China: Poverty challenged

The Chinese government will enact more support policies to lift the country's 70 million poor people above the poverty line by 2020, President Xi Jinping pledged on Friday ahead of the 23rd International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

Addressing the Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum in Beijing, Xi said China will work to fight the hard battle against poverty.

About 600 million people have escaped from poverty in China in the past 30 years, accounting for about 70 percent of those who have moved beyond poverty worldwide.
  Xinhua - globaltimes.cn
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