Poverty relief efforts give wings to dreams
- By Fan Junmei
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Poverty alleviation a top priority
At a high-profile conference on poverty alleviation and development in November of 2015, China's top leadership pledged resolute measures to help the country's remaining 70 million poverty stricken citizens out of poverty and enjoy essential social services by the year 2020.
Identifying poverty alleviation still "an arduous task," President Xi Jinping urged local governments to take it as a top priority for their work, stating that "no single poor region nor an individual living in poverty will be left behind" when the country accomplishes the goal of "building a moderately prosperous society" by 2020.
Over the past three decades, some 700 million rural residents across China have risen out of poverty. China was the first developing country to meet the Millennium Development Goals target of reducing the population living in poverty by half ahead of the 2015 deadline.
By the end of 2014, China still had 70.17 million people in the countryside living below its poverty line of 2,300 yuan (376 U.S. dollars) in annual income.
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