On May 20, 2025, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the 2025 SCO Forum on Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development.

Xi Jinping pointed out that eliminating poverty is a global challenge and also a common goal for all countries in the world. Through arduous efforts, China successfully won the battle against poverty, achieving the poverty reduction target of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ten years ahead of schedule. China has blazed a poverty reduction path with Chinese characteristics, and written a new chapter in the history of mankind's fight against poverty.

Xi Jinping stressed that the root cause of poverty is inadequate development. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has actively carried out cooperation on poverty reduction and sustainable development in recent years, achieving remarkable results. As the rotating president of the SCO, China is ready to continuously enhance policy communication with all parties, share poverty reduction experience, deepen practical cooperation, help more countries explore poverty reduction and sustainable development paths that suit their national conditions, and join hands to build a beautiful world free from poverty and with common prosperity.

The forum opened in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province on Tuesday under the theme of "Sustained Poverty Reduction and Cooperative Development: Advancing Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development among SCO Countries". The forum was co-hosted by the Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation Commission of the SCO and the People's Government of Shaanxi Province.