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Xi leads fight against poverty Xinhua | Updated: 2021-02-23 13:40 Share CLOSE BEIJING Poverty plagued China for thousands of years. Through generations of struggle after the founding of New China in 1949, the country had lifted 700 million out of penury by the end of 2012. By then, China still had nearly 100 million people living under the poverty line, one ninth of the world s total. About 100,000 villages were yet to be connected by paved roads; some 4,000 villages had no access to electricity; and 8.3 percent of the country s rural households eked out a living in ramshackle, grass-thatched mud huts. In November 2012, Xi Jinping became China s top leader, and he inherited a mission China had striven to achieve for generations, which is eradicating absolute poverty. The Communist Party of China (CPC) aimed to reach the goal by the end of 2020.

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