Outline shows resolution in ending poverty

BEIJING - China on Thursday officially unveiled its poverty-reduction plan for the next decade.

Goals include providing adequate food and clothing to poverty-stricken people, while ensuring them access to compulsory education, basic medical services and housing by 2020.

In the Outline for Poverty Reduction and Development of China's Rural Areas (2011-2020), the central government says that helping impoverished people to become more prosperous will be a priority over the next decade.