Explore novel methods to eliminate abject poverty

With the impoverished population in rural areas reducing by 13.86 million in 2018, China now has less than 17 million rural people living in poverty, according to the country's absolute poverty standard. Which means China has to reduce the impoverished population by about 10 million a year to meet the target of eliminating absolute poverty by 2020.

Since China launched its targeted poverty alleviation program in 2013, especially after the country stepped into the critical stage of poverty alleviation in 2015, it has lifted more than 10 million people out of poverty every year. And despite the poverty alleviation work becoming more difficult now that the rest of the impoverished population lives in abject poverty, the authorities are confident of achieving the goal of eliminating absolute poverty by 2020.

This year, the No. 1 central document on agricultural development has accorded top priority to poverty alleviation, and the country launched more elaborate and practical measures to eliminate abject poverty, focusing especially on lifting farmers in impoverished areas out of abject poverty.