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How did China lift 800 million people out of poverty?

The Bridge to China

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The Story of the Village School

Yossi: I thought, well, who living in a beautiful village would want to come and live in one of these flats. All they have to do is pay 10,000 yuan to own a flat. And the other thing is they're guaranteed at least one employed position per family so that it in order to get the one full time sufficient to so that they can, you know, live. Yossi: It seemed to me my anecdotal my unscientific little survey suggested that they were in general pleased because after all, what used to be a two hour walk. They now had their school bus that would just take them there in 10 minutes.

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