By A Staff Reporter
Kathmandu, June 4: Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Youth Technology and Innovation Forum concluded in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province by adopting the Shenzhen Initiative on Thursday.
“The Forum agrees that since its inception, the SCO has always upheld the Shanghai Spirit, committed itself to the cause of world peace and development and human progress, carried out important theoretical and practical explorations for building a new type of international relations and a community with a shared future,” said a press statement issued by SCO Youth Technologyy and Innovation Forum.
The Forum created a new cooperation model featuring solidarity, inclusiveness and mutual learning for countries with different social systems and development paths.
The Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation Commission of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (GNFCC SCO), the All-China Youth Federation, and the Guangdong Provincial People’s Government jointly organised the Forum.
Under the theme of “Youth Building Dreams of Technology, Innovation Leading the Future”, observers, leaders and dialogue partners from SCO member states and young scientists, young entrepreneurs, and representatives of youth organizations conducted in-depth exchanges on such topics as youth innovation cooperation, health, digital economy development, artificial intelligence, green development, poverty reduction cooperation and rural development.
The Forum holds that profound changes unseen in a century are picking up pace, and the COVID-19 pandemic has had a wide-ranging and far-reaching impact, which brought about severe challenges to the world economic recovery.
“On the road of solidarity and cooperation, commitment to common security, openness and inclusiveness, drawing on each other’s strengths, and fairness and justice, the SCO member states have jointly explored ways and means to solve major global issues, responded to the challenge of the times and promoted the lofty cause of human peace and development,” it reads.
