Chinese leader announced victory over poverty

Speaking at the national wrap-up conference on the fight against poverty on February 25, Xi Jinping said that 98.9 million villagers and 128,000 villages have been lifted out of poverty and poverty by "the joint efforts of the party and the people" over the past eight years.

“All 832 poor counties and 128,000 poor villages were excluded from the list of beggars”, - Xinhua News Agency reported.

"The difficult task of eliminating poverty has been solved, the poverty issue has been fully resolved, poverty has been overcome on a regional scale", - Interfax quotes the statement of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Xi Jinping noted that it was possible to eliminate poverty in the country on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, which will be celebrated on July 23.

“Absolute poverty is over, another historical miracle has been accomplished!”, - Xi Jinping said, adding that this miracle “will step in history”.

He called the victory over poverty "the great glory of the Chinese people".

“This is the great glory of the Chinese Communist Party and the great glory of the Chinese nation”, - the head of the PRC said.