Poverty relief requires complete commitment

President Xi Jinping's visit to Zhaojue county in Southwest China's Sichuan province, one of the country's most poverty-stricken counties, five days before Spring Festival, points to the importance China's top leadership attaches to the poverty alleviation task.

It has become a regular practice for Xi, who is also general secretary of the Party Central Committee, to visit poverty-stricken rural families immediately before Spring Festival.

With such visits, he is telling officials at all levels never to forget their mission of serving the people. He is telling them to rack their brains and do whatever they can to help the remaining some 30 million poor villagers in the country out of poverty.