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The Evolution of China's Anti-Poverty Strategies - Cases of 20 Chinese Changing Lives (Paperback, 1st ed. 2023)
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The Evolution of China's Anti-Poverty Strategies - Cases of 20 Chinese Changing Lives (Paperback, 1st ed. 2023)
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This open access book presents the findings of the author's 3
decades of studying China's evolving anti-poverty strategies. It
argues that much of the billions that nations spend yearly on
economic aid is used inefficiently or to treat the symptoms but not
the root causes of poverty. China, however, has evolved an
effective sustainable alternative by providing the means for
self-reliance to not only relieve economic poverty but also poverty
of spirit. As a result, the success of China's historic war on
poverty has been due not only to top-down visionary leadership but
also to the bottom-up initiatives of an empowered populace
unswervingly united in ending poverty. From 1993 to 2019, the
author drove over 200,000 km around China and interviewed hundreds
of people from all walks of life as he explored the evolution of
China's anti-poverty strategies from simplistic aid and
redistribution, which often engendered dependency and poverty of
spirit. Over time, the philosophy shifted to empowerment by
fostering self-reliance-or as Chinese put it, "blood production
rather than blood transfusion." The primary method of empowerment
was to provide modern infrastructure, "Roads first, then riches,"
so rural dwellers in remote Inner Mongolia or the Himalayan heights
of Tibet had the same access to markets, jobs and internet for
e-commerce as their urban counterparts. People who seized the
opportunities and prospered first then used their newfound wealth
and experience to help others. The stories in this book include a
Tibetan entrepreneur whose family was impoverished in spite of 300
years of service to the Panchen Lama, or the farm girl with 4 years
of education who now has several international schools, a
biotechnology company and poverty alleviation projects across
China, or the photographer who walked 40,000 km through deserts to
chronicle the threat of desertification. Their tales underscore how
diverse people across China helped make possible China's success in
alleviating absolute poverty and why Chinese are now confident in
achieving a "moderately prosperous society."
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