Modern-day China : Taking Lead In Poverty Eradication Revolution

Most cases of poverty in The People’s Republic of China today exist only in pictures and videos showing the historical evolution of the population. Some sample cases visited across the country from 16-27 November, 2019 clearly demonstrated the possibility of lifting the remaining 16 million inhabitants of the country who are still viewed as living below the poverty line. By putting in place a socialist vision that has a vision and purpose for the people, beginning with his local area of Ningde, President Xi Jinping laid the foundation for a new era for his country. Across the country, people join the Communist Party of China (CPC) not so much because they are interested in politics, but because of the visible changes that the party leadership from the grassroots to the top is making for their communities. Erecting the poverty eradication desire into a strong political will and vision, the Vice Mayor of Ningde town, Huang Guozhang, ensures that those carrying their messages to the villages and local population are militants who can create opportunities and wealth. As such, they are sure that such leaders will enhance the determination to encourage others to make prosperity happen in China.

In order to better transmit the party doctrine to the hinterlands, the development model that is intended for the people undergoes careful planning through a participative approach to ensure that projects being realised do reflect the aspirations of the population. From his days as Vice Secretary of the CPC in his Ningde town, to the post of Vice Secretary of the party in the entire Province and Governor of Fujian, President Xi Jinping has from 1990 when he was 36 years old to 2012 written the transformational stories of his locality in golden books with concrete achievements that have reverberated across China. Measures to pull the entire country into modernity are in place in all the 34 Provinces in a village-by-village and County-County basis. Fujian, for instance, still counts about 1.2 million people in some 200 villages who should be above the poverty line by the end of 2020. To meet the targ...