Targeted Poverty Elimination
Eliminating poverty, improving living standards, and achieving common prosperity is a fundamental task for socialism and an important mission of the CPC. Since 1949, and particularly from the late 1970s, the CPC has led the people in the battle against poverty and launched a massive poverty alleviation campaign. It has helped more than 800 million people escape poverty, an outstanding achievement in the history of poverty reduction.
The CPC has made a solemn promise that poor people and poor areas will enjoy moderate prosperity together with the rest of the country. Since 2012, the CPC Central Committee with Xi Jinping at the core has taken a people-centered approach to development and made poverty alleviation a priority. They have adopted many creative and unique policies and measures, and the battle against poverty has been massive in terms of scale and inputs.
The Decision on Winning the Battle Against Poverty, promulgated by the central authorities in November 2015, set the overall goals for poverty elimination by 2020. It proposed five targeted measures, to be employed in accordance with local conditions: boosting the economy to create more jobs for the disadvantaged; relocating those living under adverse natural conditions; providing eco-jobs for impoverished people; improving education in poor areas; and improving social security directed to poverty elimination.
Winning the battle against poverty was set as a task in the report to the 19th CPC National Congress. The report demanded greater efforts to mobilize the energies of the whole Party, the whole country, and the whole of society, and to persevere with targeted poverty alleviation and elimination measures. China would continue the working mechanism whereby the central leadership makes overall plans, provincial authorities take overall responsibility, and city (prefecture) and county authorities ensure implementation, and it would strengthen the system for making heads of Party committees and governments at all levels assume overall responsibility for poverty alleviation.
Poverty alleviation is an all-encompassing campaign. China pays particular attention to helping people build up confidence in their own ability to lift themselves out of poverty, and ensures that they can acquire the knowledge and skills they need in order to succeed. It will strengthen collaboration on poverty alleviation between the eastern and western regions, and provide focused assistance to areas of extreme poverty.
By the year 2020, three targets were to be reached – all rural residents living below the current poverty line lifted out of poverty, all poor counties freed from poverty, and overall regional poverty eliminated. Poverty alleviation should reach those who truly need it and deliver genuine outcomes.
The year 2020 witnessed China's decisive victory over extreme poverty. Thanks to eight years of determined endeavors, the country had accomplished the task within the set timeframe. All rural residents living under the current poverty line had been lifted out of poverty, and all 832 impoverished counties removed from the poverty list, thus eliminating absolute poverty and overall regional poverty and transforming previously impoverished areas. Standards of living have notably improved, and the people have a stronger sense of gain, happiness and security.
As the world's most populous developing country, China has been an active supporter and promoter of the global poverty reduction effort. China's achievements in eliminating poverty and helping other countries fulfil the goals set in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development have made an impressive contribution to global poverty reduction.
精准脱贫攻坚战
消除贫困、改善民生、逐步实现共同富裕，是社会主义的本质要求，是中国共产党的重要使命。新中国成立以来特别是改革开放以来，中国共产党带领人民持续向贫困宣战，实施大规模扶贫开发行动，使8亿多贫困人口成功脱贫，创造了人类减贫史上的奇迹。
让贫困人口和贫困地区同全国一道进入全面小康社会，是中国共产党的庄严承诺。中共十八大以来，以习近平同志为核心的中共中央坚持以人民为中心的发展思想，把脱贫攻坚摆到治国理政突出位置，采取了许多具有原创性、独特性的重大举措，组织实施了人类历史上规模最大、力度最强的脱贫攻坚战。2015年11月，中共中央、国务院印发《关于打赢脱贫攻坚战的决定》，对打赢脱贫攻坚战作出全面部署，要求到2020年，通过“五个一批”即发展生产脱贫一批、易地搬迁脱贫一批、生态补偿脱贫一批、发展教育脱贫一批、社会保障兜底一批等措施，解决贫困人口脱贫问题。
2017年10月，中共十九大报告提出坚决打赢脱贫攻坚战，要动员全党全国全社会力量，坚持精准扶贫、精准脱贫，坚持中央统筹省负总责市县抓落实的工作机制，强化党政一把手负总责的责任制，坚持大扶贫格局，注重扶贫同扶志、扶智相结合，深入实施东西部扶贫协作，重点攻克深度贫困地区脱贫任务，确保到2020年中国现行标准下农村贫困人口实现脱贫，贫困县全部摘帽，解决区域性整体贫困，做到脱真贫、真脱贫。
2020年是中国脱贫攻坚战决胜之年。经过8年持续奋斗，中国如期完成了新时代脱贫攻坚目标任务，现行标准下农村贫困人口全部脱贫，832个国家级贫困县全部脱贫摘帽，消除了绝对贫困和区域性整体贫困，取得了脱贫攻坚的重大胜利，彻底改变了贫困地区的面貌，显著提高了人民生活质量，极大增强了人民的获得感、幸福感、安全感。
中国作为世界上人口最多的发展中国家，一直是全球减贫事业的积极倡导者和有力推动者。中国坚决打赢精准脱贫攻坚战，率先实现《联合国2030年可持续发展议程》减贫目标，为全球减贫事业作出重要贡献。
