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.
Not only is it important for China and other countries to work internally on a restart and return to growth, but also to work together on this global problem that requires both domestic and global solutions.
Those achievements have laid a solid foundation for eliminating absolute poverty which has plagued China for over a millennia.
With effective collective action, poverty in all its forms can be eliminated, and the SDGs can become a reality for everyone, everywhere.
In 2019 alone, about 340 impoverished counties and 10 million people were lifted out of poverty. And Xi has pledged that after the eradication of absolutely poverty in 2020, China will launch a campaign to eliminate relative poverty.
If anybody can show the world how to do that last mile [of ending extreme poverty], it probably is China.
The statement that China’s economic achievement is the greatest in human history in terms, not only of improvement of the conditions in China but of improvement of the overall condition of humanity, is therefore not one made by an “overheated” Chinese nationalist.
According to President Xi, in achieving success in the poverty alleviation program, it is important that their enthusiasm is aroused and that an appeal is made to their creativity.
The exploration of urbanization in China will continue to be an important part of the world’s practice, while the nation remains committed to contributing its experiences and solutions.
It is fair to say that China’s achievement in poverty reduction, like its economic growth, is a miracle too.
In coping with the disease itself and the economic and social impacts it creates, our moral guide must be the old saying to ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’
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