China vows to lift remaining 70 mln above poverty line by 2020

November 29, 2015 13:42

China's top leadership has pledged resolute measures to lift the remaining 70 million poor people above poverty line by 2020 which amounted a million a month.

A two-day high-profile conference on poverty alleviation and development acknowledged here that major tasks for governments over the next five years will include ensuring the poverty-stricken people to have enough to eat and wear, and to enjoy compulsory education, health service and housing.

Identifying poverty alleviation still "an arduous task," President Xi Jinping said 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.

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