With the last 52 impoverished counties successively declaring victory against extreme poverty, China has achieved its goal of eliminating absolute poverty one month before its self-imposed deadline.
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.
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:
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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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.
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:
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No probs :)
Xi Jinping did say that they were going to expand public ownership and government control, but I don’t know all the details.
Did you mean 14th? The 13th is set to end by this year.
That’s the one.