Medical Team
Since the reform and opening-up, China's achievements in economic development had been plain for all to see.
China still wore the label of a developing country, but its GDP and level of consumer spending were already on par with those of the established capitalist powers.
In some respects, those developed countries even lagged behind China. Chinese tourists traveling abroad often felt as if they had traveled back in time, with all the inconveniences they encountered.
No other country planted communication tower after communication tower across its land the way China did. Even after covering every inch of its own territory, China's signal reached straight into neighboring countries.
The surrounding small countries had a lot they wanted to say, but weren't sure they should.
After the reform and opening-up, China had set itself a modest goal: eradicate absolute poverty by 2020.
(As a poor person, I'm shivering in fear o(TヘTo). I'm going to be wiped out in just over thirty days!)
Everyone could see that over the past few years, government officials had been throwing themselves into the fight against poverty. Poverty relief had become a major accomplishment for them. Local officials in poor areas went without saying—they were like a suicide squad. Men in their thirties looked prematurely aged, as if they were in their sixties. Sometimes officials from other regions would also come rushing in to steal kills and farm experience (credentials).
As the saying went, every chicken had its own way of relieving itself; there were always more solutions than problems.
Like a massive campaign, the number of impoverished regions had dwindled year by year.
The true causes of poverty were largely geographical. Some places were mountains and badlands, while others were barren wastelands where not even birds would leave droppings—places where even rabbits could starve