An average of 10 million people in China were lifted out of poverty every year from 2012 to 2018
CRI,December 08, 2019 Adjust font size:
The Communist Party of China and China’s government have led tireless efforts to shake off poverty since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949.
After years of hard work, the number of impoverished people (people living below the current poverty line) dropped from 770 million in 1978 to 16.6 million in 2018, and the poverty rate dropped from 97.5 percent to 1.7 percent.
Every year from 2012 to 2018, an average of 10 million people in China were lifted out of poverty.
