WS More or Less: Is China On Track to End Poverty by 2020?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
BBC
4.6 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2018
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
A key pledge of the Chinese President Xi Jinping is that China will have eradicated poverty by 2020. It’s an extraordinary claim, but the country does have a good track record in improving the wealth of its citizens; the World Bank says China has contributed more than any other country to global poverty reduction. So how does China measure poverty? And is it possible for them to make sure, over the next few years, that no one falls below their poverty line?
Photo: A woman tends to her niece amid the poor surroundings of her home's kitchen Credit: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images
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| 0:39.3 | We're your guide to the numbers all around you in the news and in life and I'm Kate Lamble. |
| 0:43.8 | Hey have you guys heard what's going on in China? |
| 0:46.8 | President Xi Jinping's new style? Yes and there's more. |
| 0:50.8 | The Shissantu. As this jaunty video explains, every five years the Chinese government produces a plan for the development of the country. The 13th five-year plan from The time has come for number 13th |
| 1:05.0 | Shiss I knew that's what it means. |
| 1:08.0 | The 13th five-year plan from 2015 |
| 1:10.0 | contained forecasts for economic output, industrial production and all that sort of thing, |
| 1:15.0 | but it also set out how they'd achieve a target to eradicate poverty in China by 2020. |
| 1:21.0 | All poverty, gone in just five years is a huge pledge and a key policy of |
| 1:27.1 | President Xi Jin Ping. Here he is speaking about it in his New Year's address. |
| 1:31.4 | After three years, we will win the final phase of the war on poverty. |
| 1:38.0 | This will be the first time in thousand years of Chinese history |
| 1:42.0 | that extreme poverty has been eliminated. |
| 1:46.0 | Let us accomplish this great cause of momentous significance for the Chinese nation and all |
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