Because most developing countries in the world are located in the southern hemisphere and the southern part of the northern hemisphere. So from the1960s, in order to get rid of the control of developed countries and develop national economy, these countries began to carry out special economic cooperation, which is called South-South cooperation. For example, cooperation between China and Latin America (that is, cooperation between developing countries).
South-South cooperation is mutual cooperation among developing countries based on their historical experience and post-independence tasks. 1955 The Bandung Conference defined the principle of "consultation" in South-South cooperation, promoted the establishment of organizations of raw material producers and exporters, and proposed capital and technical cooperation among developing countries, so it was regarded as the beginning of South-South cooperation. The Non-Aligned Movement and the Group of 77, founded in the early 1960s, are the two largest international organizations in South-South cooperation. A series of programmatic documents they adopted stipulated the fields, contents, methods and guiding principles of South-South cooperation. From the 1970s to the end of 1980s, developing countries made great progress in unity, self-help and self-improvement through cooperation. Regional economic organizations, such as the West African Economic Community, the Latin American Economic System, the Southern African Development Association, the Gulf Cooperation Council and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, have been established one after another to seek economic cooperation and enhance collective self-reliance. The first South-South cooperation conference was held in New Delhi, India in 1982, and the South-South cooperation conferences were held in Beijing and Kuala Lumpur in 1983 and 1989 respectively. These three meetings are important milestones in South-South cooperation. The essence of South-South cooperation is to strengthen itself through unity and develop together under the unequal economic relations between North and South.
United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation:
In resolution 58/220 adopted by the United Nations on 23 February 2003, the General Assembly decided to designate 65,438+65,438+09 February as South-South Cooperation Day every year to raise people's awareness of the importance of South-South cooperation. The General Assembly urged all relevant United Nations organizations and multilateral institutions to intensify their efforts to effectively mainstream the use of South-South cooperation in the design, formulation and implementation of their regular programmes, and to consider allocating more human, technical and financial resources to support South-South cooperation initiatives. In 2004, the international community commemorated South-South Cooperation Day for the first time, with the theme of achieving the Millennium Development Goals through South-South cooperation.
South-South cooperation refers to a new type of economic cooperation based on equality and mutual benefit established and developed by most developing countries in the southern hemisphere in the struggle to establish a new international economic order. Including bilateral cooperation, regional cooperation and global cooperation.
North-South dialogue refers to the negotiation dialogue or multilateral consultation activities on economic relations between developing countries and developed countries. Because most developing countries are located in the southern hemisphere and developed countries are located in the northern hemisphere, developing countries are usually called "South" and developed countries are called "North", so negotiations on their economic relations are called North-South dialogue.
South-South cooperation, that is, economic and technological cooperation among developing countries (called "South-South cooperation" because most developing countries are located in the southern hemisphere or the northern hemisphere), is an indispensable and important part of international multilateral cooperation to promote development, an important channel for developing countries to strive for self-reliance and progress, and an effective means to ensure their effective integration and participation in the world economy.
The United Nations system has always attached importance to, supported and guided South-South cooperation activities, and the United Nations Development Programme has played a leading role in technical and economic cooperation among developing countries.
South-South cooperation aims at promoting the ability of developing countries to spread knowledge or experience in all fields of human activities and share them with each other. The main contents include promoting technical and economic cooperation among developing countries, and striving to strengthen exchanges and cooperation in infrastructure construction, energy and environment, small and medium-sized enterprise development, human resource development, health education and other industrial fields. Since the adoption of 1978 Buenos Aires Plan of Action, with the support and guidance of the United Nations and the active participation and promotion of member States, South-South cooperation has flourished and achieved great results.
South-South cooperation refers to economic cooperation among developing countries.
Because most developing countries are in the southern half of the earth, it is called "South-South cooperation". Developing countries support each other in the economic field and learn from each other's strengths. In international economic affairs, we should unite and cooperate, coordinate our positions, reduce and get rid of economic dependence on western developed countries, and independently develop the national economy. This is a new type of international relations based on mutual respect for sovereignty, equality and mutual benefit.