China's ruling Communist Party says its initiatives have helped to lift millions of people out of poverty, but they can require drastic changes, sometimes uprooting whole communities and prod minorities to embrace the language and lifestyle of the Han.
An aerial view shows new village houses built by the Chinese government for ethnic minority in Ganluo county, southwest China's Sichuan province on Sept. 10, 2020. China's ruling Communist Party says its initiatives have helped to lift millions of people out of poverty. Yi ethnic minority members were moved out of their mountain villages in China’s southwest and into the newly built town in an anti-poverty initiative.
The party says such initiatives have helped to lift millions of people out of poverty. But they can require drastic changes, sometimes uprooting whole communities. They fuel complaints the party is trying to erase cultures as it prods minorities to embrace the language and lifestyle of the Han, who make up more than 90% of China’s population.
Mass relocations still are carried out because some mountainous and other areas are too isolated, said Wang Sangui, president of the China Poverty Alleviation Research Institute of Renmin University in Beijing.In Sichuan, which includes some of China’s poorest areas, 80 billion yuan has been spent to date to relocate 1.4 million people, according to Peng Qinghua, the provincial party secretary. He said that included building 370,000 new homes and over 110,000 kilometers of rural roads.
In one village, Xujiashan, annual household income has risen from 1,750 yuan in 2014 to 11,000 yuan , according to its deputy secretary, Zhang Lixin.
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