Category: reducepoverty

CAE academicians poverty alleviation efforts lauded

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.

Feature: Xi leads fight against poverty

Poverty plagued China for thousands of years. Through generations of struggle after the founding of New China in 1949, the country had lifted 700 million out of penury by the end of 2012.