陈涛涛教授 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
清华场致辞 Speech at Tsinghua Session
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.
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、秘鲁使馆，以及巴西、智利、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。
巴西场致辞 Speech at Brazil Session
Thank you, Paula. Professor Ana Celia Castro, Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Ms. Chen Mo, Education Counselor at the Chinese Embassy in Brazil; Professor Ligia Maura Costa, Director of the Center for Ethics, Transparency, Integrity and Compliance Studies at FGV EAESP; Prof. Osvaldo Guzman, Deputy Director of the International Affairs Office of the University of Chile; Professor Cynthia Sanborn, Director of the Center for China and Asia-Pacific Studies at Universidad del Pacífico, Peru; all the students and faculty members from Brazil; and my PhD team and colleagues from Tsinghua University—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. I would like to mention that the year before last, this program was included in the list of outcomes of President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Brazil.
Also, last year the program attracted more than 300 students. Thanks, Ms. Chen—you have already mentioned this, but I still want to emphasize this great number. The Challenge brought together more than 300 students from 27 universities across China, Brazil, Chile, and Peru. Around 100 teams registered, among which 39 were transnational teams. In the end, 12 teams won the competition and received awards. Because of that, 24 Tsinghua students and faculty members traveled to Brazil and Chile to participate in the final round of the competition last August. Then, 36 students and faculty members from Latin American countries came to China this January for a study visit.
Our student projects covered a very broad spectrum of poverty-related issues, including agriculture, mining, education, healthcare, energy, and so on. Many projects in particular tried to apply AI-enabled solutions, which was wonderful.
For these great achievements, I would like to take this chance to express my sincere thanks to all my dear university - partners in Brazil, Chile and Peru; to all the supporting Embassies, especially for Chinese Embassy in Brazil; The Consulate General of China in Rio de Janeiro, and Brazilian Embassy in China. My sincere thanks also go to all the generous sponsoring companies; to all the professionals and institutions who provided mentorship to our student teams and to every friend who helped us last year!
This year, as all of you have probably noticed, is the Culture Year for Brazil and China. I am very happy about, and deeply appreciate, the strong support from the Chinese Embassy in Brazil, which has joined forces with us as one of the key organizers. Thank you, Counselor Chen Mo.
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 expand our focus from poverty alleviation to poverty alleviation and development. From China’s experience, even though we ended extreme poverty back in 2021, we still keep working on development, 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 would like to remind our students that we are doing a real project here. I highly encourage you to use your own eyes to observe real poverty phenomena 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 the teams that choose those topics. In addition, we are also trying to invite institutions with best practices from different countries to raise topics for you. In this way, if their topics are selected by our student teams, that will help best practices be learned and transferred to other countries more easily. So please pay attention to those suggested topics.
Last but not least, a truly great cross-border project really requires more time, more energy, and more effort. So if you are not an award winner this year, please do not be disappointed. We will encourage you to rejoin the program next year. The same goes for student teams that did win the competition last year: we definitely encourage you to rejoin the Challenge this year. We have set a specific rule for this; I will not go into details here, but later you will learn about it. So, if you believe your project is promising, just keep working on it. Our Challenge platform will always, always support you.
So, all my young friends here, you are very welcome to this year’s Challenge Program. I look forward to seeing you during the course. Thanks, everyone for listening.
谢谢你，Paula。Ana Celia Castro 教授 —— 里约热内卢联邦大学高级研究所所长；陈默女士 —— 中国驻巴西大使馆教育参赞；Ligia Maura Costa 教授 ——FGV EAESP 伦理、透明度、诚信与合规研究中心主任；Osvaldo Guzman 教授 —— 智利大学国际事务办公室副主任；Cynthia Sanborn 教授 —— 秘鲁太平洋大学中国与亚太研究中心主任；来自巴西的各位老师和同学；以及清华大学的博士生团队和同事们，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。我想特别提到的是，前年的时候，这个项目被纳入了习近平主席访问巴西成果清单。
此外，去年该项目吸引了 300 多名学生参与。谢谢陈参赞，您刚才已经提到这个数字了，但我还是想再次强调一下这个很了不起的数字。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，其中 39 支是跨国队伍。最终有 12 支队伍获奖。也正因为如此，去年 8 月，24 名清华师生前往巴西和智利参加了比赛决赛。今年 1 月，又有 36 名来自拉美国家的师生来到中国参加访学活动。
我们的学生项目覆盖了非常广泛的减贫议题，包括农业、采矿、教育、医疗、能源等等。尤其是许多项目尝试应用 AI 赋能的解决方案，这非常令人欣喜。
借此机会，我想向巴西、智利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领馆，特别是中国驻巴西大使馆、中国驻里约热内卢总领馆以及巴西驻华大使馆，表示衷心感谢。与此同时，我也要向所有慷慨支持本项目的赞助企业、为学生团队提供指导的各位专业人士和相关机构，以及去年所有给予我们帮助的朋友们，致以诚挚谢意！
今年，我想大家都已经注意到了，这是巴西和中国的 “文化年”。我非常高兴，也非常感谢中国驻巴西大使馆给予我们的强力支持，它已经作为关键主办方之一与我们并肩合作。谢谢陈默参赞。
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” 拓展为 “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，但我们仍然持续推进发展工作，努力防止人们重新返贫。因此，把重心放在 “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。我非常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：我们会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，我们也在尝试邀请来自不同国家、拥有最佳实践的机构来为大家提出选题。这样一来，如果这些选题被我们的学生团队选中，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确实需要更多时间、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，对于去年获奖的学生团队，我们也非常鼓励你们今年再次参加减贫营。我们已经为此设置了专门规则，我这里不展开说，之后你们会了解到。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、一直支持你们。
所以，在座所有年轻的朋友们，非常欢迎你们参加今年的减贫营。我期待在课程期间见到大家。谢谢大家的聆听。
