The Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council has released a guideline on winning the battle against poverty in the next three years to prepare the nation for eradicating poverty by 2020. The guideline contains a series of targets and promises. Let's have a look.

General goal

---- Poverty relief standards

Poor population should be guaranteed food and clothing and children from poor families should be guaranteed nine-year compulsory education. Basic medical needs and living conditions of poor population should also be guaranteed.

---- 30m people to be lifted out of poverty in 3 years

It is an arduous task to lift a further 30 million people out of poverty in the next three years. Among these people are those who are ill or suffer from handicaps.

By 2020, all rural residents below current poverty standards should be lifted out of poverty, and absolute poverty will be eliminated. All poverty-stricken counties will shake off poverty.

The average disposable income per capita of rural residents in poverty-stricken regions should increase faster than the national average. Major indicators of basic public services in poverty-stricken regions should be close to the national average.