The quote: Assessment by third-party agencies earlier this month showed that the poverty incidence in the nine counties in Guizhou decreased to zero percent and

The quote: Assessment by third-party agencies earlier this month showed that the poverty incidence in the nine counties in Guizhou decreased to zero percent and that the satisfaction rate among locals was over 99 percent, said Li Jian, director of the provincial poverty alleviation and development office, at a press briefing. It does sound like that provincial bureaucrat was getting ahead of themselves. It doesn't sound like Orwell 1984, and it's not really the heart of the story.