National
March 8, 2021
Chinese President Xi Jinping had promised his nation to eradicate absolute poverty in China by 2021, the 100th Birthday of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Prima facie, it may have seemed a tall claim. A nation that was born destitute in 1949, ravaged by the wars against Japanese imperialism, the Second World War and 1945 onwards fighting against the Kuomintang, who had the support of the Occident, which was afraid of the rise of Communism. The Kuomintang were defeated and driven out but before they left, they plundered the national treasury and torched the crops. To add insult to injury, the world turned its back upon the People’s Republic of China, treating it as a pariah, sans diplomatic ties, recognition and prohibiting even humanitarian agencies from providing much needed support. Left to fend for themselves, the Chinese suffered the worst famine in recorded history and it is a remarkable phenomenon that the CPC pulled its teeming millions, out of
2021-03-02 02:54:53 GMT2021-03-02 10:54:53(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhua) China watchers worldwide have spoken highly of a new report, titled Chinese Poverty Alleviation Studies: A Political Economy Perspective, on deciphering the country s latest anti-poverty accomplishments, saying it is very inspiring for other countries.
The report, drawing on Chinese President Xi Jinping s discourses on poverty alleviation as ideological and theoretical foundations, decodes the winning formula in China s anti-poverty fight, explores the rationale behind the fight and its global implications.
The report, released by New China Research (NCR), the think tank of Xinhua News Agency, gives a very detailed and systematic explanation of how China made the achievements in eradicating absolute poverty last year.
At a grand gathering held in Beijing on Thursday to mark China s victory in its fight against absolute poverty, Shibadong, a Miao ethnic enclave in the central Chinese Province of Hunan, was honored for its outstanding achievements in the country s battle against penury.
It was in Shibadong, once a poverty-stricken mountainous village that China s strategy of targeted poverty alleviation was first put forward. Villagers there blazed a trail in poverty reduction and set an example for the country and the world.
That partially explains why Lao leader Bounnhang Vorachith led a high-level delegation to the village in 2018 to explore China s experience in targeted poverty alleviation, or precise on-the-ground measures to help lift the last remaining nearly 100-million people from deprivation.
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