A total of 68.53 million rural people over the past five years have seen their fortunes transformed, with the national poverty rate falling from 10.2 percent to 3.1 percent.
There were still 30.46 million rural people living below the national poverty line at the end of 2017, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
Guo Naishuo, an NPC deputy from Jilin Province, said industries should be developed to prevent people falling into poverty again.
He also advised health stations at residential communities to better serve the neighborhood to reduce people's medical bills and save resources of top public hospitals for the critically ill.
As for the GDP target, China needs annualized growth of 6.3 percent in 2018-2020, according to the office of the central leading group on financial and economic affairs. Its economy expanded 6.9 percent in 2017.
In developing a modernized economy as requested by the Party congress, China announced more efforts to deepen supply-side structural reform to attain high-quality development at the central economic work conference held at the end of 2017.
The tone-setting meeting also listed "pushing forward a new pattern of all-round opening up" as one of the priorities for this year and beyond. The year 2018 marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up drive.
Jia Hongtao, a deputy to the NPC from Heilongjiang Province, advised more technological innovation to turn "made in China" into "created in China."
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