China has identified 128,000 impoverished villages and 92 million people living in poverty, said a senior poverty alleviation official on December 6.
According to Liu Yongfu, head of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, poverty has declined substantially in China, but the country still has 832 poor counties and districts.
Approximately 116,600 work teams with 466,000 members in total have been dispatched to the villages for poverty alleviation, he told a seminar in central China's Hubei Province.
"Almost all underprivileged households have a government official responsible for poverty alleviation work," he said.
Li Jinzao, head of the China National Tourism Administration, said that the country has so far lifted more than 8 million people out of poverty by developing tourism.
To expand the safety net for those in poverty, the national poverty line was increased from 206 ($33.5) yuan in 1986 to 2,300 yuan ($374) per annum in 2011. |