This afternoon, the State Council ’s Joint Defense and Joint Control Mechanism held a press conference to introduce the situation of strengthening the assistance work for the rural poor.
At the meeting, Chen Hongbo, director of the Department of Policies and Regulations of the Poverty Alleviation Office of the State Council, said that as of the end of 2019, 93 million poor people have been lifted out of poverty, accounting for 97% of all poor people. Some of the poor people have returned to poverty for various reasons, which is an objective existence. Is normal. In recent years, the number of people returning to poverty has decreased year by year, which also reflects the improvement in the quality of poverty alleviation.