(Source: Xinhua| 2021-03-22 )
【编者按】习近平总书记在全国脱贫攻坚总结表彰大会上庄严宣告，我国脱贫攻坚战取得了全面胜利，完成了消除绝对贫困的艰巨任务，创造了又一个彪炳史册的人间奇迹。中国的减贫成就引发了世界各国的关注和热议，3月21日新华网聚焦希腊媒体文章，其中希腊学者、对外经济贸易大学国家对外开放研究院外国专家Pelagia Karpathiotaki（海尔）介绍了中国减贫成功的原因和实践。
China's success in ending absolute poverty was commended in Greek media by local experts and commentators recently.
China announced last month that absolute poverty has been eradicated. In 2020, all of China's nearly 100 million rural residents living below the current poverty line shook off poverty after eight years of arduous efforts.
In an article under the title "How China did it" published on Saturday in the news website slpress.gr, Greek scholar Pelagia Karpathiotaki, also Researcher of the Academy of China Open Economy Studies (UIBE), Foreign Expert UIBE, explained the reasons behind the success story.
China achieved the first of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals as set by the UN 10 years ahead of the UN timetable, Karpathiotaki stressed.
China's economic growth from the late 1970s to the present has helped reduce global poverty by 70 percent according to World Bank statistics, she added.
"In order to achieve this, an action plan was implemented with horizontal and vertical policy interventions, setting as the primary goal the eradication of absolute poverty and at the same time adopting a strategy for rural vitalization as this is a key condition for achieving the 2nd centennial goal," the Greek expert explained.
In the last eight years, over 3 million public sector officials were sent from cities and towns to villages to fight poverty "on the front lines", designing and implementing a door-to-door action plan, while the Chinese government had spent nearly 1.6 trillion yuan (246 billion U.S. dollars) of fiscal funds on tackling the problem, she noted.
China is set to achieve its first centenary goal -- completely building a moderately prosperous society in all respects in 2021 -- and embarks on a journey toward the second -- building a great modern socialist country that is prosperous, strong, democratic, culturally advanced, harmonious and beautiful by 2049, the centenary of the People's Republic of China.
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