Down-to-earth efforts called key to reaching poverty relief goal

China can fulfill its goal of eradicating poverty by 2020 so long as governments make efforts based on reality and with a down-to-earth attitude, according to a meeting on Friday chaired by President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.

The nationwide poverty relief work faces many challenges, such as a lack of supervision over the use of funds and precision measures that target the neediest people, according to the meeting.

The meeting, held by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, heard briefings on the assessment of poverty relief efforts by provincial-level Party committees and governments last year.