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In 2015, China’s President Xi Jinping set a deadline of 2020 to eradicate poverty in China, with 850 million Chinese taken out of extreme poverty in the past 40 years.
The chief executive should set a bold target of eradicating the long-time problem of substandard housing by 2032. What he needs is to take a whole-of-government approach to resolving the issue, as Xi Jinping did to tackle poverty.
Exchanges following the UN human rights chief’s visit to Xinjiang do little to advance the cause, particularly when there are reasons to worry elsewhere in the world.
Xi Jinping’s push for ‘common prosperity’ has merit because the current course can only threaten social, political and economic stability, even in the biggest and wealthiest countries.
- CCDI to deepen campaign targeting ‘unhealthy practices and corruption’ in rural revitalisation and seek better integrity in belt and road projects
- In this year’s work report, graft buster also says it will focus on political security and improve supervision of the regions and across departments
Xi offers upbeat assessment of the economy’s resilience, pointing to advances in various industrial projects.
Education is an important support for achieving greater science and tech self-reliance and can enhance China’s soft power, president says.
More than a dozen government agencies in China have vowed to make it easier for migrants in cities to tap into public services, such as healthcare, in a bid to boost economic activity
China’s government says it has averted a large-scale return to poverty after a year of coronavirus outbreaks and economic challenges, but the declining incomes of rural migrant workers remains a pressing issue.
Amid worries that China is heading down another planned-economy path, Hu Deping weighs in with a pro-market perspective and warning that a government-controlled rural cooperative economy must be avoided.
Constitutional revisions also call for acceleration of the ‘dual circulation’ concept.
President Xi Jinping outlined how China will keep ‘income distribution and the means of accumulating wealth well-regulated’ at the 20th party congress, triggering fresh worries among the wealthy and upper middle-class.
Senior Communist Party ideologist Han Baojiang says that a further emphasis is to be placed on the common prosperity initiative that calls for an even distribution of wealth during the 20th party congress next month.
Party congress expected to celebrate last year’s declared success in lifting lowest incomes and turn focus to 2049 goal.
Xi Jinping’s wide-ranging economic reforms have seen China expand its global influence with the Belt and Road Initiative and reorient domestic development through ‘Dual Circulation’.
President vows to peg the country’s modernisation to the principle of ‘wealth and happiness for all’.
Former Australian prime minister says China is dealing with ‘self-inflicted’ problems, including ‘poor policy choices’, and that economic growth is the Communist Party’s top challenge this year.
A year after President Xi Jinping declared an end to extreme poverty in China, the economic fallout from Beijing’s zero-Covid ambitions is taking a hefty toll on livelihoods, especially in poorer regions.
Xi Jinping’s trademark plan to reduce wealth inequality is being hampered by confusion, especially at the local level, about how best to help poor citizens and drive development.
The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has warned local authorities against over-promising on social welfare amid Beijing’s push to reduce inequality.
World Bank Group also warns that the pandemic has widened the rich-poor gap, particularly in emerging markets and developing economies such as China.
The contrasting lives of two coronavirus carriers in Beijing, outlined in newly-released epidemiological reports, have sparked heated social media discussion about inequality in China.
President Xi Jinping has been pushing for so-called common prosperity, which is aimed at narrowing China’s persistent wealth gap, but what citizens on the ground think about the outlook for the country?
