Can Cows Solve Poverty in China? China is known for massive infrastructure projects, rapid urbanization, and economic ...

China's elderly are another group facing widespread poverty. The average Chinese pension is a meager $24 per month, with many rural and migrant retirees receiving far less or nothing at all.

Attendees applaud during a ceremony to mark the official end of extreme poverty in China held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021.

Beijing says it has met its goal of wiping out extreme poverty in China by the end of 2020. The top-down effort has disrupted untold individual lives.

Despite China’s stellar improvements, the data found that many across the globe still live in extreme poverty, which Gallup classifies as those living on US$ 1.25 a day or less.

Chinese President Xi Jinping reached a major milestone this week in his five-year long fight to end absolute poverty across the country – but it doesn’t appear that he’s celebrating yet.

In China, poverty alleviation, health care and social security are proof of the country's progress in human rights." It's a point that's hard to argue with, ...

China's story is proof that developing countries can eradicate poverty through perseverance and sustained efforts. If China can make it, other developing countries can make it too.

The most typical example is China’s poverty alleviation cause, which has lifted more than 800 million people out of poverty and made great contributions to the world’s poverty reduction cause.

Poverty alleviation is a medal the party flaunts to claim its legitimacy. But despite China’s rise as an economic power, it has a drastically inadequate social safety net, and the government is ...

For starters, when China declared victory in its war on poverty, some media argued that it was because the country’s poverty line was lower than the World Bank’s $1.90 a day.