The 2026 Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum was held recently in Beijing. Under the theme "Uniting Global Efforts to Advance Poverty Reduction," the forum brought together around 350 representatives from agriculture and poverty-reduction authorities of various countries, foreign embassies in China, international organizations, enterprises, think tanks and other institutions to discuss global poverty reduction and development.

At a parallel forum, Guangdong shared its practices and reflections on East-West cooperation. Guangxi is endowed with rich agricultural resources, including a number of national geographical indication agricultural products such as Baise mangoes and Rong'an kumquats. Its annual vegetable output exceeds 30 million tonnes, while its fruit output tops 20 million tonnes. However, due to its remote location, high logistics costs, inadequate standardization and limited brand influence, local agricultural products have long faced the dilemma of higher output without higher income and difficulty commanding fair prices despite their quality.

The Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area is one of China's largest consumer markets. Building on the complementary strengths of Guangdong and Guangxi, the Guangdong-Guangxi cooperation work team has worked to transform consumption-driven assistance from short-term sales promotion into the long-term development of an ecosystem. It has created a closed-loop approach covering quality control, brand building, channel expansion, industrial extension and institutional support, helping specialty agricultural products move out of the mountains and into the Greater Bay Area.

At the same time, Guangdong-Guangxi cooperation has promoted the extension of agriculture from a single sales stage to the full chain of production, processing, sales, and cultural tourism, thereby increasing the overall added value and comprehensive benefits of the industry. Today, projects built with collaboration funds, including a mango puree production line and an automated sacha inchi processing line, have achieved annual processing capacities of more than 100,000 tonnes of mangoes and 720 tonnes of sacha inchi. These facilities turn undersized and off-grade fruit into high-value-added products such as ice pops and frozen fruit chunks. In 2025, exports of processed mango products from Tiandong County, Guangxi, exceeded 4,000 tonnes, with output value reaching 50 million yuan.

Industrial collaboration lies at the heart of these assistance efforts. Drawing on the resource endowments of Guangxi and Guizhou, Guangdong has helped build a number of enduring, locally rooted industrial clusters. To date, under the country's mechanisms for collaboration between the eastern and western regions, 225 industrial parks have been jointly built, 220.1 billion yuan in actual paid-in corporate investment has been facilitated, and 21 distinctive industrial clusters have been developed in line with local conditions. These efforts have helped Guangxi and Guizhou cultivate 15 nationally leading specialty industries, including mangoes and thorn pears.

广东市场+广西资源=农特产品“出山入湾”！

2026减贫与发展高层论坛日前在北京举行。论坛以“携手全球力量，共推减贫进程”为主题，来自各国农业及减贫相关部门、驻华使馆、国际组织、企业、智库等机构的约350名代表相聚一堂，共商全球减贫与发展大计。

在一场分论坛上，广东分享了东西部协作的实践与思考。广西农业资源禀赋突出，拥有百色芒果、融安金桔等多个国家地理标志农产品，常年蔬菜产量超过3000万吨，水果产量超过2000万吨。然而，由于地处偏远、物流成本高、标准化不足、品牌影响力弱，当地农产品长期面临“增产不增收”“好货难卖好价”的困境。

粤港澳大湾区是全国最大的消费市场之一。粤桂协作工作队立足两地资源互补优势，推动消费帮扶从“短期带货”向“长期建生态”转型，围绕品质管控、品牌塑造、渠道拓展、产业延伸与机制保障形成闭环，推动农特产品“出山入湾”。

同时，粤桂协作推动农业从单一销售环节向“生产—加工—销售—文旅”全链条延伸，提升产业整体附加值与综合效益。如今，投入协作资金建设的芒果原浆生产线、星油藤自动化加工线等项目，已实现年加工芒果超10万吨、星油藤720吨，将小果、次果加工成冰棒、冻果块等高附加值产品。2025年，广西田东县芒果加工产品出口量突破4000吨，产值达5000万元。

产业协作是协作帮扶的核心，广东立足桂黔资源禀赋，打造了一批“带不走的产业集群”。截至目前，广东东西部协作已累计共建产业园区225个，引导企业实际到位投资2201亿元，因地制宜打造特色产业集群21个，助力桂黔分别培育芒果、刺梨等15个全国第一产业。

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