Poverty alleviation efforts in China.
Wiping out poverty by 2020 is among the Communist Party's top policy priorities. President Xi Jinping's government has granted massive funding to what has become China's strongest poverty-reduction campaign ever. The population below the poverty line in rural areas has fallen from 99 million in 2012 when Xi took office, to 30 million people by the end of his first term in 2017. Chinese success has attracted praise from international institutions and become a role model for developing countries such as Pakistan in their fight against poverty.
Stricter monitoring will make poverty relief work more efficient and coincidentally extend Party control over local public institutions.
Precise targeting of poor households will increase effectiveness, but may leave behind households just barely above the poverty line.
Businesses will benefit from grants and investments given for undertaking poverty relief and development work.
Rural populations resettled in urban areas may face greater precarity without farmland to fall back on.
