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's government announced it will offer a one-time cash allowance to those in extreme poverty. Earlier this week, the PBOC rolled out a slate of stimulus measures aimed at shoring up the economy.

China is rolling out a subsidy for impoverished citizens as the world's second-largest economy struggles to regain momentum.

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 ...

In the country’s vast rural regions, officials armed with poverty relapse dossiers are struggling to track and help the vulnerable avoid destitution. China salesman sleeps in car to save money ...

Not everyone has benefited from economic change in China. Today there is a very small percentage of rich people and a growing number of people who consider themselves well off. The number of ...

The decline in extreme poverty was largely fueled by the rapid advances in two regions – East Asia and the Pacific and South Asia –specifically in China, Indonesia, and India. In 60 of 83 countries ...

China's President Xi Jinping officially declared Thursday that the country has completed its “arduous task” of eradicating extreme poverty, saying 98.99 million people have been lifted out of ...

When a fellow Governing Council Member of the Marga Institute suggested that I represent our organisation at the 2nd Global ...