China's poverty reduction offers design material for entrepreneurs building inclusive markets elsewhere. But alleviation isn't the endpoint: how can we move rural communities from objects of support to subjects of value creation?
乡村社区经常被视为接受支持的对象，而不是价值创造的主体。“民为邦本”提供了不同的出发点：可持续发展必须建立在社区自身的组织能力、参与权与长期发展能力之上。本场论坛将借鉴中国从减贫走向乡村振兴的经验，探讨乡村如何从依赖项目与外部资源，走向能够持续创造价值的本地经济系统。来自乡村创业、投资、社区实践和平台建设等领域的嘉宾，将讨论集体组织、农村电商、物流、金融、生态生产及文化资产如何帮助本地生产者连接市场，并形成更稳定的收入与发展路径。论坛也将追问：外部资本与技术究竟是在增强本地技能、所有权与治理能力，还是在攫取土地、劳动力与文化资源？真正的衡量标准，是当外部项目结束之后，社区是否仍能继续组织、创造和分享价值。
Rural communities are often treated as recipients of support rather than as active creators of value. 民为邦本—the people are the foundation— offers a different starting point: lasting development must be built on a community’s own capacity to organise, participate and continue developing over time. Drawing on China’s transition from poverty alleviation to rural revitalisation, this session explores how rural communities can move beyond dependence on projects and external resources towards locally rooted systems of value creation. Voices from rural entrepreneurship, investment, community practice and platform development will examine how collective organisation, e-commerce, logistics, finance, ecological production and cultural assets can connect local producers with wider markets and more sustainable livelihoods. The session will also ask whether outside capital and technology strengthen local skills, ownership and governance—or extract land, labour and cultural resources. The ultimate test is whether communities can continue to organise, create and share value after external programmes have ended.
