The country's poverty alleviation tasks are near completion, as the number of impoverished people fell to 5.51 million at the end of 2019 from 98.99 million at the end of 2017. The poverty headcount ratio dropped to 0.6 percent from 10.2 percent during the period, with regional overall poverty being basically eradicated, Xi said.

Upon completion of the poverty eradication task this year, China will achieve the goals set in the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 10 years ahead of schedule, which is of great significance to both China and the world, as no country in the world has ever lifted so many people out of poverty in such a short period of time, he said.

The uNPRecedented achievements that China has made in poverty alleviation demonstrate the political advantages of the CPC leadership and the socialist system, he noted.

CHALLENGES REMAIN

For the next step, Xi highlighted focusing on regions in deep poverty and paying attention to the protruding issues and weak links in vigorous policy implementation.

Local governments are urged to speed up efforts in lifting the 52 poor counties and 1,113 villages out of poverty and enhance social security guarantees to impoverished people having no ability to work.

Differentiated and precise epidemic prevention and control strategies shall be implemented to overcome the impact of the outbreak, Xi said.

Regions hit hard by the epidemic should intensify epidemic control when innovating new work methods, in an effort to coordinate the epidemic control with poverty alleviation, while areas with zero or fewer cases of infections should concentrate their strengths on expediting the poverty relief, according to Xi.

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