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 ...

In the country's vast rural regions, officials armed with poverty relapse dossiers are struggling to track and help the ...

China’s collectivist world view isn’t about undermining individuality but about emphasising interdependence. The idea could reshape global governance. China salesman sleeps in car to save ...

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 has vowed to keep its urban jobless rate around 5.5 per cent this year while striving to prevent those at the lowest economic rung of society from falling back into poverty, in an effort to ...