OVER the past four decades,China has lifted more than 740 million people out of poverty with its poverty headcount ratio dropping to 3.1 percent by the end of 2017 from 97.5 percent in 1978.People’s lives have remarkably improved with easy access to transportation infrastructure,electricity,running water,and telecommunication networks.As China ratchets up its efforts to reduce poverty with a raft of targeted measures being introduced,those still trapped in poverty in the country are gradually finding their way out of it.All this has undoubtedly inspired the African countries that are still mired in destitution.