Poverty relief money lifting poorest regions

China's allocation of 105 billion yuan ($15.2 billion) to lift people out of poverty in the country's least-developed regions is already producing strong results, a senior official said on Wednesday.

The recipients of the funds, disbursed from last year until 2020, include the Tibet autonomous region, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region and several prefectures in Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan and Gansu provinces.

The regions have long been regarded as the major battlefields in the government's efforts to eradicate absolute poverty nationwide by the end of next year.