Picturing a prosperous society
4 years, 2 months ago

Picturing a prosperous society

China Daily  

As China moves ever closer to its goal eliminating poverty throughout the country, photographers capture the ongoing effort being made to ensure success. He urged the prioritizing of efforts to ensure safe housing, compulsory education and basic medical care for the rural poor, adding that effective measures should be taken to guard against a return to poverty. At present, nearly 700 million people worldwide still live in extreme poverty. Poverty reduction efforts are further challenged by the continued spread of COVID-19 throughout the world, and it is estimated that 70-100 million people worldwide could fall into extreme poverty again due to the pandemic.

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How China energizes global poverty fight
2 weeks, 4 days ago

How China energizes global poverty fight

China Daily  

Ending poverty has long been a major challenge for humanity since ancient times. Centering on "targeted poverty alleviation," China's poverty reduction strategy blends rapid economic growth with tangible improvements in well-being. China's contributions to global poverty alleviation also go beyond financial and technical aid. At the recently concluded G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Chinese President Xi Jinping outlined China's …

China, Africa advance modernization in new era
3 months, 2 weeks ago

China, Africa advance modernization in new era

China Daily  

Chinese experience attractive to Africa Africa's level of economic development is relatively lagging behind compared to other continents, with many developing countries, including those classified by the United Nations as some of the least developed countries, concentrated in Africa. Some successful experiences from China's targeted poverty alleviation efforts may be worth emulating for African countries. China's sustained high-speed economic growth …

China, Africa advance modernization in new era
3 months, 2 weeks ago

China, Africa advance modernization in new era

China Daily  

Chinese experience attractive to Africa Africa's level of economic development is relatively lagging behind compared to other continents, with many developing countries, including those classified by the United Nations as some of the least developed countries, concentrated in Africa. Some successful experiences from China's targeted poverty alleviation efforts may be worth emulating for African countries. China's sustained high-speed economic growth …

Poverty elimination achieved, goal is now common prosperity
3 years, 4 months ago

Poverty elimination achieved, goal is now common prosperity

China Daily  

The central authorities highlighted the urgency and necessity of realizing common prosperity in the process of advancing high-quality development in a meeting in Beijing last week. To realize common prosperity will no longer only be a vision of the country, but a practical development goal for which action plans are being drawn up. Although the executive capabilities of the Chinese …

English edition of Chinese book offers lessons in poverty reduction to the world
3 years, 6 months ago

English edition of Chinese book offers lessons in poverty reduction to the world

China Daily  

China's Way of Poverty Alleviation: Decoding the Governance System of the Communist Party of China In February 2021, President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, announced in a conference held to mark China's poverty alleviation accomplishments that through the joint efforts of the whole Party and …

English edition of Chinese book offers lessons in poverty reduction to the world
3 years, 6 months ago

English edition of Chinese book offers lessons in poverty reduction to the world

China Daily  

China's Way of Poverty Alleviation: Decoding the Governance System of the Communist Party of China In February 2021, President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, announced in a conference held to mark China's poverty alleviation accomplishments that through the joint efforts of the whole Party and …

Everyone must matter
3 years, 6 months ago

Everyone must matter

China Daily  

JIN DING/CHINA DAILY China has proved that where there is the will there is the way to eradicate poverty President Xi Jinping stated that abject poverty had been eradicated in China. This was the main reason China's extreme poverty rate fell to 1 percent in 2019, from 88.3 percent in 1981. Over the past eight years, China has lifted 98.99 …

China Says It Has Ended Poverty. Is That True?
3 years, 7 months ago

China Says It Has Ended Poverty. Is That True?

NPR  

China Says It Has Ended Poverty. Sponsor Message But a central issue in Qixingguan and other rural regions remains the lack of high-paying jobs, which are still overwhelmingly concentrated in China's coastal cities. "Shifting poor people into cities can also be a way of reducing rural poverty, but it can come at the cost of increased urban poverty," says John …

How China eradicated absolute poverty
3 years, 8 months ago

How China eradicated absolute poverty

China Daily  

Abuluoha village, China's last village without a road, is connected to the outside world with its new road in Butuo county, Sichuan province as seen in June, 2020. Within a span of 40 years, China has lifted about 800 million people out of absolute poverty and become the second-largest economy in the world. Having been regular visitors to China since …

China sets example for global poverty reduction
3 years, 9 months ago

China sets example for global poverty reduction

China Daily  

The sun sets on Jinxing village in Chengbu Miao ethnic autonomous county, Hunan province. By the end of 2020, China had met its poverty reduction target as scheduled after eight years' efforts. With these goals forming part of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, China has met this target 10 years ahead of schedule. Alongside Indonesia, China has contributed …

China sets example for global poverty reduction
3 years, 9 months ago

China sets example for global poverty reduction

China Daily  

The sun sets on Jinxing village in Chengbu Miao ethnic autonomous county, Hunan province. By the end of 2020, China had met its poverty reduction target as scheduled after eight years' efforts. With these goals forming part of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, China has met this target 10 years ahead of schedule. Alongside Indonesia, China has contributed …

China's President Xi Jinping trumpets 'complete victory' in campaign to end rural poverty
3 years, 9 months ago

China's President Xi Jinping trumpets 'complete victory' in campaign to end rural poverty

ABC  

China's government is celebrating President Xi Jinping's "complete victory" in the country's campaign to eradicate rural poverty. Key points: Mr Xi says China has invested 1.6 trillion yuan in fighting poverty over the past eight years Average income per person among the "rural underprivileged" in China reportedly more than tripled between 2015 and 2020 China is still using standards applied …

China celebrates official end of extreme poverty, lauds Xi
3 years, 10 months ago

China celebrates official end of extreme poverty, lauds Xi

Associated Press  

BEIJING — The ruling Communist Party is celebrating the official end of extreme poverty in China with a propaganda campaign that praises President Xi Jinping’s role, part of efforts to cement his image as a history-making leader who is reclaiming his country’s rightful place as a global power. They credit Xi with launching an initiative shortly after taking power in …

Chinese President Xi Jinping declares 'complete victory' in eradicating poverty
3 years, 10 months ago

Chinese President Xi Jinping declares 'complete victory' in eradicating poverty

India TV News  

President Xi Jinping on Thursday declared that China has scored a "complete victory" in its fight against poverty by lifting over 770 million people out of it in the last four decades, calling it another "miracle" created by the country that will go down in history. Since the launch of the reform and opening up in the late 1970s, 770 …

Analysis: China's unsustainable poverty eradication claims are a house of cards
3 years, 10 months ago

Analysis: China's unsustainable poverty eradication claims are a house of cards

The Telegraph  

China is awash with propaganda declaring that poverty has been eradicated in the nation of 1.4 billion people – a sweeping assertion that has drawn doubts given the government’s criteria for making the claim. China defines "extreme rural poverty" as an annual per capita income of 4,000 yuan, or roughly $1.70 a day, compared to the World Bank’s global threshold …

China’s Xi declares ‘complete victory’ against rural poverty
3 years, 10 months ago

China’s Xi declares ‘complete victory’ against rural poverty

Al Jazeera  

China says about 98.99 million people in countryside have been lifted out of poverty in the last eight years. China’s President Xi Jinping has declared “complete victory” in his government’s effort to eradicate rural poverty, lifting the income of nearly 100 million people over the past eight years. Since the launch of the reform and opening up in the late …

China has reached a major milestone in ending absolute poverty. But the Communist Party isn’t celebrating yet
4 years ago

China has reached a major milestone in ending absolute poverty. But the Communist Party isn’t celebrating yet

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN — Chinese President Xi Jinping reached a major milestone this week in his five-year long fight to end absolute poverty across the country – but it doesn’t appear that he’s celebrating yet. State-run television station CGTN celebrated on its website that China had ended absolute poverty “one month before self-imposed deadline.” Speaking on Tuesday at his daily …

Not an end, but a starting point
4 years, 1 month ago

Not an end, but a starting point

China Daily  

A villager in Fuping county, Shaanxi province, cleans persimmons to be processed into dry snacks. TAO MING/XINHUA An old friend of China is in awe as the country approaches its long-held goal of eradicating extreme poverty Editor's note: As China aims to eliminate extreme poverty and be a "moderately prosperous society" in time for the 100th anniversary of the founding …

Full commitment to sustain improved lives
4 years, 1 month ago

Full commitment to sustain improved lives

China Daily  

In 1994, agricultural researcher Zeng Fuping arrived deep amid the karst mountains of South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. Zeng, then 30, was part of a team studying the use of latest farming practices and technology, to improve the lives of ethnic communities in the Huanjiang Maonan autonomous county of Guangxi's northern area. Zeng's lifelong commitment on the ground in …

Picturing a prosperous society
4 years, 2 months ago

Picturing a prosperous society

China Daily  

As China moves ever closer to its goal eliminating poverty throughout the country, photographers capture the ongoing effort being made to ensure success. He urged the prioritizing of efforts to ensure safe housing, compulsory education and basic medical care for the rural poor, adding that effective measures should be taken to guard against a return to poverty. At present, nearly …

Dispatching problem of poverty has made world a much better place
4 years, 2 months ago

Dispatching problem of poverty has made world a much better place

China Daily  

Positive outcomes Goldin hopes one of the more positive outcomes of the pandemic will be the rejection of nationalism and protectionism and an acceptance that globalization is the only solution to the world's problems. "China in many senses has sustained the global economy, and it's been the strongest locomotive by far to the global economy since the financial crisis, and …

Dispatching problem of poverty has made world a much better place
4 years, 2 months ago

Dispatching problem of poverty has made world a much better place

China Daily  

Children exercise in a kindergarten in Sansui county, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture, Guizhou province. YANG WENBIN/XINHUA Success of eradication drive lauded as an extraordinary achievement Editor's note: As China aims to eliminate extreme poverty and be a "moderately prosperous society" in time for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China next year, we …

China's anti-poverty paragon village eliminates last remains of poverty
4 years, 5 months ago

China's anti-poverty paragon village eliminates last remains of poverty

China Daily  

China's Shibadong village, the birthplace of "targeted poverty alleviation," has lifted all families out of poverty, sending a heartening message as the nation scrambles to eradicate absolute poverty by 2020. The village in central China's Hunan Province has seen the poverty headcount ratio drop to zero, down from 57 percent in 2013, said Shi Jintong, Party chief of the village, …

Decades-old dream of poverty-free China about to come true
4 years, 5 months ago

Decades-old dream of poverty-free China about to come true

China Daily  

Farmers harvest organic vegetables in a greenhouse in Henan province in December, 2019. Editor's Note: China is striding firmly toward achieving its goal of eliminating absolute poverty by the end of this year. Statistics show that in the seven decades, about 800 million people have been lifted out of absolute poverty in China thanks to the efforts of the Party …

Decades-old dream of poverty-free China about to come true
4 years, 5 months ago

Decades-old dream of poverty-free China about to come true

China Daily  

Farmers harvest organic vegetables in a greenhouse in Henan province in December, 2019. Editor's Note: China is striding firmly toward achieving its goal of eliminating absolute poverty by the end of this year. Statistics show that in the seven decades, about 800 million people have been lifted out of absolute poverty in China thanks to the efforts of the Party …

Ending China’s poverty in 2020 was going to be Xi Jinping’s crowning achievement. Coronavirus might have ruined it
4 years, 5 months ago

Ending China’s poverty in 2020 was going to be Xi Jinping’s crowning achievement. Coronavirus might have ruined it

CNN  

Hong Kong CNN Business — This was supposed to be the year that Beijing would announce it had ended absolute poverty in China, fulfilling a key pledge of President Xi Jinping and one of the founding missions of the Chinese Communist Party. “As long as employment continues to recover or mostly recovers by the end of the year, they’re going …

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