According to global experience, the most difficult phase in poverty eradication is when the population living in poverty accounts for less than 10 percent of the overall population.

As of the end of 2016, there were still 43.35 million people in China living below the country's poverty line of 2,300 yuan (344.30 U.S. dollars) of annual income as constant with 2010 prices, accounting for about 3 percent of China's population.

To achieve the target in 2020, China needs to bring more than 10 million people out of poverty every year, meaning nearly one million people per month or 20 people per minute.

China is in a race with time, and President Xi has put himself on the front lines.

In December 2017, Xi was in Fuping County of Hebei Province, while in November 2013 he went to Huayuan County of Hunan Province, and in June 2017, he visited Zunyi County of Guizhou Province.

Lyuliang was the last stop of Xi's tour to the 14 poverty-stricken areas in China since becoming general secretary of the CPC Central Committee in 2017.

He visited the poor, talked with local officials, studied the local conditions and reviewed the poverty-alleviation work.

It is fair to say that poverty reduction has been at the top of Xi's priority list in the past five years.

According to Xi, if rural China, particularly impoverished areas, is left behind, there will be no "moderately prosperous society."

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