From February 29th to 30th, 2020, the National Poverty Alleviation and Development Work Conference was held in Beijing. Liu xx, Party Secretary and Director of the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office, made a work report at the meeting.

The meeting pointed out that 2020 is a year of poverty alleviation. The sudden epidemic and severe floods in COVID-19 have brought severe challenges to poverty alleviation. All localities and departments conscientiously implement the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, resolutely honor the solemn promise of the Party with practical actions, actively respond to the impact of the epidemic on tackling poverty, carefully check and fill gaps to solve problems, establish a monitoring and assistance mechanism for poverty prevention, further change their work style, enhance their ability, and effectively and orderly promote poverty alleviation.

The meeting pointed out that in the magnificent practice of tackling poverty, all localities and departments have always adhered to theoretical armed forces, objective standards, precise strategies, problem orientation, reform and innovation, increased investment, joint efforts to tackle poverty, seeking truth and being pragmatic, and preventing risks. After eight years of continuous struggle, the poverty alleviation work has made great achievements that have attracted worldwide attention, fully demonstrating the political advantages of the party's leadership and the socialist system, and fully proving that socialism is made and a happy life is made.

Poverty alleviation background:

Since the founding of New China, China has led the people to declare war on poverty. Through the efforts since the reform and opening up, we have successfully embarked on a road of poverty alleviation and development with China characteristics, which has successfully lifted more than 700 million rural poor people out of poverty and laid a solid foundation for building a well-off society in an all-round way. China has become the country with the largest poverty reduction population in the world and the first country in the world to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

By the end of 20 14, there were still more than 70 million rural poor people in China. ?

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