Chinese President Xi Jinping says his country has reached the ambitious goal set when he assumed office in 2012 of lifting 100 million people out of poverty. But what has China actually achieved?

But some experts have questioned the way this has been measured. In China, extreme poverty is defined as earning less than $620 (£440) a year. In his speech on Thursday, Mr Xi said the "arduous ...

China’s wildlife trade, believed to be the origin of the new coronavirus, was encouraged as a way to lift rural workers out of poverty. The announcement of $60 billion in financing for Africa ...

Click the photo and watch the video. * Over the past decades, China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty, achieving the poverty reduction goals of the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...

This metaphor resonated with many developing countries. Over the past decades, China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty, achieving the poverty reduction goals of the UN's 2030 Agenda for ...

Chart 2 illustrates this point by plotting ... to influences far removed from international trade. In China, for example, domestic liberalization, restrictions on internal migration, and agricultural ...

China claimed last year it had met its target of lifting all its people out of extreme poverty. President Xi Jinping heralded it as a “major victory” that the Chinese Communist Party had ...

China has worked hard to reduce the number of citizens who live in poverty. The number of people in China who earn less than $1.90 (£1.25) per day, which is the line the World Bank uses to ...

China is more tightly controlling how farmland can be used in an attempt to bolster food security – but it risks undoing the progress made in alleviating rural poverty. Xi is promoting a new ...