Year-end evaluations get underway

Data on poverty relapse rates and impoverished households' income stability will figure in evaluations of provincial districts' poverty alleviation efforts in 2017, according to a senior official from the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development.

Xia Gengsheng, a member of the group, said on Wednesday that provinces and municipalities have begun to cross-evaluate their counterparts' poverty alleviation efforts last year, and assessments by third parties such as universities and scientific research institutions will also be made.

However, "two provinces may not evaluate each other, and the third parties will not evaluate the districts they are from, so as to avoid interference," Xia said.