China is determined to lift more than 70 million people and 592 impoverished counties in rural areas out of poverty by 2020.
China plans to renovate 6 million run-down urban houses in 2016, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development disclosed at a work conference on Monday.
Various new policies have been introduced in China in 2015.
China's top poverty alleviation department set a goal to lift 10 million people out of poverty in 2016 by establishing a database for the poor.
China's key public health indicators, including life expectancy and maternal mortality, have improved following medical reform that began in 2009, the country's top health official said Tuesday.
With China's 13th Five-year Plan beginning next year, the focus of reform will start with addressing the quality of ordinary people's lives.
Senior Chinese officials have approved a document to merge China's two medical insurance schemes for urban and rural residents in a bid to guarantee equal access to basic healthcare.
China should push forward the relocation of people living in the country's poorest regions to deliver its ambitious poverty relief goals, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday.
Different people have different health conditions and this will become a more serious problem should the authorities raise the retirement age for workers.
China is considering extending hukou, or household registration, to 13 million unregistered citizens, according to the Ministry of Public Security.
The top leadership of the Communist Party of China pledged on Monday to increase its efforts to eliminate poverty in rural areas and defeat regional poverty by 2020.
In 2015, China's economic growth slowed to less than 7 percent for the first time since 1990. Nevertheless, the country kept investing in people's livelihood, especially the least privileged.
In 2015, more than 10 million people have been lifted out of poverty, and the per capita net income of peasants in impoverished areas has doubled over the last five years.
