E-commerce, education bolster rural livelihoods

Poverty reduction measures were highlighted by deputies to the National People's Congress from Gansu province when President Xi Jinping joined their panel discussion on Thursday.

Tang Xiaoming, an NPC deputy and Party secretary of the city of Dingxi, said that through measures like making solid alleviation plans for every poor family, local government is making full efforts to implement Xi's instructions to reduce poverty.

In February 2013, Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited poor families in the village of Yuangudui in Dingxi's Weiyuan county, where he urged local officials to make poverty reduction the top priority in their work.