WATCH: China s poverty alleviation accomplishments is a developmental miracle
Robert Lawrence Kuhn
On July 31, 2019, PBS SoCal, the PBS flagship public television station in Southern California in the United States, premiered my documentary on China s historic poverty alleviation campaign: Voices from the Frontline: China s War on Povertyâ (Adam Zhu, executive producer; Peter Getzels, director), the inside story of China s race to eradicate all absolute poverty by 2020, the first in-depth documentary about China s poverty alleviation campaign to be broadcast abroad.
Working with the CPC Organization Department, the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, and with CGTN, our production partner, our international film crew had unprecedented access to travel across China, embedded in the country s massive poverty alleviation programs. We met poor villagers, local officials, special monitors â those being lifted out of poverty, those assig