Luxman Siriwardena

Former executive director of the Pathfinder Foundation, a Sri Lankan think tank

China's achievement in the elimination of absolute poverty from all counties is a great success under any global standard. This achievement is also "an indication of the effectiveness of the Chinese path to development or socialism with Chinese characteristics. All developing countries and even developed market economies which have clusters of absolute poverty should learn from the Chinese development experience, especially that in poverty alleviation.