The Fight against PovertyWhat does being poor mean in China today? People who earned less than 200 yuan a year in China in 1985 were considered poor. By 2011, the standard had risen to 2,300 yuan.
Between 1978 and 2017, China helped 740 million people who lived in very poor conditions to change their lives. No other country in the world has managed to improve the living conditions of so many people over such a short period. How did China do it?
The key to reducing poverty in a country is first to find the really poor people. This is how China did I it. China found every poor person in every village.
Government officials were sent to villages to help every poor family. By the end of 2020, 255,000 teams and more than 3 million officials had been sent to poor villages to fight poverty.
Education plays an important role in the fight against poverty in China. Over the past five years, China has built or upgraded 260,000 primary and secondary schools, hired 1.7 million more teachers, and admitted 27.3 million more students. The government gave more money to poor areas to make sure that every child could attend school by 2020.
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In 2020, teams of government officials found 3 million poor people.