Xi stresses poverty alleviation in talk with delegates

President Xi Jinping highlighted the importance of high-quality economic growth and poverty reduction while talking with lawmakers in Beijing on Monday.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remark while attending a panel discussion with deputies to the National People's Congress from the Inner Mongolia autonomous region. In January, Xi was elected deputy to the NPC by a unanimous vote in Inner Mongolia.

Xi said that by representing Inner Mongolia as a deputy from the region, he demonstrated the great attention that the CPC Central Committee pays to ethnic minority and border region affairs and the CPC Central Committee's firm resolve to reduce poverty.