Poverty Alleviation Success Not to Be Demeaned
Dec 10, 2020
3 minutes
By Lan Xinzhen
Copyedited by Garth Wilson
On November 23, officials in Guizhou Province, southwest China, officially declared the final nine severely impoverished counties were free from poverty. To date, all 832 areas across China that were previously identified as impoverished have been lifted out of poverty, marking the elimination of extreme poverty across the country.
Some Western media, however, have cast doubts on the veracity of this announcement. They are seemingly unable or unwilling to believe that China’s elderly, weak, disabled and underprivileged
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