"We can't claim to be a moderately prosperous society in all respects if we have any person in China still living in extreme poverty," says Robert Kuhn, a renowned China expert and China Reform Friendship Medal laureate.

For ordinary Chinese, the story of constructing a 4G base station in a remote village in northwestern China truly shows the meaning of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects.

Read more about Robert Lawrence Kuhn's views of China's poverty alleviation drive.