Partners in Population and Development, an organization of developing countries for South-South cooperation in population that is working with China’s Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC), held a conference, March 2-3, in the city of Taicang, Jiangsu province to draft a strategic plan for the 2015-2019 period.

China both supports and benefits from cooperation with Partners in Population and Development and will popularize reproductive health and family planning and gender equality over the next five years and will cooperate more with the organization’s member countries, according to the head of NHFPC’s International Cooperation Dept.

Partners in Population and Development, which was set up in 1994 in Cairo, capital of Egypt, became a UN permanent observer in 2002 and now has 26 member countries, accounting for 59 percent of the globe’s population. Li Bin, the NHFPC’s minister, became the president of its executive committee in December 2014.