Anti-poverty efforts never end

With two years left before the 2020 deadline of China's poverty alleviation campaign, there are still 16.6 million people living in poverty in about 500 counties across the country.

Almost a mission impossible to many other countries, it is almost in the bag for China, which has seen about 13 million people being lifted out of poverty each year on average since 2012.

The momentum in poverty relief has actually been maintained for more than 40 years - although driven by different factors in different times - during which about 740 million people have bidden farewell to grinding poverty, accounting for 70 percent of the global total who have been lifted out of destitution over the same period of time.