China plans to lift all out of poverty in six years - The Times of India: "BEIJING: China hopes to lift all its 70 million living beneath the poverty line to safety within the next six years, at an average rate of a million people a month, a cabinet official said on Monday.
Despite rapid economic growth in the last two decades, poverty remains a huge issue in China, especially in rural areas where a lack of jobs drives able-bodied adults to work elsewhere, leaving children and the elderly behind.
"We have six years to eradicate all poverty," said Hong Tianyun, deputy director of China's State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development of China, on the government's website.
About 70 million people, mostly in the countryside, live beneath China's poverty line, earning less than 2,300 yuan ($362) annually, the official Xinhua news agency reported last month, citing data from the National Bureau of Statistics. "
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