With strenuous and unified efforts, China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty, and has met ahead of schedule the poverty reduction target of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...

Local officials once helped to drive China’s economic growth. In the 2000s they fiercely competed to crank up GDP, scrambling to attract investment to provinces, cities and villages. But when Xi ...

A new plan to boost rural revitalization in China outlines measures to develop agricultual sectors and improve livelihoods of rural residents.

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 ...

Since China began to open up and reform its economy in 1978, GDP growth has averaged over 9 percent a year, and more than 800 million people have lifted themselves out of poverty. There have also been ...

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 ...

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.

The China Data Access Project (CDAP) promotes access to microdata from China by providing the names, basic description and known usage of all large sample microdata that have been used in existing ...