Leader keen to ensure government in tune with the public

Xi carried out an inspection tour to Northwest China's Gansu province in 2013. Dingxi city and Linxia Hui autonomous prefecture are two areas known for their barren land and poor natural conditions in central Gansu.

Xi said the central authorities attached high importance to poverty alleviation and to the development of areas inhabited by ethnic groups, assuring greater government support to help local people out of poverty.

Xi calls for targeted policies to fight poverty

During a visit to the poverty-stricken south of Hunan, Xi said alleviating poverty in the region should be done with targeted policies, including improving agriculture and education.

"Poverty alleviation plans should be based on real situations," Xi said. "It should be targeted at specific groups in specific situations and should avoid using loud slogans."

Xi checks up on quake victims

President Xi Jinping visited the quake-hit area of Ludian county in Yunnan province, inquiring about the livelihoods of the quake victims in the winter.

"I was very worried about how the relocation work was going, whether you had hot food, whether the children had schools to go to and if there were medical services available," he was quoted as saying.

Xi urged authorities in Ludian, a poverty-stricken mountainous area in northern Yunnan, to combine reconstruction work with poverty relief efforts.

Xi stresses relief of poverty in rural areas

Xi said he wanted to end poverty in old revolutionary base areas and improve local people's standard of living.

"A well-off society will be incomplete if people in the old guerrilla base areas cannot shake off poverty," Xi said during a meeting with Party chiefs of 24 counties and cities from Shaanxi and Gansu provinces and the Ningxia Hui autonomous region.

Xi emphasizes better livelihoods on Guizhou province tour

Xi stressed that poverty relief in underdeveloped rural areas was key to economic development nationwide.

Xi made the remarks at a Communist Party of China symposium on poverty relief and economic and social development during the 2016-2020 period.

Xi urged Guizhou to adopt a unique development path, different from both the nation's east and the west, and to catch up with the developed areas.

China pledges resolute measures to root out poverty by 2020

Identifying poverty alleviation "an arduous task," Xi said at a meeting on poverty alleviation 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.

Xi said local governments and Party committees must place poverty alleviation at the top of their work agenda, and how this job is done will be the most important yardstick for gauging the performance of local leaders.

Xi orders China's developed east to better aid poor west

Xi has urged developed regions in the east help their partner regions in the west better fight poverty at a national conference on poverty alleviation through east-west cooperation in Yinchuan, capital city of northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region.

"There are still some 50 million Chinese struggling with poverty, and by 2020 they must all be lifted out of poverty. This is my top concern now," Xi said.

Respect, protect nature during development: Xi

Xi said the protection of the ecosystem was "the most important foundation" of China's sustainable development during a tour of the northwestern province of Qinghai.

He stressed that the region's ecosystem was its "biggest merit, responsibility and potential," adding that measures must be taken to ensure coordinated economic, social and environmental development.