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How Did Poverty Reduction in China Contribute to the World? Viewing from the Implementation of the UN MDGs and SDGs

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  • Liangliang GAO

    (Research Office for Land Economy and Human Resources, Rural Development Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, No. 5, Jianguomennei Avenue, Beijing 100732, China)

  • Cuiping MA

    (Rural Development Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, No. 5, Jianguomennei Avenue, Beijing 100732, China)

  • Junxia ZENG

    (Rural Development Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, No. 5, Jianguomennei Avenue, Beijing 100732, China)

  • Bin WANG

    (Rural Development Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, No. 5, Jianguomennei Avenue, Beijing 100732, China)

  • Yue LI

    (Agricultural Information Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 12, Zhongguancun South Avenue, Beijing 100081, China)

Abstract

Countries all over the world are highly concerned about poverty. Both the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations set ending poverty and hunger as their top priority. Whether in its own modernization drive or in the implementation of the United Nations’ MDGs and SDGs, the Chinese Government has always attached great importance to poverty issues, and actively explored measures to reduce poverty. This paper is designed to use relevant statistics to sum up China’s achievements and experience in implementing the MDGs so as to provide a policy basis for poverty reduction in China and beyond. This paper discovers that China’s achievements in poverty reduction involve four aspects: Eliminating hunger ahead of schedule, improving people’s nutritional status, enhancing food security and laying a solid foundation for sustainable agricultural development; China’s experience in poverty reduction includes the following: the government had paid high attention; economic development had served as the key to solve all problems; the development had been guided by planning and guaranteed by policies and regulations; the market mechanism had played its due role; emphasis had been placed on the pilot projects and step-by-step promotion strategy, as well as on development cooperation and experience exchanges. The Chinese Government had formulated specific plans to achieve the poverty reduction targets set in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Besides, the Rural Revitalization Strategy proposed by the Chinese Government in 2017 has become the essential strategy to solve the poverty-related issues in China’s development.

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  • Liangliang GAO & Cuiping MA & Junxia ZENG & Bin WANG & Yue LI, 2019. "How Did Poverty Reduction in China Contribute to the World? Viewing from the Implementation of the UN MDGs and SDGs," Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies (CJUES), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 7(01), pages 1-29, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:cjuesx:v:07:y:2019:i:01:n:s2345748119400074
    DOI: 10.1142/S2345748119400074
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    1. Jinsong Zhang & Yiding Wang, 2023. "The Construction of the Landscape- and Village-Integrated Green Governance System Based on the Entropy Method: A Study from China," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 13(9), pages 1-17, September.
    2. Linqing Fang & Zhihao Liu & Caiyu Jin, 2023. "How Does the Integration of Cultural Tourism Industry Affect Rural Revitalization? The Mediating Effect of New Urbanization," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(14), pages 1-22, July.

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