CHINA TACKLES “relative poverty” after eradicating “extreme rural poverty”

Despite the negative impact of COVID-19, the government of China announced in 2020 that it had eradicated “extreme rural poverty” by lifting 800 million out of it.In 1981, 97% of China’s rural population lived in extreme poverty with an income below $1.90/day, as per 2011 Purchasing Power Parity. By 2020, this had dropped dramatically to being below 1%, with official claims of near-zero extreme poverty by 2021.