Then the novel coronavirus pandemic tore through the global economy.China shut down factories in January and February to prevent a larger outbreak and contain the virus, but at the same time it severely damaged employment and production domestically.Consequently, China's economy shrank by 6.8% in the first quarter of 2020 compared to a year earlier.
Millions unemployedIndependent experts say getting an accurate picture of rural poverty on the ground is difficult, partly due to the sheer size of China and partly due to the secrecy of its government, especially under Xi's increasingly authoritarian and opaque administration.But there are already indications that China's poor may have been hit hard by the coronavirus economic downturn.Unemployment in China has jumped in the wake of the virus, officially rising as high as 6.
LOL! They’ll end poverty by making everyone into poverty & if everyone is in poverty nobody is in poverty yay communism! It totally works! 🤡
Ah yes, China the greatest country.
It’s ok to quit and delete China!
Surely they can just write up the history at the end of the year to have achieved anything
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Yeah, letting hundreds of thousands of people die in his country and allowing it to continue killing millions more! Thanks China.
Tbf, they are making a better fist of it than some countries that shall remain nameless *coughs*...UK.
All evidence of that pledge will by now have been erased!
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