Well-tuned steps urged for poverty eradication

President Xi Jinping underlined on Monday the need to shore up areas of weakness and carry out more targeted poverty alleviation efforts so that decisive progress can be made in building the country into a moderately prosperous society in all respects.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remark while presiding over the fourth meeting of the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs. Xi is head of the committee.

The meeting stressed the importance of achieving targets for poverty alleviation across the board and focusing efforts on areas of extreme poverty, according to a statement released after the meeting.