— When Xi Jinping became China’s top leader in 2012, he inherited a mission China had striven to achieve for generations, which is eradicating absolute poverty.
— The entire system was mobilized to help the rural indigent population, with more than 250,000 teams dispatched to offer on-the-ground support and over 3 million people sent to countryside as special commissioners for poverty relief.
— “Through eight years, under the current standard, China has eradicated extreme poverty for the nearly 100 million rural people affected,” Xi said in the New Year speech that rang in 2021.
BEIJING, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) — Poverty plagued China for thousands of years. Through generations of struggle after the founding of…