China delists all remaining poverty-stricken counties
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Re: China delists all remaining poverty-stricken counties
#2They define 4,000-yuan (about $609) as the national poverty line. Significant milestone.
The average annual net income of impoverished people in these nine counties has risen to 11,487 yuan (about $1,740)
Re: China delists all remaining poverty-stricken counties
#3They define 4,000-yuan (about $609) as the national poverty line. Significant milestone. The average annual net income of impoverished people in these nine counties has risen to 11,487 yuan (about $1,740)
Presumably $1740 per annum in rural China is enough to meet basic needs.
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#4And they also supposedly only have 93k confirmed COVID cases. Not sure I believe this.
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#5>moderately prosperous society in all respects.
>satisfaction rate among locals was over 99 percent
>About 1.88 million people living in poor mountainous areas have been relocated to urban areas
>Various supporting measures have been taken to ensure that at least one person on average in each relocated household gets employed.
Reads like an Onion article.
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#6>moderately prosperous society in all respects. >satisfaction rate among locals was over 99 percent >About 1.88 million people living in poor mountainous areas have been relocated to urban areas >Various supporting measures have been taken to ensure that at least one person on average in each relocated household gets employed. Reads like an Onion article.
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#70% poverty and 99% satisfaction? Those sound like totally real stats.
These statistics are mostly about how they define "poverty": $609 per year in this case.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/29/bill-g...
Re: China delists all remaining poverty-stricken counties
#8What I love about Hacker News is that almost none of its readers are dumb enough to believe this.
Re: China delists all remaining poverty-stricken counties
#9What I love about Hacker News is that almost none of its readers are dumb enough to believe this.
Cite a reason why you'd think it's dumb.
Denying that China has so far been very successful is a fallacy. Compare China to India, China was behind. Now it has leapfrogged ahead.
It is yet to be seen if China can reach the developed country status, which would require dethroning the dollar as the world reserve currency. However, just because China has been successful in the past doesn't mean it will be able to achieve this feat.
Re: China delists all remaining poverty-stricken counties
#10>moderately prosperous society in all respects. >satisfaction rate among locals was over 99 percent >About 1.88 million people living in poor mountainous areas have been relocated to urban areas >Various supporting measures have been taken to ensure that at least one person on average in each relocated household gets employed. Reads like an Onion article.
What's so funny about it?
I've been to rural China, and it tracks with the improvements I saw. But maybe that's anecdotal, do you have more insight on the matter?