Anti-poverty campaign goal within sight

China has lifted more than 68 million people out of poverty over the past five years and is determined to help another 30 million rise from destitution before the end of 2020, Xinhua News Agency reported.

In all, 68.53 million people, two-thirds of impoverished Chinese, have said goodbye to their straitened circumstances since late 2012, when the Communist Party of China opened its 18th National Congress and Xi Jinping was elected top leader, said Liu Yongfu, head of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, Xinhua reported on Sunday.

These past five years saw the greatest achievements in China's poverty alleviation, Liu said, adding that decisive progress has been made.