CNN.com - RSS Channel - HP HeroEnding poverty in 2020 was going to be Xi's crowning achievement. Coronavirus might have ruined it

This was supposed to be the year that Beijing would announce it had ended absolute poverty in China, fulfilling a key pledge of President Xi Jinping and one of the founding missions of the Chinese Communist Party.

July 02, 2020 at 08:00AM https://ift.tt/2AmzaOV was supposed to be the year that Beijing would announce it had ended absolute poverty in China, fulfilling a key pledge of President Xi Jinping and one of the founding missions of the Chinese Communist Party.