How China will win its war on poverty

It is one thing to make promises, but quite another to keep them. The Chinese government has promised to eradicate poverty by 2020 - the target year for China to become a "moderately prosperous" society - and the country is confident this promise will be kept.

China's economic growth has been astonishing over the past three decades, but the economy must provide for 1.3 billion people. The gap between rich and poor remains as wide in China as it does in many other countries, and the Chinese government knows it.

But there have been more than 55 million success stories in the past four years. And this drive will not stop until the day dawns when the last person living in poverty finds his or her rightful place as a citizen of a well-off society.