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25
February
2021

China announces completion of its poverty alleviation goal

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📅 25 February 2021 📍 China

China’s leadership announced that extreme rural poverty had been eliminated under its national poverty line. The achievement reflected large-scale public investment and targeted programs, but the claim uses a national threshold and does not erase inequality, precarious work, or poverty measured against higher international standards.

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Xi Jinping

State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation

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