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  • Official: China's poverty standard higher than World Bank level

    China's poverty standard is based on multiple factors, and the standard is actually higher than the poverty line set by the World Bank, an official said at a press conference on Tuesday.

    April 7, 2021

  • China's ethnic minority areas see major drop in poverty

    From 2016 to 2020, the poor population dropped by 15.6 million in China's five autonomous regions (Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Tibet, Ningxia, Xinjiang) and three provinces with a large multi-ethnic population (Guizhou, Yunnan, Qinghai), according to a white paper issued on Tuesday.

    April 7, 2021

  • China contributes to over 70% of global poverty alleviation

    China has lifted 770 million rural people out of poverty over the past 40-plus years of reform and opening up, which accounts for over 70% of the world population that escaped poverty during that span, according to a white paper released on Tuesday.

    April 7, 2021

  • China shares experience in poverty relief

    Countries racing to curb dire poverty are advised to formulate relief plans based on conditions on the ground and to adopt a "scientific" attitude while deciding the poverty thresholds, aims and strategies for their own campaigns, a Chinese official said on Tuesday.

    April 7, 2021

  • BRI to lift 7.6 million people out of extreme poverty

    China released a white paper on poverty alleviation Tuesday. The white paper cited a World Bank study saying that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will help lift 7.6 million people out of extreme poverty and 32 million people out of moderate poverty globally.

    April 6, 2021

  • What China offers with white paper on poverty alleviation

    ​China on Tuesday released a white paper on poverty alleviation, expounding how the world's most populous country has eliminated extreme poverty at home and carried out cooperation with the rest of the world to tackle one of the most arduous challenges in human history.

    April 6, 2021

  • China issues white paper on poverty alleviation

    China's State Council Information Office on Tuesday issued a white paper titled "Poverty Alleviation: China's Experience and Contribution."

    April 6, 2021

  • Economic growth sustained, rapid in China's impoverished areas: white paper

    China's poor areas have achieved sustained and rapid economic growth as the battle against poverty released the potential of these areas and injected vigor into their development, said a white paper issued on Tuesday.

    April 6, 2021