THE STRATEGY OF CHINA TO ERADICATE EXTREME POVERTY AND HUNGER IN ACCORDANCE TO THE MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS 2010-2015

Abstract

In 2000, the United Nations have brought together nations to sign the Millennium Declaration, where all signed nations must commit to the Millennium Development Goals. The Millennium Development Goals consists of eight goals which focus on the welfare of the citizen, eradicating poverty included. Based on the reports made by the United Nations Development Programme, China is chosen as one of the countries with the largest contribution to the decrease in number of extreme poverty. This research focuses on analyzing and describing the successful strategy of China in alleviating the number of people living under the poverty line from the year 2010 until 2015 through the use of qualitative and descriptive method. The writer uses sources such as books, journals, news sources and electronic resources as a reference to write this thesis. From the collected data such as China’s Five-Year Plan program, it was shown that China has put their focus on using fiscal, industry, social and credit funding to improve its soft infrastructure and hard infrastructure through their national and international projects to achieve the set goal from the Millennium Development Goals. The projects include the Belt and Road Initiative. Through this strategy, China was able to lift more than half of its population living in impoverished condition above the poverty line.