Zigani Saturnin (L), a student from Burkina Faso, checks crop growth in the field at an agricultural experimental base in Quzhou County, north China's Hebei Province, July 23, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhu Xudong)

The Chinese president is keenly aware that poverty eradication is a common ideal of humanity. He thus has urged his country to play an increasingly proactive role in global efforts to reduce poverty.

Xi calls it "the bigger perspective."

by Xinhua writers Xia Yuanyi, Huang Yinjiazi

BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose career has been closely associated with his country's war against poverty, declared on Thursday that China has scored a "complete victory."

The country has created a "China example" of poverty reduction and made great contributions to global poverty alleviation, Xi said when addressing a gathering marking the country's accomplishments in poverty eradication and commending role models in that cause.

During the race against impoverishment at home, the Chinese president is keenly aware that poverty eradication is a common ideal of humanity. He thus has urged his country to play an increasingly proactive role in global efforts to reduce poverty.

Xi calls it "the bigger perspective."

PEOPLE-CENTERED DEVELOPMENT

In the late 1960s, Xi, who was then less than 16 years of age, came to a small village on the loess plateau of northern Shaanxi Province and worked on the land there for seven years.

Back then, peasants had nothing to offer but sweat and toil in hopes of living better, but due to a severe scarcity of resources, that still seemed a pie in the sky for the rural impoverished.

That experience has built enduring momentum in Xi's devotion to the anti-poverty cause.

By the end of 2010, China's economy was about 6 trillion U.S. dollars, overtaking Japan as the world's second-largest economy, while there remained nearly 150 million people whose income was less than one dollar a day.