On the other side of China’s economic miracle, 100 million people remained in poverty. China in the past decade not only lifted them all out of absolute poverty but also continues to improve the social wellfare of its 1.4 billion people. This episode of "China Aspirations"shows how the country has delivered its promises.
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00:45 Urbanization on a huge scale and a booming economy
00:56 that is now the world's second largest.
00:59 China had already achieved these a decade ago.
01:02 But on the other side of the miracle,
01:05 100 million people remain in absolute poverty.
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01:12 1.4 billion people yearn for more comprehensive medical care.
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01:25 And the government needs to implement self-reform
01:32 in the new era.
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01:36 Leave no one behind.
01:39 This has been the Chinese government's promise.
01:43 Can it keep its promise?
01:45 Can it do so in a decade?
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02:52 SMA is a rare genetic disorder that is now the top cause
02:58 of death for children under two.
03:01 Up to one in 6,000 newborns are diagnosed
03:04 with the disease worldwide.
03:07 Tiechu is one of them.
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03:43 One single SMA injection in China can cost around $100,000 US.
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04:11 And a child with SMA needs at least three shots per year.
04:16 That kind of money is beyond even imagination
04:19 for almost all Chinese families.
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04:29 Though there are about 30,000 SMA patients in China,
04:43 they still make up a tiny fraction of the nation's
04:47 1.4 billion people.
04:49 Their struggle is often unseen, and their stories
04:53 go largely unheard.
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06:15 For many patients' families, every penny counts,
06:19 and every shot matters.
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06:24 Tie Zhu's mother is doing all she can,
06:39 but still it's far from enough.
06:41 All she thinks of now is getting the next shot needed
06:45 to save her son.
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06:49 The medical bills for her two SMA children are overwhelming,
06:59 but Xu Xiuzhen has to cope.
07:02 She's determined to help her children live life
07:05 to the fullest.
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07:48 These mothers and children have been
07:51 fighting against the odds.
07:53 They are not alone.
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12:24 No income households, like Tietou's family,
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12:36 With the price cut, many more can now restart their treatment.
12:41 They are also making friends with fellow sufferers.
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16:06 The safety of China's 1.4 billion people
16:09 is the responsibility of its 2 million police officers.
16:13 Duty and honor, fighting crime, and being
16:22 a guardian of the community attract many young people
16:26 into the force.
16:29 12 years ago, Huang Hai, who had a master's degree,
16:33 applied to join.
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17:08 Against his expectations, Huang Hai has never
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17:16 Instead, he has spent 12 years in a small, cramped local police
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17:31 The police to civilian ratio in China is 1 in 700,
17:48 just half the ratio in the UK and US.
17:52 In the community that Huang Hai and his colleagues serve,
17:56 the ratio is 1 in 2,000.
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18:36 Stopping a girl from committing suicide or arresting
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18:48 The past decade has seen unprecedented urbanization
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18:54 To take Chongqing alone, 2010 to 2020,
18:58 the population of the southwestern metropolis
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19:06 This has placed a great burden on its police.
19:10 The city's police answer 20,000 emergency calls every day.
19:15 And the duty of investigating them
19:18 falls on the shoulders of police officers like Huang Hai.
19:22 In most cases, he is called on to mediate small disputes
19:26 between residents.
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19:32 The pregnant woman is in a conflict
19:44 with the hotel owner because the room she is staying in
19:47 has also been booked online by someone else.
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19:58 Unwilling to switch to a smaller room offered by the hotel,
20:02 she asked the police to help negotiate
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21:02 For the police officers, just smoothing things over
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21:30 The key is to find a solution that
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21:58 Police officers soon find a room of the same size
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22:25 But not every case can be as successfully resolved.
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22:42 From quarrels between old divorced couples
22:46 to conflicts between consumers and sellers,
22:49 trivial pursuits are a daily test
22:52 of police officers' patience.
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23:30 The dedication with which they perform
23:33 the wide range of duties required by their job
23:36 has led to falling national crime rates.
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23:45 China's crime rate today is at a record low.
24:05 Incidences of mugging and robbery have fallen by 96.1%
24:10 and theft by 62.6%.
24:14 Going out at night is safer than ever before.
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25:28 Behind police officers' heavy workload
25:40 is a decade of deepening reforms.
25:44 Over the past 10 years, the Chinese government
25:47 has reformed its civil service extensively,
25:50 from anti-corruption to building a clean,
25:53 modern, and efficient system of governance.
25:56 Law enforcement has seen great changes in China
25:59 to become more people-oriented.
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26:39 Protecting people's safety requires all kinds of effort,
26:59 including effort from those who have to hide
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27:04 and are trained to tackle the most dangerous situations,
27:08 even risking their lives.
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28:44 Isolated by mountains, Dadai village in Chongqing County
28:51 has been one of China's most impoverished areas for decades.
28:57 It was also among the country's last villages
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29:09 But education, seen by the Chinese government
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29:18 had still somehow been neglected in the village.
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30:53 In many remote villages in China,
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31:17 be a way out of poverty and give them much more control
31:21 over where life takes them.
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31:39 Pan Dehua is one of around 3 million workers
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32:21 Born in a poor village, Pan was the first girl there
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32:27 Her neighbors strongly opposed the idea.
32:30 That put Pan and her family under great pressure.
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32:37 Having worked in Dadai village for three years,
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33:49 Although education could be a way for Haoming
33:52 to change her life in the long run,
33:54 her parents saw more value in the labor she could provide.
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36:25 15-year-old Haoming has her own thoughts.
36:36 A part of her longs for the world beyond the mountains
36:40 and the future she might have.
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36:51 Deep in her heart, the young Haoming
36:54 is not ready to depart from the life course of her parents.
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37:02 Haoming is conflicted.
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39:19 Pan Dehua spends an hour waiting for Ji Wang at his home,
39:24 before giving up and leaving.
39:26 On her way back, however, she bumps into the boy.
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47:08 Over the past decade, all of China's nearly 100 million
47:19 people living below the current poverty line
47:22 have shaken off poverty.
47:24 Every county has been connected to 5G internet,
47:28 giving every village a high-speed service.
47:31 The toilet revolution has given 70% of rural households
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47:39 The number of people covered by basic old age insurance
47:43 has risen to 1.04 billion, an increase of 250 million.
47:50 China has made positive progress in various tasks
47:57 of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
48:01 Development.
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