As students celebrated finishing the highly competitive national college entrance exam, or gaokao, on Tuesday afternoon, Zhang Guimei, founder and principal of the first free high school for girls in China, said she needed to "hide" in her office.
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Across news media outlets and social media platforms, the blitz around Chinaâs poverty alleviation campaign has fixated millions. On 25 February, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced at the National Poverty Alleviation Summary and Commendation Conference that âmy country’s poverty alleviation battle has won an overall victoryâ.
âShaking off poverty is not the finish line, but the starting point of a new life and new endeavour,â said Xi Jinping.
China claims to have lifted the remaining 98.99 million people from poverty and achieved the goal of âzero povertyâ across the country. The campaign is close to Xi Jinpingâs heart because âcompleteâ eradication of poverty was a goal he had set after assuming office in 2012.
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Characteristic tourism, internet and new policies help lift incomes in rural areas By Ma Jingjing and Yin Yeping Published: Feb 24, 2021 08:58 PM
A farmer displays newly-harvested pumpkins in Xujiaba Township, Sinan County of southwest China s Guizhou Province, Aug. 12, 2020. Guizhou, which used to be a provincial-level region with the biggest population of poor people, has lifted more than 9 million people out of poverty since 2012. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)
China has made remarkable achievements in lifting approximately 100 million people from poverty, a hard-won result of top-down policy support, nation-wide solidarity and commercial innovation.
From characteristic tourism to e-commerce to innovative lending, many business strategies and technological achievements have contributed to the mighty task.