ASEAN countries praise poverty alleviation work, urge greater cooperation

Representatives from the 10 Association of Southeast Asian Nations have hailed China's rural development model, especially the country's efforts on poverty reduction.

Officials from the member countries' ruling parties made the comments on Friday during a three-day visit to the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in the southwest.

The autonomous region, which had 4.52 million poverty-stricken people at the end of 2015, is regarded as a major front in the fight against poverty across the country.