Li: Use more funds on Guangxi poverty

Premier Li Keqiang said that more money should be used to mitigate poverty and further improve people's livelihoods in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, which has 2.46 million people living below the poverty line.

Li also said more central government support will be given to poverty-stricken ethnic regions. He spoke after joining a panel discussion with deputies of the National People's Congress from Guangxi on Tuesday.

It was Li's second participation in two consecutive years in an NPC discussion with the Guangxi delegation. He was elected by the People's Congress of Guangxi as an NPC deputy in January.