Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, announced that China had realized its first centenary goal — building a moderately prosperous society in all respects.
"This means that we have brought about a historic resolution to the problem of absolute poverty in China, and we are now marching in confident strides toward the second centenary goal of building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects," Xi said at a ceremony marking the CPC’s centenary on July 1, 2021.
In November 2012, the 18th CPC National Congress put forward the goal of completing building a moderately prosperous society in all respects by 2020.
In 2020, following eight years of sustained work, all of China's nearly 100 million impoverished rural residents living below the current poverty line had shaken off poverty. Meanwhile, all 832 impoverished counties and 128,000 villages were also removed from the poverty list.
China’s commitment to lifting the entire impoverished population in rural areas out of poverty by 2020 was a prerequisite for completing the building of a moderately prosperous society. On the march toward common prosperity, no one has been left behind.
