Qin Gao, director of Columbia University's China Center for Social Policy, was quoted in the CNN news report “Xi Jinping is determined to end all poverty in China by 2020. Can he do it?” Qin Gao said in a 2018 report that broader government support for healthcare and employment would be more useful than initiatives on an individual basis or e-commerce measures. "Only a combination of effective development measures and social policies and services can help China eradicate persisting rural poverty in the long run," she said.
