In the hard fight against COVID-19, China has demonstrated the merits of its system: The remarkable mobilization ability of resources and the decisive leadership of the Communist Party of China. How to understand the Chinese system when praise and bias both exist? In this episode of the Watcher, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, host of the CGTN show Closer to China with R.L.Kuhn, finds the parallel secrets of China's success in eradicating extreme poverty, and interprets them through the lens of both poverty alleviation and COVID-19 containment.