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Relocating the poor

易地扶贫搬迁(yidi fupin banqian)

Premier Li Keqiang said recently that China should relocate people living in impoverished regions with no sustainable conditions. In Li's written instruction, relocation is crucial for targeted poverty alleviation efforts, and is a key measure so the country can meet its poverty alleviation goal to build a comprehensively well-off society in five years. The government plans to lift about 10 million people out of poverty by 2020 by relocating them.