Xi said Deng Xiaoping in his speech at the UN General Assembly in 1974 pointed out that Beijing was a developing nation and belonged to the third world.

He said, despite China scoring tremendous development in the past 40-odd years, it’s still a developing country and attaches importance to South-South cooperation. China wishes to promote South-South cooperation for higher-level development.

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