Ending absolute poverty becoming a reality

This is the first year of the implementation of the rural rejuvenation strategy (2018-20) as well as the three-year targeted poverty alleviation drive. While the rural rejuvenation strategy focuses on improving the overall rural living environment, the targeted poverty alleviation drive is aimed at lifting deeply impoverished families and areas out of poverty. And both have been alleviating poverty in an all-round way.

Local authorities have made specific rural rejuvenation plans applicable to their areas but in accordance with the national rural rejuvenation strategy, and taken measures to facilitate rural industrial rejuvenation, talent rejuvenation, cultural rejuvenation, ecological rejuvenation and organizational rejuvenation. Major projects for overall rural rejuvenation have been implemented as well.

Nationwide, agricultural production has developed steadily. This year the overall grain yield has reached 660 million tons. The planting and replanting structure has been further optimized, with the farming areas for crops that are in short supply in China, such as soybean, increasing further. For example, the total planting area for soybean in 2018 has reached 8.4 million hectares, an increase of 1.9 percent year-on-year, with the soybean yield reaching 16 million tons, up 4.8 percent year-on-year. In a sense, the high-quality development of the agricultural industry has reduced the impact of the Sino-US trade conflict.