Local officials once helped to drive China’s economic growth. In the 2000s they fiercely competed to crank up GDP, scrambling to attract investment to provinces, cities and villages. But when Xi ...

With strenuous and unified efforts, China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty, and has met ahead of schedule the poverty reduction target of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...

In the country’s vast rural regions, officials armed with poverty relapse dossiers are struggling to track and help the vulnerable avoid destitution. China salesman sleeps in car to save money ...

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 ...

In his address, Ambassador Wu highlighted how far China had progressed in the past 75 years lifting more than a billion ...

Since China began to open up and reform its economy in 1978, GDP growth has averaged over 9 percent a year, and more than 800 million people have lifted themselves out of poverty. There have also been ...

China's government announced it will offer a one-time cash allowance to those in extreme poverty. Earlier this week, the PBOC rolled out a slate of stimulus measures aimed at shoring up the economy.

China has worked hard to reduce the number of citizens who live in poverty. The number of people in China who earn less than $1.90 (£1.25) per day, which is the line the World Bank uses to ...

When a fellow Governing Council Member of the Marga Institute suggested that I represent our organisation at the 2nd Global ...

It’s a success story that highlights how even people in the most far-flung communities are being lifted out of poverty by technology—particularly artificial intelligence, or AI. Since China ...