
Passage: China's urban residents' right to minimum living security has been confirmed in the form of legislation, but the minimum living security for farmers, which accounts for more than 80% of the total population of the country, is still blank. The key to realizing rural subsistence allowances is to raise funds. An economist asserts that the realization of rural subsistence allowance is completely within the country's financial resources.
Question: Which of the followings, if true, gives the greatest support to the economist's claim?Which of the followings, if true, gives the greatest support to the economist's claim?
A. A.At present, there are 23.65 million people living in absolute poverty in rural areas of China. The existing methods can no longer solve the problem of poverty alleviation, but the establishment and improvement of rural subsistence allowances.
B. B.Subsistence allowances for rural residents need about 25 billion yuan a year, which is 0.83 percent of China's total fiscal revenue of 3 trillion yuan in 2005.
C. C.The cost of rural subsistence allowances is about 25 billion yuan a year, one eighth of the 200 billion yuan spent on the Three Gorges Project.
D. D.Since 2000, the government has increased funding for poverty alleviation and development, but the reduction of the number of people living in absolute poverty has slowed significantly.
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