Day: 9 3 月, 2021

Despite a raging pandemic and tough economic challenges, China clinched victory in eradicating absolute poverty last year, achieving the poverty reduction goal set by the United Nations (UN)’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development a decade in advance.

At a grand gathering held in Beijing on Thursday to mark China’s victory in its fight against absolute poverty, Shibadong, a Miao ethnic enclave in the central Chinese Province of Hunan, was honored for its outstanding achievements in the country’s battle against penury.

China’s poverty alleviation achievements have made a great contribution to the cause of global poverty reduction, and provided important inspiration for other developing countries in lifting themselves out of poverty, a UN official told Xinhua in an exclusive interview on Monday.

China’s success in reducing poverty within its borders in recent decades can stand out as an example for other countries that seek to alleviate poverty, analysts have said.

China has made historic achievements in eradicating absolute overty. It was a problem that has plagued the Chinese nation for thousands of years. It is also a victory for humanity.

A research paper titled “Chinese Poverty Alleviation Studies: A Political Economy Perspective” was released Sunday by New China Research, the think tank of Xinhua News Agency, summarizing some of the glossaries related to the country’s poverty alleviation practices.

The academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) have made great efforts in poverty alleviation and will continue to contribute their wisdom to rural vitalization, CAE President Li Xiaohong said.

The ongoing pandemic coupled with profound changes unseen in a century have made world affairs even more complicated and unpredictable. But at least one thing is certain: As efforts to make the global economic development pie bigger are challenged, how to share the pie becomes even more important.