Poverty alleviation is important in 2020. This is a benchmark year — China’s socialist experiment is supposed to deliver a ‘moderately well-off society’ in 2020 before making the big push towards a ‘modern socialist country’ by 2035 and a ‘modern socialist power’ by 2050. 2020 also sees the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan period, … Continue reading Rural China’s impossible policy trinity