IMNU opens poverty alleviation institute

(chinadaily.com.cn)

Updated: 2017-03-17

IMNU holds an opening ceremony for the poverty alleviation and development institute on March 16. [Photo/ imnu.edu.cn]

Inner Mongolia Normal University (IMNU) signed an agreement with the autonomous region's poverty alleviation office on March 16, establishing a poverty alleviation and development institute within the university.

The institute will build partnerships with both domestic and foreign research groups to contribute to the economic and talent cultivation of the region.

A less developed area of China's northern frontier, Inner Mongolia is a key battleground for China's current war on poverty, currently home to 803,000 impoverished residents as of the end of 2015.

"The institute will improve the efficiency of targeted poverty alleviation in the autonomous region, and promote the school's capacity for coordinated research innovation," said Hai Shan, director of IMNU's sustainable development research center of pasturing and rural areas. “We also aim to become a high- end think tank for China’s poverty alleviation cause.”

Yun Guohong, president of IMNU, expressed his best wishes to the institute at the opening ceremony saying, "I hope the institute will follow IMNU's guidelines of being perseverant, precise and pragmatic to fulfill its duty of regional and national economic construction under the guidance of the expert panel."