Poverty in China

Within the past year, China was the epicenter and one of the most hard hit countries in the world by the coronavirus pandemic. However, the President of China, President Xi says that China has defeated extreme poverty. This is an extremely hard task to manage, especially with the size and population of China. “President Xi made comments in a ceremony celebrating the progress on poverty reduction. He declared extreme poverty had been ended in China.“All 98.99 million people who are the poor rural population have been taken out of poverty,” he said. In 2012, Xi began a plan that has helped China go beyond the World Banks’s 2030 target for ending extreme poverty.” I believe that within the past year many countries are implementing a COVID relief plan in order to get these countries back on track. With many countries doing this, I believe that we can see the poverty rate exponentially decrease. This will be huge for the end poverty movement as many families will be receiving relief funds and get them started and hopefully keep them out of poverty. While poverty will always be an issue, we can hope to cut a huge chunk out of the poverty rate in the world. President Xi says that China has spent about $246 billion over the past 8 years in order to get to where they are today. Hopefully many other countries can follow up with relief plans like America and China.

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English, V. (2021, March 06). Has china really defeated extreme poverty? Retrieved March 11, 2021, from https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/has-china-really-defeated-extreme-poverty-/5803083.html