China welcomes participation by more countries in the Global Development Initiative and is ready to work with the international community to advance exchanges and cooperation on poverty reduction and rural development, Vice-Premier Hu Chunhua said on Tuesday.
China welcomes participation by more countries in the Global Development Initiative and is ready to work with the international community to advance exchanges and cooperation on poverty reduction and rural development, Vice-Premier Hu Chunhua said on Tuesday.
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Jinggangshan, the heartland of the early revolutionary activities of the CPC, announced that it had been officially taken off the list of impoverished areas.
The 2017 Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum kicked off in Beijing. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres sent a letter of congratulation to the meeting commending China s poverty-reduction strategy. He said that China had lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and China s poverty-alleviation experience could provide useful lessons for other developing countries.
The number of rural people living in poverty had dropped from 98.99 million at the end of 2012 to 30.46 million at the end of 2017, and 68.53 million people had been lifted out of poverty in the past five years, a reduction of about 70 percent.