Video Player Close BEIJING, Feb. 26 (Xinhua) -- The United Arab Emirates' (UAE) ambassador to China, Ali Obaid Al Dhaheri, has praised China's achievements of eradicating absolute poverty despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The achievements showed the country's high-standard planning, and will have ripple effect globally and benefit the whole world, the ambassador told Xinhua in a recent interview. The removal of all national-level poverty-stricken counties from the poverty list represents an achievement in China's endeavor to eradicate absolute poverty, which caps off a long-standing government policy of reducing inequities in society, he said. When the World Bank first released poverty figures in 1990, two thirds of the Chinese population were estimated to be living below the poverty line. So, in just two generations, a significant percentage of the world's population has been lifted out of poverty, the ambassador said. It is also a strong indicator that China is right on ... » Learn More about Eradicating absolute poverty amid pandemic to benefit world: UAE ambassador
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Interview: Strong, committed government assures China’s poverty alleviation success — expert
Video Player Close WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- China's success in poverty alleviation cannot be achieved without the "remarkable commitment" made by a "strong, command-down" government led by the Communist Party of China (CPC), a leading U.S. expert on China has said. "China's poverty alleviation story is one of the great stories of the world. I believe future historians will look back to (it) as a defining feature of our age. Certainly, it is China's great achievement," Robert Lawrence Kuhn, chairman of the Kuhn Foundation, told Xinhua in a recent interview. Those who recognize China's unprecedented poverty-alleviation success must also "recognize its causal relationship" to China's system led by the CPC and a strong government, Kuhn said. The expert believed that Chinese President Xi Jinping's leadership and commitment to poverty alleviation are one of the prime reasons for such an achievement. It is a "remarkable commitment" that Xi, also general secretary of the ... » Learn More about Interview: Strong, committed government assures China’s poverty alleviation success — expert
President Xi declares China poverty free
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