From China Daily, via Xinhua (link):
China’s poorest people will all have enough food and clothes by 2010, the government promised yesterday.
The 23.65 million poorest people in the country will be fed and clothed thanks to a village-based poverty alleviation campaign, said Liu Jian, director of the Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, which is under the State Council .
Liu said the government will focus the coming years’ poverty-reduction efforts on people living in the poorest 148,000 villages.
