'Fighting poverty is most important task,' Xi says

Editor's note: This is the third story in a series of previews on the two sessions - the annual gatherings of the nation's top legislature and its top body of political advisers. The sessions will start in early March.

China will maintain its focus on the national anti-poverty campaign and intends to lift at least another 10 million rural villagers out of poverty this year.

The central government has promised by 2020 to have no Chinese living beneath the poverty level, which was set in 2011 at 2,300 yuan ($334) per person per year.