From November 25 to 27, the 25^th Annual Meeting of China South-South Cooperation Network was held in Chongqing. Zhang Yi, deputy director of China Center for International Economic and Technology Exchange, Qu Sixi, representative of the United Nations World Food Program in China, and Chen Shili, director of Chongqing International Culture Exchange Center, attended the opening ceremony of the annual meeting and delivered speeches. Representatives from more than 30 network member attended the annual meeting. Jing Xiaojun, chief of the Dept. of International Cooperation and Education of FFRC attended the meeting.

With the theme of "South-South Cooperation and International Development Cooperation in the Post-epidemic Era", the annual meeting comprehensively summarized the achievements and experience in South-South cooperation of China South-South Cooperation Network in the past year, analyzed the problems faced by South-South cooperation, and discussed new directions for South-South cooperation. During the meeting, the “Standardized Rice-Fish Farming Technology Demonstration Project in Myanmar” implemented by FFRC was exhibited as an “excellent case of South-South cooperation and trilateral cooperation for sustainable development". Under the framework of South-South cooperation, the project has successively established two rice-fishfarming technology demonstration sites, carried out technical training, technical guidance and demonstrations, effectively improved the management concept and technical level of Myanmar’s rice-fish practitioners, and greatly improved the enthusiasm of surrounding rice farmers to try aquaculture, which has laid a foundation for further promoting the development of Myanmar’s rice-fish industry, and has made positive contributions to several UN sustainable development goals such as poverty eradication, hunger eradication, and economic growth.