Beijing says it has met its goal of wiping out extreme poverty in China by the end of 2020. The top-down effort has disrupted untold individual lives.

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Beijing says it has met its goal of wiping out extreme poverty in China by the end of 2020. The top-down effort has disrupted untold individual lives. Nov. 27, 2020.

In 2019 alone, China’s Ministry for Water Resources said that 1 million people were given access to safe drinking water. State-run newspaper China Daily said that since the poverty alleviation ...

Their short videos are a small part of a massive nationwide attempt to lift all of China’s 1.4 billion people out of poverty by 2020 – a goal which President Xi Jinping set in a speech in 2015.

China defines extreme rural poverty as annual per capita income of less than $620, or about $1.69 a day at current exchange rates, according to Reuters. That compares to the World Bank’s global ...

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Their short videos are a small part of a massive nationwide attempt to lift all of China’s 1.4 billion people out of poverty by 2020 – a goal which President Xi Jinping set in a speech in 2015.

Attendees applaud during a ceremony to mark the official end of extreme poverty in China held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021.