Charity Worker Describes Worsening Poverty in China as Beijing Claims It Has Eliminated Poverty Nationwide

People eat dinner outside their rooms on a street in a migrant village on the outskirts of Beijing on Aug. 17, 2017. NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP/Getty Images

The Chinese regime recently claimed that extreme poverty has been eliminated countrywide, after removing the last remaining counties from a list of poor regions.

On Nov. 3, officials in one of China’s poorest provinces, Guizhou, announced that the last nine remaining counties had been removed from the nation’s list of poor regions. The list, drawn up in 2014, initially identified 832 counties as extremely poor.