'China also points to the achievements of hundreds of millions of its people in shaking off poverty as an indication of how Communist leadership has helped to enhance human dignity.'
Yawn!  The CPC is using the same old and tired justification of what they are doing to their people.  They conveniently (want you to) forget that how did China was on the brink of economic collapse and the Chinese living in abject poverty by the end of Cultural Revolution, it is all because of the CPC making!  To right what they have done wrong (somewhat economically but never politically) and say it in straight face as 'great accomplishment' needs some 'special material' (Chairman Mao said the Communist party members are made of special material).  BTW after over 30 years of reform, they should get past that low bar of 'feeding people' if they ever want to compare themselves to the Western prosperous countries.  And they love the Western countries since so many officials and rich people flock to there!