Poverty group to grow with definition change
By Chen Jia and He Dan | China Daily | Updated: 2011-04-02 07:50
BEIJING - The number of Chinese living in poverty is expected to reach 100 million if the country decides to consider people who earn up to 1,500 yuan ($229) a year as being poor, a senior poverty alleviation official has said.
To now be deemed impoverished, a person must make less than 1,196 yuan a year.
China is expected to place an even greater emphasis on fighting poverty in 2011, said Lin Jialai, executive vice-president of the China Association of Poverty Alleviation and Development.
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