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This article provides a detailed analysis of China's ongoing struggle against poverty. In addition to discussing the recently concluded targeted poverty alleviation program, in which the CPC-led government achieved its goal of ending extreme poverty, the author discusses the anti-poverty measures taken during the various phases of the Chinese Revolution, including land reform in the liberated areas in the 1930s and 1940s; the period of initial socialist construction from 1949; reform and opening up from 1978; and the more recent measures aimed at building common prosperity. He concludes that poverty alleviation, and more broadly the improvement of people's living standards, has been foundational to the entire Chinese socialist project and constitutes a key theme of each of its stages.

Este artigo compara a resposta do Estado chinês à pandemia da Covid-19 com as dos principais países capitalistas ocidentais. Reúne provas que mostram que a China mobilizou recursos governamentais, econômicos, tecnológicos, científicos e humanos sem precedentes a fim de controlar o surto viral. Em países como os Estados Unidos e o Reino Unido, por outro lado, a resposta à Covid-19 tem sido até agora insuficiente, e como resultado, estes países não tiveram nem perto do nível de sucesso da China na proteção das suas populações contra a infecção. Analisando as razões desta disparidade, o artigo conclui que o sistema econômico e político socialista chinês, juntamente com a liderança do Partido Comunista da China, têm sido fatores indispensáveis nos esforços extraordinários da China para responder a uma das maiores ameaças à humanidade na história moderna.

It was widely assumed in the West following the collapse of European socialism that China would undergo a similar process of counter-revolution. This article seeks to understand why, three decades later, this hasn't happened, and whether it is likely to happen in the foreseeable future. The article contrasts China's "reform and opening up" process, pursued since 1978, with the "perestroika" and "glasnost" policies taken up in the Soviet Union under the Gorbachev leadership. A close analysis of the available data makes it clear that China's reform has been far more successful than the Soviet reform; that, in contrast to the Soviet Union in the 1980s, all the key quality of life indicators in China have undergone significant improvement in the last 40 years, and China is emerging as a global leader in science, technological innovation and environmental preservation. The article argues that the disparate outcomes in China and the Soviet Union are the result primarily of the far more effective economic strategy pursued by the Chinese government, along with the continued strengthening of the Communist Party of China's leadership.