China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty since 1978. The nation is aiming to eliminate poverty by 2020, according to the latest five-year plan, which targets 70 million remaining poor.

Yet as China's economy started growing in the late 1970s, and wealth became more and more concentrated in urban areas, poverty and agriculture became symbols of an impoverished, out-of-touch China ...

But China exhibits another paradox that the West often overlooks: It is simultaneously a great economic power and a poor country. In 2005 its annual per capita GDP was $1,400, one-thirtieth that ...

China's record over the last quarter century in reducing extreme poverty has been remarkable Between 1981 and 2004, the fraction of the population consuming less than a dollar-a-day fell from 65% to ...

Xihaigu, one of China's poorest areas located in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, saw the last impoverished county shake off poverty, local authorities said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping reached a major milestone this week in his five-year long fight to end absolute poverty across the country – but it doesn’t appear that he’s celebrating yet.

More and more farm produce from impoverished regions are getting on the dining tables of the Chinese, paving a road for many households to leave poverty. Wednesday, June 25, 2025 News ...

Shoddy construction and poor planning contributed to the toll from China's devastating earthquake, engineers studying the disaster for the government said Thursday.