This Day, That Year

Item from Oct 27, 1994, in China Daily: The central government will increase special relief funds for lifting the 80 million rural Chinese out of poverty by 2000. ... The development fund for supporting underdeveloped regions, the country's first anti-poverty fund included in the State budget since 1980, will inject 1.1 billion yuan into poor areas next year.

China has made remarkable achievements in poverty reduction in recent decades.

Since the country implemented a large-scale campaign against poverty in 1986, an average of 6.4 million people were lifted from poverty each year until 2000, while the figures were 6.7 million from 2001 to 2010, according to the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development.