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Poverty-free Lhasa?

January 9, 2019;

The city government of Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, has claimed to have achieved its target of eliminating poverty. They are reported as announcing that nearly 44,500 people were removed from the poverty list last year, thus ending poverty in the capital. The Chinese press has reported big investment in development and job creation to alleviate poverty.

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