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For the past decade, CPI increases in China have been kept at a comparatively
low level of around 2 percent. The difficulty of such an achievement should not be

underestimated. This has been conducive to maintaining the order of the market
economy, to creating leeway for macro policy implementation, and most
importantly, to better meeting the basic living needs of our people.
2. We secured victory in the critical battle against poverty within the set time
frame and consolidated and built on our gains in poverty alleviation.

The hardest, most arduous tasks in building a moderately prosperous society
in all respects were in rural areas and in impoverished regions in particular. We
carried out a policy of targeted poverty alleviation, with a focus on deeply
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impoverished areas such as the three regions and the three prefectures.
We weighted policy support toward these areas, provided funding for poverty
alleviation efforts on a priority basis, and placed counties and villages facing
difficulty in poverty alleviation under special supervision to ensure that they met
poverty alleviation targets.

We provided assistance to develop local industries and boost employment,
ecological conservation, education, healthcare, social security and other fields of
endeavor, strengthened follow-up support for people relocated from inhospitable
areas, and made major efforts to meet the basic food and clothing needs of poor

people and see that they had access to compulsory education, basic medical
services, and safe housing and drinking water.
Rural residents in impoverished regions saw their incomes grow by a
significant margin, and their working and living conditions noticeably improved.

We worked both to consolidate and build on our achievements in poverty
alleviation and to promote the revitalization of rural areas. Major poverty relief
policies remained largely unchanged during the transition period following the
elimination of absolute poverty. We made sure that though poverty had been

eliminated, all of the related responsibilities, policies, support, and oversight
remained in place.
We established effective monitoring and assistance mechanisms to prevent
people lifted out of poverty from relapsing into poverty and took robust action in
response to natural disasters and Covid-19 to forestall any large-scale relapse into

poverty.

 The three regions refer to Tibet, the four southern Xinjiang prefectures of Hotan, Aksu, Kashi, and
Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture of Kizilsu, and the Tibetan ethnic areas in Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, and
Qinghai provinces. The three prefectures are Liangshan in Sichuan, Nujiang in Yunnan, and Linxia in Gansu.
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