China Reportedly Lifts 100 Million Out of Poverty
Last Friday China celebrated lifting 100 million citizens out of poverty with a celebratory speech and event in Beijing. President Xi Jinping credits the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party as well as the socialist system of government as instrumental to the poverty eradication. A new National Rural Revitalisation Bureau was set up despite progress over the next 5 years remaining unknown. We were earlier joined by Associate Professor Salvatore Babones from Sydney University