In February 2021, China announced that nearly 850 million people had been lifted out of poverty since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) established the People’s Republic in 1949, and that extreme poverty had been eliminated. [1] About 100 million are said to have been brought out of poverty since 2012, coinciding with the ascent of President Xi Jinping as CCP’s general secretary—a significant milestone when the party records his legacy.
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