Govt to let regions establish their own poverty standards
By Zhao Yinan | China Daily | Updated: 2011-08-18 08:32
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A woman puts corn on the roof of her house to dry it in Xishan, a town in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Aug 9. The town is a State-level poverty-stricken area with poor road access. Zhou Hua / Xinhua |
BEIJING - China is allowing local governments to replace the national standards for what constitutes poverty with their own in an effort to lift millions of rural residents out of the ranks of the poor in a decade, a senior official said.
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