Internet can help eliminate stubborn, intractable poverty

WITH MORE AND MORE impoverished citizens getting access to internet, and many rural students receiving quality education via the internet, the internet has become a key part of the country's poverty alleviation efforts. Beijing Daily comments:

The Cyberspace Administration of China and the China Foundation of Internet Societies have jointly issued a list of internet poverty alleviation typical cases in 2019. It includes the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation's poverty alleviation health insurance for poor families, Alibaba's village livestreaming project that aims to help the farmers use livestreaming to sell their agricultural products and the China Internet Development Foundation's Chinese-Tibetan bilingual mobile phone donation project.

These typical internet poverty alleviation projects are of great significance to China's poverty alleviation work nowadays. According to the central government's plan, by 2020 all the impoverished population in China will be rid of poverty according to the existing poverty standard. Those people that have still not cast off poverty are the most extremely impoverished population that live in poverty-stricken areas with poor natural and economic conditions. They are the hardest challenge for poverty alleviation work.