3.4m poor lifted up by 2020 in Guangxi

The Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region aims to lift its 3.41 million poor out of poverty by 2020 by boosting infrastructure and key industries, a high-ranking official said.

Guangxi is fourth among provincial-level regions in the number of people living under the poverty line, with 50 counties and more than 4,000 villages yet to be removed from the list, Sun Dawei, regional deputy Party secretary, said.

"Before 2020, about 900,000 people have to be lifted from poverty each year. It's an urgent and tough task for us in such a short time," said Sun, a delegate to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.