China has always stood with the Global South：spokesperson

（ECNS）-- Over the past two decades, countries of the Global South have contributed as high as 80 percent to global economic growth, and the collective rise of the Global South is a distinctive feature of the great transformation across the world, said Lou Qinjian, spokesperson for the third session of the 14th NPC, at a press conference on Tuesday held in Beijing ahead of the opening of its annual session.

“As a developing country and a member of the Global South, China has always stood with the Global South. China will always be a participant and advocate of South-South cooperation,” he added.