China’s economic growth helped reach UN development goals

World Today

Global leaders at the United Nations in New York are due to adopt the latest drive to help end poverty.

The new set of international targets will mark the end of the Millennium Development Goals, which have helped improve the lives of some of the world’s poorest.

As the U.N. prepares for this next step forward, it’s recognizing China’s achievements in reaching not just its own goals, but helping others with theirs.

CCTV’s Nick Harper filed this report from the U.N. in New York.