Since the year of 2012, more than 10 million Chinese people have been lifted out of poverty every year. At the ongoing 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China vows to eliminate poverty by 2020.
Poverty is a global issue. According to the World Bank in 2015, 702 million people live in extreme poverty which is approximately 9.6 percent of the global population.
n. 贫困,贫乏