On December 22, under the guidance of the Ministry of Finance, the Forum on "China's Financial Support for Poverty Reduction and the Promotion of Inclusive Financial Experience Sharing" sponsored by the Beijing National Accounting Institute was held online and offline. More than 100 experts, scholars and relevant personages from the financial and economic departments and financial institutions of China, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam participated in the forum online to jointly discuss the successful experience and theoretical exploration in financial poverty reduction and rural revitalization, and to share the outstanding achievements of inclusive financial services in poverty reduction and rural development.

In her opening speech, Zhang Fengling, Secretary of the Party Committee of BNAI, pointed out that China was one of the first countries to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of poverty reduction, and our achievements in poverty reduction had won high recognition from the international community. This forum aims to share and exchange the experience and practice of government finance at all levels in policy guidance, support direction, fund supervision, inclusive finance and budget management in the process of poverty reduction in China, and provide useful reference for the practice of poverty reduction in the Lancang-Mekong countries. She stressed that the BNAI has long been committed to the training and education of international high-end financial talents and the research of think tanks in the field of finance and economics，and is an important platform for foreign financial exchange and cooperation, which has done a lot of policy research and case analysis on financial support for poverty reduction and inclusive finance. In the end of the speech, Secretary Zhang promised that BNAI is willing to exchange and discuss with experts from the financial and economic departments of the Lancang-Mekong countries and all sectors of society to promote the development of poverty reduction in the Lancang-Mekong countries.

In the later stage, BNAI will continue to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with the five Lancang-Mekong countries through the integration of the brilliant viewpoints from the forum into a research report, the core parts of which will be translated into foreign languages and shared with relevant countries, so as to do a good job in furthering experience promotion and exchange and give full play to the benefits of Asian cooperation fund projects.