Events happed at county or grassroots levels with the participation of poor students and with supports from the local governments including the local womens federations, local youth league and the local education bureaus.

Participants include university students, middle school and primary school students, handicapped people, poor farmers, migrant workers' children and ordinary families.
The GCAP China Steering Committee distributed around 30,000 white wristbands, 30,000 bookmarks and around 3000 white t-shirts and bags.

With a slogan of United Against Poverty, all the participating schools organized various pre-event activities such as photos exhibitions, movie shows, and poverty forums.

23,542,614 people, in over eighty countries around the world set a new Guinness World Record for the largest number of people to "STAND UP AGAINST POVERTY". In Asia, 18,195,126 people took the pledge for poverty eradication. The Stand Up record attempt, an initiative of the United Nations Millennium Campaign in partnership with the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) was set in time for the United Nations International Day for Poverty Eradication on 17 October.

From May 8 to 14, ActionAid China, working in partnership with UNESCO Office Beijing, Yunnan Institute of Educational Science and Guangxi Foreign Capital Management Centre for Poverty Reduction, held a Reflect training workshop in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, for minority women facilitators, as well as mentors and project coordinators of the programme.

The facilitators were from eight villages in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Yunnan Province. The workshop is part of a one-year pilot programme, aiming to build the capacity of village women in the two regions through adapting the Reflect approach in China.

In addition, the pilot programme also seeks to develop a support mechanism to ensure sustainability in the programme implementation, as well as to prepare for possible future expansion of the programme.

At the beginning of the workshop, the participants, especially the village women facilitators, expressed concern for their ability to grasp the Reflect concept and learn the tools for starting their Reflect circles. At the end of the workshop, the participants, especially the facilitators, were visibly more confident. They were delighted that they had the opportunity to learn many new and useful things through the workshop. The workshop has also strengthened their link with the county and provincial-level mentors and coordinators. In addition, it has bonded the project teams from the two provinces together, opening up more opportunity for mutual sharing and learning.