File photo taken on March 6, 2017 shows that Wang Zhen (L) visits a chicken farm at a poverty-stricken family at Heping Village in Heping Township of Yuexi County, east China's Anhui Province. Wang Zhen from the Health and Family Planning Commission in Yuexi County was dispatched to Heping Village since October, 2014. She worked there as the first Party secretary for 3 years to take on poverty alleviation work. China is determined to build itself into a modern socialist country underpinned by fairness and justice through "targeted poverty alleviation that will take 43 million people out of poverty by 2020. The Communist Party of China has been encouraging and sending Party cadres and members with higher education and more experience to the grassroots organizations, especially in rural areas. Up till August, 2017, more than 195,000 first secretaries have been stationed in impoverished villages, while 775,000 Party cadres have been sent to assist their work. China has pledged to lift another 10 million people out of poverty in its rural areas in 2018. The ambitious call for action demonstrates the country's earnest efforts to eliminate poverty, after more than 68 million people have been lifted out of poverty over the past five years. Through nearly 40 years of reform and opening-up, against the existing rural poverty standards, China has lifted 700 million people out of poverty, accounting for over 70 percent of the global poverty reduction accomplishments. The successful achievements China has made in poverty alleviation have not only promoted the development of its own human rights endeavor, but also greatly contributed to that of the international community. (Xinhua/Liu Junxi)
