久久亚洲国产成人影院-久久亚洲国产的中文-久久亚洲国产高清-久久亚洲国产精品-亚洲图片偷拍自拍-亚洲图色视频

Roads at heart of poverty alleviation in China

By ZHAO HUANXIN in Washington | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2022-10-16 07:13
Share
Share - WeChat
Expressways have linked rural and urban areas in the country, greatly speeding up urbanization. ZHU HAIPENG/FOR CHINA DAILY

Report by World Bank, State Council outlines lessons learned from 40-year effort

It took two years of field visits and workshops for the World Bank and Chinese authorities to identify the drivers behind the country's poverty alleviation over the past 40 years. But it took Kenneth Quinn four decades to conclude that building roads paved its way to prosperity.

Earlier this year, the 189-member global lender, working with the State Council's Development Research Center, released a report entitled "Four Decades of Poverty Reduction in China: Drivers, Insights for the World, and the Way Ahead", an examination of the factors behind the historically unprecedented feat of lifting close to 800 million people out of poverty and what lies ahead.

The report concluded that China's success is derived from rapid economic growth and broad-based economic transformation that opened up opportunities and raised the incomes of the poor.

It was also founded on effective governance, which ensured the implementation of both its growth strategy and targeted poverty-reduction policies.

For Quinn, president emeritus of the World Food Prize Foundation, which is based in Iowa in the United States, China has undergone the most dramatic transformation of any country since 1978, mostly because it has eliminated extreme poverty.

Last year, the country declared that it had eradicated extreme poverty as defined by the national threshold, and that it had lifted 770 million people out of poverty since 1978, contributing to nearly three-quarters of the global reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty.

The eradication of absolute poverty in the world's most populous country in just 42 years is a "truly extraordinary" achievement, said Quinn, who is also a former US ambassador to Cambodia and who has chaired the World Food Prize Foundation since 2000. "The most essential lead element in China's poverty alleviation efforts was the construction and improvement of farm-to-market roads that were repaired and rebuilt everywhere," Quinn told China Daily.

He said that over the past four decades, he has visited the nation on multiple occasions to observe its poverty-reduction process and to interact with key participants and decision-makers.

On his first trip in October 1979, as part of a delegation of US state governors, Quinn found widespread poverty. He remembered meeting with then-Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who emphasized the importance of the two steps China had just taken: its new policy of "opening to the world" and the establishment of diplomatic relations with the US.

Quinn said that during that trip, he had the "remarkable opportunity" to travel across the country to observe the economic situation firsthand in areas such as Shanghai, Guangdong province and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. Approximately 750 million Chinese citizens were then mired in poverty, and there was no sign of the modernization that is now ubiquitous nationwide, he said.

In the 1960s, Quinn served as a rural-development adviser in the Mekong Delta. It was there that he first realized that places that lacked roads were rife with poverty, hunger and malnutrition. In China's case, impoverished areas began to recover once roads were built.

"A comparison of 1980 Chinese highway maps with those of 2020 demonstrates the clear linkage between the improvement and upgrading of rural roads and the reduction of poverty throughout the country," Quinn said.

For one thing, the upgrading of all-weather roads was the means by which new agricultural technologies, enhanced nutrition and expanded educational opportunities became available, he said.

1 2 3 Next   >>|
Top
BACK TO THE TOP
English
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
主站蜘蛛池模板: 国产成人教育视频在线观看 | 欧美在线观看a | 精品色综合 | 污全彩肉肉无遮挡彩色 | 黄色美女视频免费看 | 美女视频网站永久免费观看软件 | 一级毛片免费不卡 | 亚洲天堂2016 | 国产夫妇肉麻对白 | a久久99精品久久久久久不 | 成人精品视频网站 | 69久成人做爰视频 | 中文字幕视频免费在线观看 | 欧美成人免费午夜影视 | 老湿菠萝蜜在线看 | 男人桶女人暴爽的视频 | 中文国产成人精品久久96 | 亚洲成a人片 | 玖玖影院在线观看 | 日韩美毛片 | 亚洲综合国产一区在线 | 99久久国产免费 - 99久久国产免费 | 毛片com| 国产精品变态重口在线 | 国产农村一二三区 | 国产伦精品一区二区三区四区 | 波多野结衣一区二区三区在线观看 | 加勒比综合网 | 久久亚洲综合 | 日本三级特黄 | 日韩欧美色综合 | 国产成人综合怡春院精品 | 亚洲精品三区 | 日本波多野结衣视频 | 毛片免费观看的视频在线 | 亚洲韩精品欧美一区二区三区 | 亚洲精品国产精品国自产观看 | 国产精品久久久久久久久久98 | 91精品一区国产高清在线 | 亚洲成年人网址 | 一级毛片国产 |