Innovative measures needed to overcome the existing constraints on environmentally sustainable poverty relief efforts
Green development underpins China’s poverty relief endeavors and the sustainable development of rural areas. Since the launch of reform and opening-up in the late 1970s, China has lifted 770 million people out of poverty, accounting for over 70 percent of the world’s total.
China is the first developing country to achieve the poverty relief target of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
However, green poverty relief measures still face constraints from the macroeconomic environment, ecological resources, and the pressure to find a balance between the economy and environmental…