千万减贫计划 (qiānwàn jiănpín jìhuà): Ten-million people poverty reduction plan

Low income families receive cash bonuses from their chicken farm cooperative on Jan 29. [Photo/xinhuanet.com]

At the end of 2015, the State Council, China's Cabinet, issued a document on the all-round deployment on China's poverty alleviation in the next five years.

China has made great achievements in poverty alleviation in recent years. From 2012 to 2014, China has lifted 52.21 million people out of poverty nationwide, and the incomes of farmers in poorer areas have increased at a higher rate than that of the national average level for three years.

But China still faces great challenges in its poverty alleviation cause. At the end of 2014, there were still 70.17 million people living in poverty in China.

To root out impoverishment in China in five to six years, the government aims at helping 11.7 million people out of poverty every year. Therefore, it is expected that the central government will implement a third 10 million people poverty alleviation plan in 2016.

Before the Spring Festival this year, President Xi Jinping visited Jinggangshan, the old revolutionary area in Central China's Jiangxi province, to inspect the poverty alleviation work there. During his visit he said that country should not leave any impoverished family or person behind.