It was hard to get adequate food and clothing," An recalled. However, thanks to China's poverty alleviation project, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture cast off poverty at the end of 2020.

China claimed last year it had met its target of lifting all its people out of extreme poverty. President Xi Jinping heralded it as a “major victory” that the Chinese Communist Party had ...

Last year Yanji and Ningbo in East China’s Zhejiang province joined hands, with the aim of helping reduce poverty in Yanji. Meanwhile, Yanbian Guotai New Energy Vehicles Co Ltd and Ningbo ...

It is important to recognise that the global battle to end this immense human suffering is winnable, as China’s recent successes in eradicating extreme poverty clearly demonstrate. In November 2024, I ...

China was for decades one of the world’s most impoverished countries and ending absolute poverty has been an important policy goal for Xi. The Chinese leader pledged to meet his target by the ...

More than one in five people live in extreme poverty globally, according to a new report, though China’s continued economic growth has improved the lives of millions. The poverty rate in the ...

President Xi Jinping made the campaign one of his signature policy issues after pledging in 2015 that China would lift the 70 million people living under the poverty level at the time out of ...

The sheer scale of China’s overall achievements when it comes to poverty alleviation is remarkable. More than 850 million people have been lifted out of extreme penury in under four decades ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.