The Chinese communist regime has made much fanfare of its apparent success in lifting tens of millions of rural residents out of poverty. But leaked internal documents obtained by The Epoch Times show that Beijing’s strategy is reliant in part on directing state-owned and private enterprises to buy a range of goods from China’s poorest provinces—an approach critics say will not bring about sustainable economic improvement for these regions. In late February, Chinese Leader Xi Jinping gave a televised speech declaring that China had “secured a complete victory” by lifting 98.99 million rural residents out of poverty, after efforts by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over the last eight years. He called the achievement a “miracle on earth.” The state-direct strategy to eliminate poverty was outlined in a document called the “2020 action plan” released last March by the regime’s state planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission. The …