China deserves recognition for lifting more people out of poverty than any nation in history. That is a profound achievement.

SANBAIHU VILLAGE, China -- The China that Wang Huazhong glimpses on television is in the midst of an amazing transformation. In cities he has never visited, skyscrapers tower over highways choked with ...

At dawn, the village of Lizu in Yiwu, East China's Zhejiang Province, is often awakened by three sounds: the hissing of coffee machines, the crackle of packing tape sealing parcels, and the cheerful ...

A randomized controlled trial by the ADB, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Peking University found that microfinance ...

As a global problem, poverty poses a severe threat to all humanity. The ideal of reducing and eradicating poverty is rightly put in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Top on the ...

At the end of last year, China made an audacious announcement. They said they had eliminated all poverty. The government said they achieved this by asking companies to move factories inland into ...

Two years ago, as she walked through a hospital hallway in handcuffs and shackles to get tested for COVID-19, Sun Junli felt ashamed and defeated. At 45, she had come a long way. The poor village girl ...

In a village near the ancient Silk Road town of Yarkand, on the edge of the Taklamakan desert in the far-western region of Xinjiang, the gongzuodui has been busy. The term means “work team”. In ...

The Chinese model offers a powerful counter-narrative: effectiveness and results trump ideological purity. Africans are ...

As China commemorates the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic, it does so with a profound sense of historical reckoning. From a nation once mired in poverty, rural backwardness, ...

Two pairs of newlyweds have a Miao ethnic wedding in Shibadong village, Hunan province. Such celebrations have drawn tourists from all over China. [Photo/Xinhua] Yang Zhengbang, a 41-year-old villager ...