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Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Feb 26, 2021 In late 2020, China declared victory over poverty, marking the end of a five-year campaign to raise rural incomes above $600 per year. In the essay “The Countryside Through A Daughter In-Law’s Eyes,” though, Huang Deng wrote movingly about the harsh realities of life outside of China’s urban areas. The poverty alleviation campaign was intended to address some of those issues, yet significant questions remain about who, exactly, accrued the benefit...

Chinese Countryside Better Off Than Ever Before, While Some Reforms Stagnate Posted by Joseph Brouwer | Jan 26, 2021 Sceptics understandably ask whether China fiddled its numbers in order to win what it calls the “battle against poverty”. There are of course still isolated cases of abject deprivation. China, however, set itself a fairly high bar. It has regularly raised the official poverty line, which, accounting for living costs, is about $2.30 a day at prices prevailing in 2011. (By comp...

The rural-urban divide But it remains large, even as more youngsters return home to the countryside N ONE OF THE universities to which Lin Meizi, a farmer’s daughter, applied was in her province of Yunnan, one of China’s poorest regions. Young people often flee to join millions of other rural migrants seeking work in booming coastal cities. Few look back. Ms Lin got her break when she was accepted to study in a big Chinese city 1,400km away, then clinched a job straight out of university. B...

Book Review: Rural Youth Key to China’s Human Capital Crisis China’s economic growth has astonished the world and vaulted it to the status of an upper-middle-income country. Now the question is whether China can progress to becoming a high-income economy. Or will it remain stuck failing to go beyond middle-income status? An important and informative new book “Invisible China: How the Urban-Rural Divide Threatens China’s Rise” by Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell, who are not just schola...