The number of poverty-stricken people in rural areas with problems obtaining sufficient food and clothing decreased from 250 million in 1978 to 30 million in 2000; and the impoverishment rate there decreased from 30.7 percent to about three percent.

• 农村尚未解决温饱问题的贫困人口由1978年的2.；5亿人减少到2000年的3000万人，农村贫困发生率从30