The number

92 million

China has identified 128,000 impoverished villages and 92 million people living in poverty, said a senior poverty alleviation official on Saturday at a seminar in Hubei province. According to Liu Yongfu, head of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, poverty has declined substantially in China, but the country still has 832 poor counties and districts. To expand the safety net for those in poverty, the national poverty level was raised from 206 yuan ($33.50) a year in 1986 to 2,300 yuan in 2011.