Chinese Minister of Poverty Alleviation and Development meets Professor Yunus

Microfinance Focus, Aug 25, 2010: Chinese Minister of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, Mr. Fan Xiaojian recently met Nobel Laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus in Dhaka along with a 10 member delegation on behalf of Poverty Reduction Centre in China (IPRCC).  Minister Fan is in charge of a US $20 billion budget directed towards poverty alleviation in China. 

Professor Muhammad Yunus and Mr. Fan Xiaojian with Grameen Bank's Borrowers (Photo Courtesy Yunus Centre)

The delegation visited Grameen Bank’s Joymondop Singair branch to learn more on the practical sides and its implementation process. Professor Yunus accompanied the delegation to the field. Later the delegation had discussions with Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and exchanged views on poverty reduction and social businesses for development. 

The delegation also included Ms. Wang Ping, Founder and Chairperson of YouChange and Mr. Wu Zhong, Director General of IPRCC, China. 

Grameen Bank’s founder Muhammad Yunus’s vision is the total eradication of poverty from the world. ‘Grameen’, he claims, ‘is a message of hope, a programme for putting homelessness and destitution in a museum so that one day our children will visit it and ask how we could have allowed such a terrible thing to go on for so long’.

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