An editorial in the China Daily celebrates the end of "obsession" of China : one for the GDP and growth at all costs. A new leitmotiv seems to have replaced the 'welfare of the people, "a more equitable distribution of wealth, a way for the talking heads in Beijing to defuse a time bomb: the growing social unrest for inequalities that cut Chinese society. The Dragon has thus decided to declare war on poverty, said he was ready to promote "education, health, social security and the creation of new jobs" and, in the words of the Minister of Finance Xie Xuren, to spend two thirds of the central state budget to achieve the objective. Premier Wen Jiabao has also shown the maturity that the procedure is given: ten years. "We will intensify our efforts against poverty through aid and development projects," he assured Wen.
The State Council, announced the then prime minister, is preparing draft a new plan for the period 2011-2020 in which the poverty of China will be "significantly increased" over the current year, 1196 yuan (about 130 euro, or approximately 50 cents according to international standards of evaluation ). How do you remember "AgiChina 24", according to United Nations standards, which set the poverty line to below a dollar per head per day, in China there are still 150 million poor people. The ads,
facts yesterday, across the board: Beijing plans to allocate two-thirds of the budget (5.436 trillion yuan, 827.6 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 12.5 percent compared to that of 'last year) to hospitals, schools, jobs. The government will give "high priority to improving the lives of people in five years to 2015." Poverty - despite the tumultuous economic growth that China has experienced in recent years - is an ancient evil that has long plagued the country. A recent World Bank report captures the titanic effort made to resize: between 1981 and 2004 the proportion of the population living below the poverty line fell from 65% to 10%, and the absolute number of poor dropped from 652 to 135 million , down more than half a billion people.
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