Database directs aid for poor

13th Five-Year Plan outlines goals to raise 70 million people out of poverty by 2020

China's top poverty alleviation department set a goal to lift 10 million people out of poverty in 2016 by establishing a database for the poor.

"We will establish a database for the poor in 2016 and help lift them out of poverty more efficiently and effectively," Liu Yongfu, director of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, said on Thursday.