On way to winning the fight against poverty

Building a moderately well-off society in an all-round way by 2020, just before the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, is the major task on the road to establishing socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party with Xi Jinping as its core decided to expedite development in order to improve people's livelihoods and welfare. China has lifted on average 10 million rural people out of poverty every year from 2013 to 2016. The total number of people lifted out of poverty in both rural and urban areas during the period was more than 55.64 million. As a percentage of China's total population, the number of poor people dropped from 10.2 percent in 2012 to 4.5 percent in 2016, with the increase in the incomes of rural residents in poverty-stricken areas being higher than the national average level in terms of percentage.

The central leadership has instructed governments at all levels to accord priority to poverty alleviation and employ all the necessary resources to eliminate absolute poverty in their areas by 2020.