Poverty road in China drives some to riches, leaves others behind
Complex criteria to determine who gets aid has also fuelled unhappiness
AFP
February 25, 2021
Although Liu received a grant as a poverty-stricken household he says business has been weak. AFP
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 the breadline.
In it, the cause of his family's hardship is diagnosed as "illness" and "schooling", followed by a list of ways the state has helped, from grain subsidies to improving the yield of their orange groves.