A poverty relief official has said that China's poverty line of 680 yuan (US$85) per capita net income a year is too low for subsistence and fails to spread benefits of the nation's economic boom.Wu Zhong, an official in charge of international cooperation and poverty reduction with the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development,said China's economy surged by 10.9 percent in the first half of 2006, but the poverty line failed to reflect the average standard of living.
680 yuan is 20 percent of the average annual per capita income of China's rural population.
