China will further reduce the number of rural residents living in poverty by over 10 million, including 3.4 million to be relocated from inhospitable areas. Central government funding for poverty alleviation will be increased by over 30 percent.

In poor counties, different rural development funds will be merged, and oversight over funds and projects will be strengthened. The strictest possible evaluations and assessments of poverty alleviation will be carried out, and stern measures will be taken to address deception, falsification, and the manipulation of numbers in poverty elimination work.

A villager feeds her chickens in Shenjialing village, located on a mountain just kilometers away from downtown Lanzhou, the capital city of Gansu province. An agricultural cooperative was set up in 2016 in the village to help poverty-stricken residents make more money.[Photo by Ma Chi/chinadaily.com.cn]