Hard Work Elevates and Enriches People’s Livelihood

Minsheng Weekly Issue 19, 2019

Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China 70 years ago, the country has promulgated and implemented a series of mediumand long-term plans for alleviating poverty, evolving from relief-oriented poverty alleviation and then development-oriented poverty alleviation to targeted poverty alleviation. The Chinese government has explored a road of poverty alleviation and development in rural areas that is in line with China’s national conditions, laying a solid foundation for the building of a well-off society.

Especially since 2012, China has placed poverty alleviation as the baseline goal and the landmark target of building a well-off society, and has established the goal of lifting all the population under the current poverty line out of poverty by 2020. China has made unprecedented efforts to tackle poverty. As a result, great historic achievements have been made in addressing poverty, the number of poor people in rural areas has decreased dramatically, the living standard of the poor has improved significantly, and poverty-stricken areas have changed markedly. China’s determined efforts in poverty reduction has greatly accelerated the world’s poverty-reduction process.

Over the past 70 years, China has made great achievements from standing up and becoming rich to blossoming into a strong global power.

Over the past 70 years, China has undergone a profound evolution from isolated closure to openness and from tradition to modernity.