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China’s migrants left behind in the war against poverty

By Reuters
14 October 2017   |   2:00 pm
China's Xi Jinping has made poverty alleviation one of his key policy issues, aiming to lift 70 million people out of severe poverty by 2020. But in that fight, many of China's urban migrants are left out.

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