国内英语资讯:Backgrounder: Xi Jinping and Chinas remarkable progress in poverty reduction_时事

国内英语资讯:Backgrounder: Xi Jinping and Chinas remarkable progress in poverty reduction

-- Under that blueprint, China will eradicate absolute poverty by 2020 and double per capita income from 2010 level.

-- More than 700 million Chinese people have been lifted out of poverty over the past 40 years. The country's proportion of people living below the Chinese poverty line fell from 97.5 percent in 1978 to 3.1 percent among the rural population at the end of 2017.

--In the past six years, China lifted 82.39 million rural poor out of poverty, with the rural poor population down from 98.99 million in 2017 to 16.6 million in 2018.

-- By the end of 2018, more than half of the 832 poverty-stricken counties had escaped poverty.

-- Per capita income of Chinese people increased by nearly 25 times from 1978 to 2018. In 2018, per capita disposable income of rural residents in poverty-stricken areas stood at 10,371 yuan, a 10.6-percent year-on-year rise.

STRONG ROLE OF GOVERNMENT

With Xi Jinping in charge, China's poverty-relief battle has made decisive progress and provided global poverty relief with Chinese solutions.

--Last June, Xi presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee to review a plan on efforts in poverty alleviation, stressing that the battle against poverty was one of the "three tough battles" that the country must win to build a moderately prosperous society.

--Last October, the CPC Central Committee arranged a new round of disciplinary inspections targeting poverty alleviation, the first of its kind, to intensify local governments' poverty-reduction efforts.