‘Poverty in China vs US’ Is More Than Just Economics *This is the kind of news that makes you wonder just what the hell is ...

Yang Qinglai and his son Yang Jiacun are among a handful of residents still living in Lianghekou, China, after most of the villagers were relocated to new apartments as part of the communist country's ...

China declared in 2021 that it had stamped out extreme poverty. While critics question the self-proclaimed triumph, the central government’s strategy of adjusting cadre appraisals to focus on ...

LIANGSHAN, China (Reuters) - President Xi Jinping beamed down benevolently from a poster in the new flat of unemployed Jigu Gatie, provided by the Chinese government as part of efforts to tackle ...

This article provides a detailed analysis of China’s ongoing struggle against poverty. In addition to discussing the recently concluded targeted poverty alleviation program, in which the CPC-led ...

Last November, China’s South West province of Guizhou announced that its last nine impoverished counties have been lifted out of absolute poverty, which translated that all registered impoverished ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping reached a major milestone this week in his five-year long fight to end absolute poverty across the country – but it doesn’t appear that he’s celebrating yet. China was for ...

In this Sept. 10, 2020, file photo, a Yi woman watches new village houses decorated with colorful paintings which were built by the Chinese government for the ethnic minority members in Ganluo county, ...

This was supposed to be the year that Beijing would announce it had ended absolute poverty in China, fulfilling a key pledge of President Xi Jinping and one of the founding missions of the Chinese ...

SINCE 2017 China’s government has described fighting poverty as one of three “tough” or “critical” battles (alongside quelling pollution and financial risk). Despite the covid-19 pandemic, it still ...

BEIJING — The ruling Communist Party is celebrating the official end of extreme poverty in China with a propaganda campaign praising President Xi Jinping, part of the regime’s efforts to cement his ...

LIANGHEKOU, China — Standing near a mountaintop, overlooking two empty villages of mud and straw homes below, Communist Party secretary Cai Hongmin beamed: “We plucked out the people’s roots of ...