In many places where this is discussed, some people are eager to mention that “this is ONLY for extreme poverty, there is a lot of work to do but good work China”. IMO these people really undersell the hard work required to achieve this. CPC has literally assigned people specifically for the task of poverty alleviation. This is an immense achievement and I can confidently say that very countries.on this planet can muster up the hard work and political will to do something like this.
I couldn’t even imagine a western country developing a task force to reduce and even eliminate poverty. Is the work done? No, but it’s a hell of a lot closer to done than most other places. It’s truly inspiring to see something like this, a better future will prevail!
To be clear, there is still certain traits of poverty in some provinces here and there, especially as you go west, but China basically eliminated the worst of it and they’re the 13th Five-Year Plan is supposed to tackle issues such as inequality and moderate poverty. Quite impressive, I think.
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So, the idea of this plan is to eliminate it in the next five years?
I’m not sure about any specific time frame. Here is a video showing some of the things they’ll be doing after 2020 to address relative poverty.
Xi Jinping did say that they were going to expand public ownership and government control, but I don’t know all the details.
They’ve already eliminated urban poverty, its just different regions that have had more rural poverty that have been the target of these poverty alleviation programs.
As to the inequality existing in the PRC, here’s some intro resources on that:
- The backbone of the economy is state ownership and socialist planning. 24 / 25 of the top revenue companies are state-owned and planned. 70% of the top 500 companies are State-owned. 1, 2
- Is modern day china communist? Is it staying true to communist values?
- Didn’t China go Capitalist with Deng Xiaoping? Didn’t it liberalize its economy? Is China’s drastic decrease in poverty a result of the increase in free market capitalist policies?
- Is the CPC committed to communism?
- The Long Game and Its Contradictions.
- What is socialism with Chinese characteristics (SWCC)?
- Why do Chinese billionaires keep ending up in prison? Why are many billionaires and CEOs going missing? China sentences Ex-Chairman of a major bank, guilty of embezzling ~$100M USD, to death in 2019.
- How the State runs business in China.
- 50% of the economy is in the socialist public sector and directly follows the plan (40% if you ignore the agricultural sector). 20 to 30% is inside the state capitalist sector, which is the sector partially or totally owned by domestic capitalists but run by the CPC or by local workers councils. The rest is made up of the small bourgeois ownership like in the NEP.
- China pushing forward Marxist training in colleges, attracts 1M students.
- China tells the US that it has no plans to weaken the role of its State-Owned-Enterprises, one of the US’s main demands in the trade war. “Beijing plans to make the state economy stronger, bigger, and better.”
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No probs :)
Did you mean 14th? The 13th is set to end by this year.
That’s the one.
Amerikkka will say it’s fake
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Here’s an article from the notoriously anticommunist guardian a few years back, where they’re forced to admit the success of the CPC in eliminating urban poverty.
