STORY: Discover China's poverty alleviation achievements through numbers
SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 24, 2024
DATELINE: Nov. 24, 2024
LENGTH: 00:00:34
LOCATION: Beijing
CATEGORY: ECONOMY/SOCIETY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of rural areas in China
2. various of public sanitary toilets in Shanxi, China
3. various of residents using tap water in Xinjiang

STORYLINE:

Over around 40 years, China lifted nearly 800 million of its people out of poverty, accounting for more than 75 percent of global poverty reduction in the same period.

In 2021, China declared a "complete victory" in eradicating absolute poverty. China has lifted 800 million people out of absolute poverty, and met the poverty reduction target of the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ahead of schedule.

Through continuous efforts, the final 98.99 million impoverished rural residents in China had all been lifted out of poverty, and all 832 impoverished counties and 128,000 villages had been removed from the poverty list by the end of 2020.

China has made coordinated progress in urban and rural development since 2021. In that time, it has begun renovating about 195,000 old urban residential communities, and approximately 210,000 kilometers of old gas pipelines have been renovated in urban areas.

The aggregate length of China's rural roads was 4.6 million kilometers by the end of 2023. Tap water coverage in China's rural areas had reached 90 percent by the end of last year, and about 75 percent of China's rural households had access to sanitary toilets.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Beijing.
(XHTV)