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How China Defeated Poverty

China's poverty alleviation program, launched in 2014, involved massive human and financial resources, with over 3 million party secretaries and residents dispatched to carry out targeted poverty alleviation and ¥14 trillion spent in total. The poverty alleviation initiative was motivated by both pragmatic considerations and a vision of government, which emphasizes the importance of public trust and confidence in the system.

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  • It didn’t matter to Western commentators that the vast majority of affected people (my in-laws included) were happy to leave their small, toilet-free dwellings with communal kitchens in favor of apartments with modern amenities. The focus was on the small minority that wasn’t.

    Turn out that freedom from toilet is essential human freedom in the west. Or, as the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan noticed in XVII century: "Europeans maybe could become great men, if only they washed their bottoms".

    Also Poland fact: interwar prime minister Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski ordered building outhouses and latrines in Polish villages (the hygiene state of rural Poland was so horrible back then, that they mostly didn't had even those) and ever since then the outhouse is known in Poland as "Sławojka".

  • "Many of them weren’t used to the harsh realities of rural life in China’s poorer areas and some fell ill as a result. China’s State Council Information Office reported that more than 1,800 party members and officials lost their lives in the fight against poverty." Fucking heroes bro!

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