How China Defeated Poverty - American Affairs Journal
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Who wrote that the Chinese are “the wisest and best governed people in the world”? That they perfected “morality” as well as “political economy” to such an extent that “in those fields we need to be their disciples”? Today such comments would be presumed to come from the worst kind of “China apologist”—a “shill”—at best deluded, at worst brain­washed. But the man who wrote...

China’s poverty alleviation program, launched in 2014, involved massive human and financial resources, with over 3 million party secretaries and residents dispatched to carry out targeted poverty alleviation and ¥14 trillion spent in total. The poverty alleviation initiative was motivated by both pragmatic considerations and a vision of government, which emphasizes the importance of public trust and confidence in the system.