China ends absolute poverty, a signature achievement for President Xi Jinping | Asian Insider EP51

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China marked a milestone in its anti-poverty efforts this week, removing its last remaining counties from a list of poor regions. ST's China correspondent Danson Cheong and University of Göttingen's Dr Yu Xiaohua explore its implications on Asian Insider.

0:00 - Introduction
1:37 - Poverty is a cancer on society: Prof Xiaohua Yu
4:25 - ‘You can’t sit on the floor, you must sit on the chair’ - villagers have to make cultural adjustments
8:49 - Conservation and development are always contradictory: Prof Xiaohua Yu
10:16 - Xi Jinping has become a very visible face of China’s anti-poverty campaign: ST’s Danson Cheong
13:25 - China’s next challenge is to solve relative poverty and make society more harmonious: Prof Xiaohua Yu

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Have ST verified this piece of news, independently??

MrMichael
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Other governments esp from usa and India should learn from China to eliminate abject poverty, which should the task of every able government

matt