China has combined long-term planning, targeted assistance and grassroots mobilization to lift nearly 100 million rural residents out of poverty while building mechanisms to consolidate those gains and support sustained development in formerly impoverished areas, experts have noted.
The experts were responding at the Linjia No. 7 Salon in Beijing to a question on how China works to prevent people from slipping back into poverty.
The event was held under the theme "The 105th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China: History, Experience, and Global Contributions".
By the end of 2020, China had lifted the 98.99 million rural residents living below the current poverty line out of poverty and removed all 832 impoverished counties and 128,000 villages from the national poverty list, marking the elimination of regional poverty nationwide.
Zhang Shiyi, former director of the Sixth Research Department of the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee, said long-term planning and policy continuity were key to consolidating China's poverty alleviation gains.
