I want to wish everyone in China a very healthy and productive Year of the Rabbit.
我祝愿每一位中国朋友兔年健康,收获满满!
Building a world where everyone has a chance to live a healthy and productive life has been the vision since we began the Foundation. We are very grateful to our Chinese partners who played a key role in accelerating the progress of our shared goals, not just in China but in the entire world.
Our Foundation has been partnering with China for over 15 years, and we are proud of the work we've done togenter. For example, safe and effective Chinese-made vaccines for Japanese enncephalitis, polio and HPV are saving lives in China and around the world.
The Global Health Drug Discovery Institute (GHDDI) launched by our Foundation in partnership with Beijing government and Tsinghua University has achieved breakthroughs in broad candidate discovery for malaria, tuberculosis and COVID-19.
We're also working with the Chinese Academy of Agriculturual Sciences and help countries in Africa ease the food crisis and adapt to climate change with new, higher yield, low maintenance and nutritious varieties of rice. In Nigeria and Mali this new variety produced as much as 50 percent more rice than the previous one.
New Chinese sanitation technologies that safely treat human waste without relying on sewage and water systems are being piloted in China and several African countries.
Despite all the challenges the world is facing, I am optimistic about the future because of progress like this. I look forward to continuing to work with our Chinese partners to change the world for the better.