Developing countries escaping poverty is not unheard of and in fact a lot of the strongest economies now are ones that used to struggle before. China used to be called the sleeping giant because it was believed to be of potential. And that was right. But the question is why is it that those countries got out of poverty while some did not?
So what do you think is your country missing to get out of being a third world country stage?
China are core agricultural people, they afr farmers that were never relentless to export anything other world need. They are also naturally ready to learn people, the government invested in many of their people to go outside and explore how things were going well for other people, they develop those ideas and put it into writing in their own native language and spread that language, they were ready to be far ahead of any other countries, this is how they were able to replicate anything they see but some underdeveloped countries that were supposed to learn from them but from them and still call their product substandard goods.
After embarrassing all this ideas, they were smart enough to go to other countries some of the other western countries doesn't like to associate with particularly Africa, they did all they could to embrace them, gave them loan in return to explore their natural resources. The reason why China isn't always talk about stealing from Africa till date is because they don't just take from people, they give and in return you give them something and they don't take everything, unlike some other countries that think the world revolve around them. If you want to be developed, you have to think like China.