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China can play a rebalancing role in the current global financial crisis to combat future global poverty, a senior United Nations official said on Monday.

Helen Clark, the United Nations Development Program administrator, said one of the greatest challenges to eliminating poverty is to avert a global recession.

"China's domestic demand needs to go up to rely less on exporting. In the rebalancing, China has to import more," she said.

Clark also said China's successful experience in development and lifting people out of poverty could be shared with other less developed countries.

As China strives to achieve even more human development outcomes through its renewed emphasis on the quality of growth, it will also be setting an example for the world, Clark said.

Many countries with rich resources fail in exploration, with little money going back to the local economy. In this respect, developing and developed countries should work together to achieve the goal of human development.

The UNDP is working closely with China to share practices on poverty reduction and experiences of expanding opportunities and reducing inequality. It will work with the Chinese government to promote social inclusion for migrant workers and their families, and to enhance women's inclusion in the labor market.

Clark said that while enormous progress has been made globally, particularly in East Asia, nearly a quarter of the world is missing out on the benefits and that 1.44 billion people are still living on less than $1.25 a day.

Questions:

1. What is one of the greatest challenges to eliminating poverty?

2. What do many countries with rich resources fail in?

3. How many people live on less than $1.25 a day?

Answers:

1. Avert a global recession.

2. Exploration.

3. 1.44 billion.

（中國日報網英語點津 Helen 編輯）

About the broadcaster:

Emily Cheng is an editor at China Daily. She was born in Sydney, Australia and graduated from the University of Sydney with a degree in Media, English Literature and Politics. She has worked in the media industry since starting university and this is the third time she has settled abroad - she interned with a magazine in Hong Kong 2007 and studied at the University of Leeds in 2009.