Item 4: Positive Examples, Good Practices and Approaches, and Space or More Distinguished Chairman, I am Liu Yang from the China Ethnic Minorities’ Association for External Exchanges. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals advocate for “eradicating all forms of poverty worldwide” and “ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all”. In China, we adhere to the concept of “prioritizing education in poverty alleviation” with a special emphasis on the educational development of ethnic minorities. Now, I will share with you some practices for supporting the education of ethnic minorities in China. In order to ensure that all citizens have equal opportunities for education, the Compulsory Education Law of the People’s Republic of China stipulates that all school-age children and adolescents of the People’s Republic of China shall, in accordance with law, enjoy the equal right to receive compulsory education, regardless of sex, ethnicity, race, family financial conditions, religious belief, and more. To improve the relatively underdeveloped education in ethnic areas, China has organized large numbers of excellent teachers from economically developed eastern provinces to provide pairing assistance for these ethnic areas. In 2018, the Implementation Plan for Poverty Alleviation Through Education in Severely Impoverished

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