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By Asit K. Biswas/Cecilia Tortajada | China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-12 07:56 Share CLOSE Abuluoha village, China s last village without a road, is connected to the outside world with its new road in Butuo county, Sichuan province as seen in June, 2020. [Photo/XINHUA]
Within a span of 40 years, China has lifted about 800 million people out of absolute poverty and become the second-largest economy in the world. In 1980 China s per capita GDP was $194.80－10 percent of Brazil ($1,947.28) and 73 percent of India ($266.58). But thanks to years of good economic management and rapid growth, its per capita GDP increased by more than 58 times to $10,216,6 in 2019－nearly 5.45 times of India ($2,099.60) and 1.31 times of Brazil ($8,717.20), according to World Bank data.
Global Compact and GSB [Growing Sustainable Business] Initiative Launched in Kenya [in News & Events section of Global Compact site] More than 50 representatives assembled in the day-long meeting to discuss the role of the business community in delivering the UN Millennium Development Goals.Tetra Pak and Standard Chartered, who have already signed the Compact at HQ level, reaffirmed their companyâs commitment locally. Seven other companies joined the Global Compact for the first time: Mabati Rolling Mills [part of Comcraft Group], Safaricom, Eastern Produce, Vestergaard Frandsen, CIMBRIA, Davis & Shirtliff and Old Mutual Kenya.Three companies, SC Johnson, Tetra Pak and Grameen Technology Center introduced their pro-poor business investment ideas.
Shristi Kafle
March 13, 2021
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The year 2020 was the worst year for countries across the world owing to the Covid-19 pandemic and millions of deaths. Despite this, the year turned into a historic one for China, as it won the battle against absolute poverty.
On February 25, 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced China secured a complete victory in its fight against poverty, with the final 98.99 million impoverished rural residents living under the current poverty line lifted up. While addressing a grand gathering to mark the nation’s poverty alleviation accomplishments, he shared that the drive included all 832 impoverished counties and 128,000 villages removed from the poverty list.
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