Our Network partners with Xinjiang University and a local NGO to foster the development of cooperatives among rural villagers that practice solidarity economy under the endorsement of the local government from producing beautiful traditional handicrafts to promoting eco-tourism.

With the support of Victor and William Fung Foundation Limited, the Network completed the year-long "Integrated Food Security and Forest Fire Protection Project for Leadership Home Children in Chiang Mai, Thailand," project with Borderless Friendship Foundation.

APSS Signed a MoU with Vietnam National University and Held a Successful International Conference on Social Work Without Barriers on 1st and 2nd August 2023

The Network co-organized the “Solidarity Economy Symposium” together with the “The People's Food Sovereignty Forum” on 20 and 21 May 2023. Over 60 participants gathered to discuss food security, ecological agriculture, and community solidarity.

The Network's co-creation project, "House of Dreams," which combined the ideas, materials, and labor of over 80 Zhoushan villagers, won the 3rd Human City Design Award grand prize. The unique building complex serves as a community centre in Zhoushan village, Dengfeng, China.

China and Global Development Network works with locals in Gacha Village, Inner Mongolia to develop a cooperative to recover and preserve their agricultural heritage of millet-farming – a traditional crop grown in the area for centuries.

From 2021 to 2022, A community-based health action research project in Yan'an, Sichuan helped local left-behind children, youth, and elderly of the "skipped generation households" in post-disaster community reconstruction.

A new phase of collaboration between the Network and the local team at Zhoushan village sees villagers passionately continuing the renovation of local ancestral cave-dwellings as well as the development of local handicraft products and cultural tourism in Henan, China.