China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty since 1978. The nation is aiming to eliminate poverty by 2020, according to the latest five-year plan, which targets 70 million remaining poor.

China will indeed have eradicated poverty by its own metrics by the end of this year. In Bangdong, the campaign’s effects are obvious. New two- and three-story houses now stand where shabby earthen ...

A mammoth undertaking For much of the 20th century, China was one of the most impoverished countries in the world. Beijing defines absolute poverty as surviving on less than $324 a year (2,300 ...

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.

Rural Poor Aren't Sharing In Spoils of China's Changes. Costs of Goods Rise, Standard of Living Falls. July 11, 2005. By Peter S. Goodman. SANBAIHU VILLAGE, China ...

Xinhua Institute, a national high-level think tank of Xinhua News Agency, on Friday released a report on China's poverty ...

About a decade ago China drew its rural poverty line at 2,300 yuan a year, or 6.3 yuan a day. The World Bank’s most commonly used global poverty line is $1.90 a day.

The poor village girl in northwestern China had become a successful businesswoman. Then she was crushed. In 2018, state-owned banks abruptly stopped lending to her business, ...

At his village along a "poverty alleviation road" in Hunan province, farmer Liu Qingyou shares a booklet detailing how Xi Jinping's government has hoisted him and 100 million other Chinese from ...

China has all but met President Xi Jinping’s pledge to eradicate extreme poverty by 2020. More than 800 counties considered severely impoverished just under a decade ago have now cleared a ...

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.