The last nine impoverished counties in China’s southwestern province of Guizhou were removed from the country’s poverty list on Monday. The nation has thus ended absolute poverty one month before its self-imposed deadline.
According to CGTN, since last week authorities in the remaining provinces and autonomous regions with poverty-stricken counties successively declared their localities absolutely poverty-free, following extensive inspections. Those include Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Yunnan Province, Sichuan Province and Gansu Province. Guizhou was the final provincial-level area to declare victory over absolute poverty.
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