China claims to have ended extreme poverty
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Beijing, Dec 7: China has recently declared victory in its 8 years drive to eradicate extreme poverty. In 2015, China had set a deadline of 2020 to eradicate poverty in China.
In 2012, the Chinese leadership had sought to achieve a ‘moderately prosperous’ society by focusing on its rural areas. It had also maintained a ‘national list of impoverished counties’.
The campaign involved massive mobilization of state resources and relocation of people from remote villages to new settlements closer to urban centres. Cash handouts for the elderly and disabled and job finding schemes for the unemployed are also part of the campaign.
After that, in 2015, when the govt set the deadline of 2020 to completely eradicate poverty, another campaign was implemented, which they called the 'anti-poverty campaign'. In order to achieve the goal, the govt developed local industries, education, healthcare. This campaign mainly opposed corruption and thereby relived poverty.
The UN Millennium Goals Report (2015) shows that Chinese citizens had major role in eradicating poverty. Beijing’s policies greatly contributed in meeting the UN millennium goal to reduce half of extreme poverty globally.
However, it is yet another thing that the Chinese Govt claims to have achieved with reports created mainly by their authoritative govt, which can never be trusted with totally. Since in case of China, there's always room for reinvestigation of facts.