CHINA is prepared to share its experience of eliminating poverty with members of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO), President Xi Jinping said today.

“As the SCO rotating chair, China is willing to strengthen strategic contacts with each side, share experience in tackling poverty and deepen practical co-operation,” the Xinhua news agency reported the Chinese leader as saying in a message to participants at the SCO Forum on Poverty Reduction and Sustainable Development as it opened in Xi’an, the administrative centre of Shaanxi province in north-west China.