Gao Qin: The Dibao social assistance program

China's President Xi Jinping has set a very ambitious goal: The total elimination of poverty in China by the year 2020. As that date fast approaches, we sit down with Gao Qin, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work, and Director of the China Center for Social Policy at Columbia University. Qin is author of an excellent book on the subject of social assistance in China published just last year called Welfare, Work, and Poverty: Social Assistance in China, which looks at one of China’s most important social assistance programs, Dibao, that covers some 60 million people. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.