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China Praised For Fight On Poverty
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September 22, 2010, Wednesday
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UNITED Nations officials said yesterday that China has succeeded in drastically cutting the numbers of its poor and hungry, achieving universal primary education and reducing child mortality - key targets set by the United Nations in tackling global poverty.
World leaders are convening at a UN summit in New York this week to review a decade's worth of work on eradicating poverty. In 2000, they had gathered to establish eight key benchmarks known as the Millennium Development Goals to help the world's poorest by 2015.
United Nations Resident Coordinator in China, Renata Dessallien, said China had already achieved three of the eight goals: halving the number of people living on less than US$1 a day, achieving universal primary education and cutting child mortality by two-thirds.
"China's success in lifting millions of people out of poverty is unprecedented," Dessallien said.
The number of rural poor dropped from 85 million in 1990 to 35.9 million in 2009, a drop of 9.6 percent to 3.8 percent of the rural population, government statistics show.
World leaders are convening at a UN summit in New York this week to review a decade's worth of work on eradicating poverty. In 2000, they had gathered to establish eight key benchmarks known as the Millennium Development Goals to help the world's poorest by 2015.
United Nations Resident Coordinator in China, Renata Dessallien, said China had already achieved three of the eight goals: halving the number of people living on less than US$1 a day, achieving universal primary education and cutting child mortality by two-thirds.
"China's success in lifting millions of people out of poverty is unprecedented," Dessallien said.
The number of rural poor dropped from 85 million in 1990 to 35.9 million in 2009, a drop of 9.6 percent to 3.8 percent of the rural population, government statistics show.
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