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Backgrounder: Xi Jinping and China's remarkable progress in poverty reduction
en.hangzhou.com.cn   2019-04-19 10:40   Source:

PEOPLE FIRST

With the world's largest population, China has been boosting its economic development on one major theme: improving people's livelihoods. This has become a fundamental goal and a consistent priority in policy-making. A typical example is the development blueprint for building a moderately prosperous society.

-- Under that blueprint, China will eradicate absolute poverty by 2020 and double per capita income from 2010 level.

-- More than 700 million Chinese people have been lifted out of poverty over the past 40 years. The country's proportion of people living below the Chinese poverty line fell from 97.5 percent in 1978 to 3.1 percent among the rural population at the end of 2017.

--In the past six years, China lifted 82.39 million rural poor out of poverty, with the rural poor population down from 98.99 million in 2012 to 16.6 million in 2018.

-- By the end of 2018, more than half of the 832 poverty-stricken counties had escaped poverty.

-- Per capita income of Chinese people increased by nearly 25 times from 1978 to 2018. In 2018, per capita disposable income of rural residents in poverty-stricken areas stood at 10,371 yuan, a 10.6-percent year-on-year rise.

Author:Xinhua  Editor:Xiao Yimin
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