Beijing: Xi Jinping President of China announced on Thursday that China has “fully won” the fight against poverty by improving the economic level of more than 77 million people in the last four decades. Has acquired. He said that it is a “miracle” performed by the country, which will be recorded in the pages of history. While addressing the program organized here on the country’s achievement in poverty alleviation, Xi announced that poverty has been completely eradicated from the world’s most populous country. China’s population is around 1.4 billion.
Xi said that all the poor people living in rural areas have been lifted out of poverty and with this, China has achieved the United Nations target on poverty alleviation 10 years before the 2030 deadline. He said that the last 9.899 crore poor people living in rural areas were taken out of poverty in the last more than eight years. All 832 poor counties and 1,28,000 poor villages have come out of the poverty list.
Xi said that from the reforms introduced in the late 1970s to the present poverty line of China, 77 crore poor people have been lifted out of poverty. He said that China contributed more than 70 percent of the global poverty reduction during this period. Xi said that with these achievements China performed a “miracle”, which would be “recorded in the pages of history”.
Xi took power at the end of 2012, and at the time he called the complete eradication of poverty his main goal. At that time there were about 100 million poor people in China.
