Quotable quotes from the 2023 Boao Forum

Jim Yong Kim, former president of the World Bank Group

China has developed so fast in a short period of time that the world wants to learn from its experience.

Everywhere I went, people would ask what happened in China. They lifted their people out of poverty. China did it in eight hundred million people, lifted out of poverty in a period of about 30 years. How did they do that? We want the same experience.