Elimination of absolute poverty historical marker of new beginning

Feeding, clothing and sheltering 1.4 billion people is no easy job. But somehow China has managed to do it. And, in so doing, it has become the first developing country to accomplish the poverty reduction target of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — and done it 10 years ahead of schedule.

The last nine impoverished counties in Guizhou province, actually the last in the whole of China, officially shed their “national-level poor county” labels on Monday.