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China Pulls Itself Out of Poverty 100 Years into Its Revolution
Vijay Prashad and John Ross | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jul 2021

1 Jul 2021 – On 25 Feb China’s President Xi Jinping announced that his country of 1.4 billion people had pulled them out of poverty as it is defined internationally. Since 1981, 853 million Chinese have lifted themselves out of poverty thanks to large-scale interventions from the Chinese state and the Communist Party; according to the data of the World Bank, three out of four people worldwide who were lifted out of poverty live in China.

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