China Raises Poverty Standards, 28 Mln Rural Residents To Benefit

From Xinhua:

The Chinese government said Saturday it would expand coverage of its anti-poverty program in rural areas next year to include an additional 28.41 million residents.

Fan Xiaojian, director of the Office for Poverty Alleviation and Development under the State Council, said rural residents with an annual per capita income of less than 1067 yuan (156 U.S. dollars) would begin to be covered in the country’s poverty-relief program next year.

Currently, the program only benefited rural residents with an annual per capita income of less than 786 yuan.

China defined an annual income of less than 786 yuan as absolute poverty and an annual income of between 786 and 1067 yuan as low income.

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