There is still a long way to go, especially in narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas, but the current achievements are solid proof of the Chinese government’s irrevocable commitment to the happiness and well-being of people.
The improvement of infrastructure, public services and living conditions in China cannot alone provide solutions and set the way forward. What is required is an ambitious modernization plan that will empower the competitiveness in Chinese regions that lag behind.
Finding Answers in China goes to Chongli, a county in North China’s Hebei province and checks out its transformation from a poverty-stricken district to an attractive Olympic district to find out just how China is removing more people from its poverty list.
In order to move forward, Xi’s thought underscores the mobilization of the Party cadres to a level of alertness and discipline that was last seen during Mao, where deliverables, governance, and decisions are taken with Party ideology and the people’s well-being at their heart.
The elimination of absolute poverty in Tibet is a victory of socialism with Chinese characteristics, a path that has significantly improved Tibetan people’s livelihood in all its dimensions, material, cultural and beyond.
As the green development concept becomes espoused by growing numbers of Chinese people, many Chinese cities previously plagued by smoggy days are now growingly beguiled by blue skies. This change is thanks to the country’s implementation of a wide range of green development policies.
Now that the Tibet Autonomous Region has successfully shaken off the scourge of extreme poverty, attention has turned towards future development.
China’s development experiences provide substantive lessons to other developing countries, and although they all have different national contexts, China’s experiences can be effectively adapted to address local challenges through the South-South Cooperation platform.
The Chinese experience since 1978 shows that a developing country should take the improvement of people’s livelihood as a top priority, and take poverty eradication as a core human right.
The more refined a legal system is for social security, the clearer expectations the public will have, and much more stable a society will be.
Since its reform and opening-up started, China has implemented the poverty alleviation and development strategy in an organized, planned, and large-scale manner. It has become the first developing country to reach its poverty reduction target, a part of the UN Millennium Development Goals, contributing to the eradication of poverty in the world by more than 70 percent.
China will deepen international cooperation in poverty reduction, participate more actively in global governance, and provide more “China programs” for global poverty management.
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