There are about 30 million people who can barely feed themselves and an additional 60 million who are in “vulnerable poverty” and a huge bulk of rural population that constitutes more than 64 per cent of its 1.3 billion total population that suffer from rural-urban income disparities. A scholar from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security had written in the People’s Daily that 20.53 million urban Chinese now live below the official subsistence line. An earlier report of the Ministry of Civil Affairs stated that an estimated 19.98 million of the China’s 320 million non-farming population were in “extreme poverty”. Premier Wen Jiabao in his interview with the press shortly after the closing session of the 1st session of the 10th NPC revealed that 30 million farmers in China are still living below the poverty line and even those that have been lifted above the poverty line, live at a very low level. He further pointed out that the per capita income of these people is only 625 yuan (US$ 75). Does the PRC still needs to boast about the success it is making in achieving the MDG targets?