{"id":5164,"date":"2020-06-30T11:13:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T11:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/?p=5164"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:07:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T10:07:53","slug":"has-china-won-the-war-on-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/has-china-won-the-war-on-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Has China won the war on poverty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Beijing aims to eradicate rural poverty this year \u2013 but challenges lie ahead, writes Charlotte Middlehurst\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When four siblings, aged between six and fourteen years old, committed joint suicide by drinking fertiliser in the village of Cizhou, south China, in 2015, the nation was horrified.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a note, the eldest boy wrote that he had \u201cdreamed of death,\u201d an end to the years of suffering and neglect they had endured. The children came to symbolise the \u201cleft behind generation,\u201d the young who live alone in rural areas abandoned by their parents who have migrated to cities in search of work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That year, President Xi Jinping pledged to eradicate rural poverty in China by 2020. Five years on and the leadership has successfully lifted <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/m.economictimes.com\/news\/international\/business\/china-lifts-over-68-million-people-out-of-poverty-in-5-years-report\/articleshow\/62863326.cms\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">more than 70 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> out of economic hardship, according to official statistics. However, a great number still remain locked in a struggle to survive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This month marks the halfway point of the 2020 deadline. It arrives at a crucial moment as the country begins to emerge from the coronavirus and months of economic deep freeze. But even as China looks set to avoid a technical recession, with GDP growth for the year up to 1.8 percent &#8211; the gap between rich and poor in society remains one of the highest in the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last month, Premier Li Keqiang made a statement that shocked many. Speaking at the 13th National People&#8217;s Congress, he revealed that 600 million people are living on less than 1,000 yuan (\u00a3115) a month, barely enough to afford to rent a room in a medium-sized city. Hardest hit is the countryside, where 40 percent of the population still live.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The World Bank said China has the fastest rate of poverty reduction ever recorded in human history<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Internationally, China has been praised for its poverty reforms. The World Bank has lauded the \u201cphenomenal success\u201d in achieving \u201cthe fastest rate of poverty reduction ever recorded in human history\u201d over the past 40 years. In 2018, Jim Yong Kim, the bank\u2019s president, said <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beijing\u2019s model \u201coffers a new option for other countries and nations who want to speed up their development while preserving their independence; and it offers Chinese wisdom and a Chinese approach to solving the problems facing mankind.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, President Xi himself has declared the war \u201cbasically done.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, some experts say declarations of victory could be premature and politically motivated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cChina will most probably meet the target, as it is a political mission set by Xi Jinping and that being the case, everything will be done to make this happen, at least formally anyway,\u201d says <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">professor Steve Tsang, director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soas.ac.uk\/china-institute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SOAS China Institute<\/a> in London.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5166\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5166\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5166\" src=\"http:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/shutterstock_162595868.jpg\" alt=\"Guizhou mother and child\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/shutterstock_162595868.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/shutterstock_162595868-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/shutterstock_162595868-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/shutterstock_162595868-585x390.jpg 585w, https:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/shutterstock_162595868-263x175.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5166\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the 13th National People&#8217;s Congress, Premier Li Keqiang said that 600 million people were still living on less than 1,000 yuan (\u00a3115) a month<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLet\u2019s not forget that \u2018poverty\u2019 is a relative thing, and the idea of eliminating it is a political thing. Not formally meeting the target will be seen as a failure of Xi Jinping, hence it will not be allowed to happen as long as Xi is in power.\u00a0 But it does not mean poverty, as is normally understood, will be eliminated. Even the wealthy socialist countries in Europe do not claim to have eliminated poverty,\u201d says Tsang.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lack of a universal definition of poverty makes assessing progress difficult. China\u2019s targets define poverty as rural and income-based. Since 2011, the line has been 2,300 RMB per person, per year (based on 2010 prices), according to professor Qin Gao, founding director of <a href=\"https:\/\/socialwork.columbia.edu\/faculty-research\/research-centers-programs\/china-center-for-social-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Columbia University&#8217;s China Center for Social Policy.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each year, the line is adjusted according to the Consumer Price Index. Currently, it stands at around 4,000 RMB (\u00a3460).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Critics of China\u2019s poverty strategy accuse the government of setting an artificially low threshold that is easier to meet. But Professor Gao says this is not true: \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The World Bank\u2019s line at\u00a0 US $1.9 per person per day [set according to 2011 purchasing power parity], once adjusted, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is about 2,800RMB \u2013 about 200 RMB lower than China\u2019s 3,000RMB (based\u00a0 on <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2018 prices<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, some scholars argue that China should adopt a \u201crelative\u201d measure as used by most OECD countries, including the UK. This takes the median income level and is better at capturing income inequality. Instead, China, like the US, uses a hard-set income threshold, or \u201cabsolute\u201d measure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Professor Gao says that one of the biggest barriers to sustainable poverty relief is dwindling social mobility. \u201cIn rural populations, there is much less upward mobility than in the cities. To address poverty you need to lift people up to higher living standards but, more importantly, to opportunities,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wu Alfred Muluan, a scholar of <a href=\"http:\/\/focus.cbbc.org\/welfare-reform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">welfare policy<\/a> in modern China at the National University of Singapore, agrees that building long-term capacity in individual communities is more effective than offering hand-outs. He says that while Beijing has made great strides in poverty alleviation, its distinct top-down approach could present future challenges.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMany people who were not poor in the past now face financial difficulties,\u201d says Prof Wu. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn each province, resources are a lot more concentrated. For example, in capital cities and Tier 1 cities, there are increasing resources. The general strategy is to push villagers to urban areas, from third-tier cities to second, from second to first, and so on&#8230;But at the same time, first-tier cities are asking low-end people to leave because they feel they cannot house these populations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another controversial top-down method has been to migrate entire communities thousands of miles to richer provinces, for example from Gansu in the northwest, to Zhejiang and Fujian in the east.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt will remain a great challenge in the future as it\u2019s not certain they can be integrated,\u201d says Wu. \u201cWhat is more important is for these communities to cultivate their own capacity, cultivate their own economics, and cultivate their own culture.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing aims to eradicate rural poverty this year \u2013 but challenges lie ahead, writes Charlotte Middlehurst\u00a0 When four siblings, aged between six and fourteen years old, committed joint suicide by drinking fertiliser in the village of Cizhou, south China, in 2015, the nation was horrified.\u00a0 In a note, the eldest boy wrote that he had \u201cdreamed of death,\u201d an end to the years of suffering and neglect they had endured.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":5167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[130,132,128],"tags":[2427,1992,282,268],"class_list":["post-5164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthcare","category-news","category-services","tag-paywall","tag-poverty","tag-society","tag-welfare"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Has China won the war on poverty? 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