When Mao Zedong stood on Tian anmen Rostrum in Beijing to declare the birth of New China in 1949, a Herculean task stood before him and the Communist Party of China (CPC) that he led: feeding and clothing 540 million Chinese people, nearly 90 percent of whom lived in rural areas.
Poverty is not socialism, socialism means eliminating poverty, and we must keep abreast of the times; that is the purpose of our reform, said Deng Xiaoping, the visionary chief architect of China s reform and opening-up which began in 1978 when the country s incidence of rural poverty was 97.5 percent.
Eradicating poverty is a war China must win, with the hardest and most arduous tasks lie in the country s rural areas and poverty-stricken regions.
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With China on course to attain its goal of building itself into a moderately prosperous society in all respects this year, its international development cooperation is also set to enter a new stage, according to experts.
Tshepo Heqoa s family was struggling to make ends meet amid a growing number of climate-related woes, such as drought, floods, pests and extreme temperatures occurring more frequently.
The 29-year-old lives in Koalabata, a small village in the Berea district of Lesotho in southern Africa, where farmers like him rely on cultivating soybeans, sugar beans, maize and wheat for a living.
Life had been hard. My mother was a sole bread winner, and she had to pay for the tuition of my college education, he recalled in an online interview.
Heqoa was introduced to growing mushrooms in 2014 by his peers. But he found the technology difficult to grasp and had only occasional success.
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