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- Poverty-stricken counties see online retail sales rise 26%
- Online retail sales, an important force in the fight against poverty, jumped 26 percent year on year to total 301.45 billion yuan (about 46.49 billion U.S. dollars) across China's 832 national-level poverty-stricken counties last year, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said on Thursday.
- Xi inspects Guizhou ahead of Chinese New Year
- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Wednesday inspected southwest China's Guizhou Province ahead of the Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year.
- Rural Xinjiang residents enjoy steady income growth
- Rural residents of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region enjoyed steady income growth in 2020 as the region's anti-poverty campaign bore fruit, official data showed on Wednesday.
- 6 more Chinese cities join 1-trillion-yuan GDP club
- Six more Chinese cities stepped into the 1-trillion-yuan GDP club in 2020, local governments said.
- Vice premier urges continued efforts on poverty alleviation
- Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua on Tuesday called for continued efforts on poverty alleviation work and improving the livelihood of residents who have shaken off poverty.
- Yunnan lifts 442,200 people out of poverty in 2020
- Southwest China's Yunnan Province lifted the remaining 442,200 impoverished people out of poverty in 2020, according to the ongoing annual session of the provincial people's congress.
- Hunan lifts 4.78 million out of poverty over past 5 years
- Around 4.78 million people were lifted out of poverty in central China's Hunan Province over the past five years, according to the province's latest government work report.
- Per capita disposable income doubles from 2010 level
- China's per capita disposable income reached 32,189 yuan (about 4,961 U.S. dollars) in 2020, more than double the level in 2010, official data showed Tuesday.
- Tibet sees increasing road mileage, connectivity
- The road network in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region now stretches over 117,000 km, up 50 percent from the end of 2015, as the region continues to see improving connectivity.
- Tibet's GDP grows 7.8% in 2020
- The gross domestic product (GDP) of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region grew 7.8 percent in 2020, said Qizhala, chairman of the regional government.
- China to boost rural vitalization through 4 key tasks
- China will focus on four key tasks to achieve rural vitalization, Liu Huanxin, vice minister of agriculture and rural affairs, told a press conference on Wednesday.
- E-commerce boosts income of Chinese farmers
- E-commerce has helped bump up the income of Chinese farmers, contributing to the country's efforts on rural vitalization, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said Wednesday.