议中来，有着格外重要的意义。我们很高兴继续支持这样一个能够促进合作与创新的空间。去年我们的学生收获巨大。很多参与去年的同学此前从未离开过秘鲁，更不用说去中国了；他们对这个国家原本也几乎没有什么了解，而中国既是我们重要的贸易伙伴，也是我国的重要投资者。他们的参与，确实给他们的人生以及他们作为未来专业人士的发展带来了很大的改变。

正如前面已经提到的，贫困仍然是我们共同面对的最复杂、也最持久的挑战之一。我也完全赞同陈涛涛教授、Ana Celia 以及 Maria 的看法：贫困并不只是收入层面的贫困，也不只是基本需求被剥夺。我们的社会中确实还有很多更深层的问题需要改变。尤其是在当下这样一个充满全球性暴力、紧张、竞争与敌意的背景下，我们的年轻人仍然能够超越这些因素，彼此合作，共同思考如何作为各自国家未来的领导者去应对这些挑战，这一点尤其可贵。

我会鼓励所有有兴趣参与的同学都积极加入进来，跨越国界共同合作，不仅在本国组队，也和其他国家的朋友一起组队，并且以很大的 apertura——也就是一种对学习保持开放的态度——来参与其中。正如 Ana Celia 刚才讲得非常好，这件事真正重要的并不是竞争，而是合作，以及彼此学习。

所以，再次重申，我们非常高兴能够成为这项倡议的一部分。我们期待看到它在今年继续成长，吸引更多新的合作伙伴，也结识更多来自各参与国家的新朋友。再次感谢大家邀请我们参与。

3. 支持机构嘉宾发言 / Remarks from Supporting Organizations

方巍 / FANG Wei

智利 CGE 公司副 CEO
Deputy CEO of CGE Group

 

English (lightly edited transcript)

Okay, it is a great pleasure to be here again. I am very pleased to see so many friends once more. So, good morning and good evening, everyone, and also to my friends in China, Brazil, Peru, and Chile. I am Fang Wei from CGE Group in Chile. It is a great pleasure to speak at this important session.

As an energy company with broad international experience, CGE has been exploring how infrastructure and public services can support more inclusive and sustainable growth. Today, we gather here to explore how innovative solutions can help reduce poverty. This challenge remains significant, but I firmly believe that through this competition, we can bring together diverse perspectives and identify practical and actionable solutions.

In our own experience, whether expanding electricity access in remote areas or supporting the integration of renewable energy, we have learned that poverty is not only about income, but also about equal access to opportunity. This is exactly why coordination among companies, governments, and young people is so critical.

This competition offers a valuable platform for young people from different countries to share insights, exchange experience, and propose innovative and meaningful solutions. We are also encouraged to see more young people engage with such topics as energy transition, digital development, and social equity, and approach this challenge in cross-cutting ways. We believe that this fresh perspective will bring more ways to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

In the upcoming season, we are looking forward to your experimentation. Along the way, I hope your ideas will go beyond the proposal stage and eventually translate into real-world practice. At CGE Group, we are also looking forward to engaging with more young talent and working together toward a more inclusive and sustainable future. Let us work together to reduce poverty and build a better future. Thank you, and I wish great success to this edition.

中文对应稿

很高兴再次来到这里，我也非常高兴再次见到这么多朋友。向大家道一声早上好、晚上好，也向中国、巴西、秘鲁和智利的朋友们问好。我是来自智利 CGE Group 的方巍。能够在这样一个重要的场合发言，我感到非常荣幸。

作为一家具有广泛国际经验的能源企业，CGE 一直在探索基础设施和公共服务如何支持更加包容、更加可持续的增长。今天，我们聚集在这里，就是要一起探讨创新型解决方案如何帮助减少贫困。这一挑战仍然十分重大，但我坚定地相信，通过这项比赛，我们能够汇聚多元视角，找到切实可行、能够落地的解决方案。

从我们的实践经验来看，无论是在偏远地区扩大电力可及性，还是推动可再生能源的整合，我们都逐渐认识到，贫困不仅仅与收入有关，也与是否能够平等获得机会密切相关。这正是为什么企业、政府和年轻人之间的协同如此关键。

这项比赛为来自不同国家的年轻人提供了一个宝贵的平台，让大家能够分享观点、交流经验，并提出富有创新性和现实意义的方案。我们也很高兴看到越来越多的年轻人开始关注能源转型、数字发展、社会公平等议题，并以跨领域的方式来理解和应对这一挑战。我们相信，这种全新的视角将带来更多实现可持续发展目标的方法。

在接下来这一届活动中，我们期待看到大家的各种尝试。我也希望，在这个过程中，你们的想法能够不只是停留在 proposal 阶段，而是最终转化为现实世界中的实践。对 CGE Group 来说，我们同样期待与更多优秀的年轻人才建立联系，一起迈向一个更加包容、更加可持续的未来。让我们共同努力，减少贫困，建设一个更美好的未来。谢谢大家，也祝愿本届活动圆满成功。

奥斯卡·加杰罗 / Oscar Gaggero

秘鲁拉斯邦巴斯公司国内公共事务总监
Superintendent, Domestic Corporate Affairs, Minera Las Bambas S.A.

 

English (lightly edited transcript)

Thank you. Good evening, everyone — distinguished organizers from Tsinghua University, dear participants and colleagues. It is a great honor for me to represent Las Bambas and participate in this important initiative, the China–Latin America Youth Responding to Global Challenges — Poverty Alleviation Challenge.

On behalf of Las Bambas, I would like to express our sincere appreciation to Tsinghua University for creating this valuable platform, which brings together young leaders from different countries to exchange ideas and explore innovative solutions for sustainable development.

Las Bambas is one of the largest copper mines in Peru and a key contributor to regional and national development. However, beyond our operational role, we believe that responsible mining must create shared value for local communities. For us, poverty reduction is not only a social commitment, but also an essential component of sustainable development.

At Las Bambas, we promote this vision through our community development approach, known as Corazón de Las Bambas. This model focuses on strengthening local capacities, promoting economic diversification, improving access to education and healthcare, and fostering long-term partnerships with communities and local authorities. Through this integrated approach, we aim to support inclusive growth and improve quality of life in our areas of influence.

We have implemented various initiatives aligned with these objectives. These include supporting local agricultural development, strengthening small businesses, promoting education programs for youth, and investing in infrastructure that benefits rural communities. We also work closely with stakeholders to ensure that development initiatives respond to real community needs and contribute to sustainable livelihoods.

We strongly believe that young people play a crucial role in addressing global challenges such as poverty, inequality, and climate change. Your ideas, innovation, and cross-cultural collaboration are essential to building more inclusive and resilient societies. Programs like this one help bridge knowledge and experience between regions and inspire practical solutions that can be implemented on the ground.

Las Bambas is proud to support this initiative and to contribute to strengthening cooperation between China and Latin America. We look forward to continuing to work together with academic institutions, governments, communities, and young leaders to promote sustainable development and shared prosperity. Thank you very much, and I wish you all a successful and inspiring program.

中文对应稿

谢谢大家。各位晚上好——清华大学的各位主办方代表、各位参赛者以及各位同仁。今天我能够代表拉斯邦巴斯 参与这项重要倡议，也就是“中拉青年应对全球挑战——减贫营”，我感到非常荣幸。

我谨代表拉斯邦巴斯，向清华大学表示诚挚感谢，感谢你们搭建了这样一个宝贵的平台，把来自不同国家的青年领袖汇聚在一起，共同交流观点，探索可持续发展的创新解决方案。

拉斯邦巴斯是秘鲁规模最大的铜矿之一，也是区域和国家发展中的重要贡献者。但除了我们的生产经营角色之外，我们始终相信，负责任的采矿必须为当地社区创造共享价值。对我们而言，减贫不仅是一项社会责任，也是可持续发展的核心组成部分。

在 拉斯邦巴斯，我们通过名为“邦巴斯之心”的社区发展路径来推动这一理念。这个模式聚焦于提升地方能力、促进经济多元化、改善教育和医疗可及性，并与社区及地方政府建立长期合作关系。通过这种综合性方式，我们希望支持包容性增长，并提升我们影响区域内居民的生活质量。

围绕这些目标，我们已经实施了多项具体举措，包括支持当地农业发展、扶持小微企业、推进面向青年的教育项目，以及投资建设惠及农村社区的基础设施。我们也与各利益相关方保持密切合作，确保这些发展举措真正回应社区的实际需求，并能够促进可持续生计。

我们坚信，年轻人在应对贫困、不平等和气候变化等全球性挑战中扮演着至关重要的角色。你们的想法、创新能力以及跨文化合作，对于建设更加包容、更具韧性的社会来说都不可或缺。像这样的项目，有助于搭建地区之间知识与经验的桥梁，也能激发出真正可以落地实施的实践性方案。

拉斯邦巴斯很自豪能够支持这项倡议，也很高兴为进一步加强中国与拉丁美洲之间的合作作出贡献。我们期待继续与学术机构、政府、社区以及青年领袖携手合作，共同推动可持续发展与共享繁荣。非常感谢大家，也祝愿各位度过一段成功而富有启发性的项目旅程。