Xi Jinping declares "complete victory" against poverty in Chinese countryside
Xi Jinping.
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A few days before the meeting of Communist Party delegates in Beijing, the Chinese president called this success a “miracle”.
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From our correspondent in Beijing
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téphane Lagarde
Poverty is no more beautiful in the southern province of Guangxi than in Dongbei in northeastern China.
And for Chinese leaders, the goal of eradicating absolute poverty was therefore achieved last year across the country.
Why last year?
Because that accomplishment was to come before the party's hundredth anniversary this summer, in July.
"
Complete victory
"
According to the World Bank, more than 800 million Chinese have come out of poverty since the opening of the economy at the end of the 70s. A “
complete victory
” hailed during a ceremony with great pomp at the Grand Palais du Peuple by Xi Jinping who had made it one of his priorities, with the fight against corruption: "
Today, we can announce that thanks to the common efforts of the people and the party
[...]
our country has won a victory comprehensive approach in the fight against poverty.
[...]
Nearly 100 million rural people, 128,000 villages of 832 counties have come out of extreme poverty.
[...]
It is about a human miracle which History will remember.
"A"
miracle
"that"
no other country
"has been able to accomplish in"
such a short time
"specified the Chinese number one, a way of demonstrating the supposed superiority of a model that can be exported to the rest of humanity.
End of "
extreme poverty
"
The terms being important, in the Chinese discourse it is about the end of "
extreme poverty
", the threshold of which is set in China at 4,000 yuan per year (a little over 500 euros per year), that is to say a level lower than the recommendations of the World Bank which considers as poor, the inhabitants of intermediate countries living on less than 5.50 euros per day.
This still to be done allows the diplomacy of the world's second largest economy to continue to claim a leadership role from developing countries.
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