State Council focuses on key poor regions

Victory against poverty by 2020 within reach, leading group official says

China aims to lift more than 10 million people above the poverty line this year, and 300 counties will be removed from the poverty list, a high-ranking official said on Wednesday.

The two goals, if accomplished, will lay a foundation for victory in the country's poverty alleviation campaign by 2020, Ou Qingping, deputy head of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, said at a policy briefing hosted by the State Council Information Office.