China has achieved the UN target of halving the proportion of poor people ahead of schedule. The poverty-stricken people in China decreased by 439 million, from 689 million in 1990 to 250 million in 2011. China has made great contributions to the global poverty reduction efforts.

While working hard to address poverty in its own country, the Chinese Government has also actively participated in global poverty reduction cooperation. Since 2007, the Chinese Government and the UN system in China have co-hosted the Poverty Reduction and Development Forum on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty each year on October 17 th . In addition, it has actively participated in global, regional and bilateral exchanges and cooperation for poverty reduction, signing poverty reduction cooperation agreements with more than ten developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America to enhance experience and knowledge sharing on poverty reduction. In 2014, the Chinese Government put forward Asia Cooperation Initiative on Poverty Reduction, released together with the African Union the Guideline for China-Africa Cooperation in Poverty Reduction, and actively promoted exchange and cooperation with Latin America under the China-CELAC Forum (中拉合作论坛) . The Chinese Government has conducted poverty reduction cooperation with world nonprofit charitable organizations. In 2011, the Ministry of Science and Technology of China cooperated with Bill & Melinda Crates Foundation in Africa to solve the local poverty problems. Under the scheme of both sides, projects such as new species of green super rice, animal vaccine, and small scale teff (苔麸) landed in Africa. 130 scientists from Asia and Africa participated in the green super rice project, and the improved varieties underwent demonstrative experiment in 8 target countries surrounding the Sahara desert.

The Chinese Government has always taken poverty reduction, as an important part of its general planning for national economy and social development, giving priority to poverty reduction in its budgetary allocation, and better enforcing its policies on poverty reduction. Since 2000, the Government has formulated and implemented the Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’ s Rural Areas (2001-2010) and the Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China' s Rural Areas (2011-2020) , and significantly raised the poverty line in the country. Since 2013, China has made it clear that it would declare war on poverty with clearer goals, stronger measures and more effective actions, and must not pass down poverty from generation to generation. In 2014, the Chinese Government introduced a nationwide poverty reduction strategy of combining program of “Precise Poverty Reduction” , “Regional Poverty Reduction through Development” and “social guarantee” . From 2000 to 2014, the Chinese central government earmarked altogether RMB 296. 6 billion for poverty reduction, with an average annual increase of 11. 46%.