National March 8, 2021 Chinese President Xi Jinping had promised his nation to eradicate absolute poverty in China by 2021, the 100th Birthday of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Prima facie, it may have seemed a tall claim. A nation that was born destitute in 1949, ravaged by the wars against Japanese imperialism, the Second World War and 1945 onwards fighting against the Kuomintang, who had the support of the Occident, which was afraid of the rise of Communism. The Kuomintang were defeated and driven out but before they left, they plundered the national treasury and torched the crops. To add insult to injury, the world turned its back upon the People’s Republic of China, treating it as a pariah, sans diplomatic ties, recognition and prohibiting even humanitarian agencies from providing much needed support. Left to fend for themselves, the Chinese suffered the worst famine in recorded history and it is a remarkable phenomenon that the CPC pulled its teeming millions, out of the morass.