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Invest in rural transformation by closing gaps of nutrition and resilience. Enhance global humanitarian by channeling resources from both public and private sectors.
Development through innovation-driven sustainable growth
China and WFP continue to expand their partnership for global hunger solutions, supporting the achievement of SDG 2 and SDG 17. WFP supports China’s efforts to ensure food security and nutrition for the people of China through its CSP, including improving the nutritional status and livelihoods of rural China's left-behind groups. WFP mobilizes resources within China to enhance collaboration with the government and private sector in order to bolster support to global humanitarian and development initiatives.
WFP supports China’s realization of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. WFP has provided robust support in the areas of rural revitalization, sustainable agricultural practices, and the reduction of the urban-rural differential. The United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF) for China 2021-2025 and the WFP China Country Strategic Plan (2022-2025) (CSP) are aligned with national planning frameworks, including the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development (2021-2025). WFP’s CSP has a particular focus on food security, innovation in modernization, and the sustainability and resilience of the agricultural sector.
WFP’s domestic activities seek to enhance the food security and nutritional status of vulnerable populations, build resilience, and contribute to rural revitalization efforts.
In recent years, there have been great strides in addressing child wasting and stunting among young children under five years old. Nonetheless, urban-rural gap and regional disparities still exist. As well, China’s population is facing the challenge of the coexistence of overweight/obesity and micronutrient deficiency, with prominent disparities between urban and rural areas as well as genders. Due to factors such as remoteness, dietary habits, food supply conditions, and nutritional knowledge, the health status of children in underdeveloped rural areas is far lower than the same level in urban areas. To respond to this evolving demand, WFP has implemented a series of pilot demonstration projects on school feeding, nutrition improvement and smallholder support in remote areas. WFP is engaged in efforts on dietary improvement, to promote healthy lifestyle and increase consumption of nutritious diet including milk and soybean and less oil upon evidence-based dietary guidance, and the establishment of a balanced food system within Chinese society.
With more than 200 million smallholder farmers, WFP makes strategic investments in rural areas. WFP pilots assist communities in the most remote locations as Hunan, Sichuan and Gansu provinces and Guangxi Autonomous Region, which are characterized by less developed infrastructure and limited access to financial services, markets, and value chains. The objective of these pilots is to enable smallholder farmers, to gain access to decent employment, increase their productivity and incomes, and ensure vulnerable population to capitalize on national efficiency gains for the resilience and sustainability of rural transformation. These efforts have included a special consideration for the inclusion of individuals with disabilities in the conceptual framework, pioneering approaches to smallholder market support and local meal provision.