Reason #3. Poverty in China accounts for a major share of world poverty. In 1978, based on the World Bank's definition of extreme poverty as living on $1 a day or less after purchasing-power ...

Within the past two decades, the number of poor people in China declined from 250 million to 2.61 million in 2004, with more than 1 billion people living a comfortable life. The human rights ...

In the country’s vast rural regions, officials armed with poverty relapse dossiers are struggling to track and help the vulnerable avoid destitution. China salesman sleeps in car to save money ...

Not everyone has benefited from economic change in China. Today there is a very small percentage of rich people and a growing number of people who consider themselves well off. The number of ...

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 ...

Chinese and US law experts met in Beijing to discuss the development of legal aid - free legal help for poor people - in China and the contribution of foreign assistance. "We have drawn many good ...

A Chinese state media report about rural men struggling to afford exorbitant dowries has triggered backlash online from ...

It’s a success story that highlights how even people in the most far-flung communities are being lifted out of poverty by technology—particularly artificial intelligence, or AI. Since China ...