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spared no effort to provide rescue and relief to disaster victims and make

appropriate arrangements for them, thus protecting people’s lives and property
and ensuring their basic living needs.
3. We made decisive progress in the three critical battles against poverty,
pollution and potential risk, achieving major targets and tasks as planned.

We increased funding for poverty alleviation by a considerable sum. Counties
and villages facing difficulty in poverty eradication were placed under special
supervision to see they fully implemented all assistance and support policies. We
assisted on a priority basis poor workers in securing jobs and poor rural migrant

workers who had returned home in finding new jobs, thus keeping rural residents’
incomes from nonagricultural work stable. We worked harder to reduce poverty
through the development of local industries and promote consumer spending on
products from poor areas. We strengthened monitoring for groups who are liable
to return to, or fall into, poverty, and provided them with assistance.

All remaining poor rural residents, totaling 5.51 million in early 2020, were
lifted from poverty, as were all of China’s remaining 52 poor counties.
We continued working to keep our skies blue, our waters clear, and our lands

pollution-free, and accomplished the objectives for pollution prevention and
control for the current stage. We carried out major projects for protecting and
restoring key ecosystems in the Yangtze River and Yellow River basins and along
coastlines, and stepped up our ecological conservation endeavors.
We took prudent steps to defuse local government debt risks and acted swiftly

to defuse a number of major financial risks and potential dangers.
4. We continued to advance reform and opening up and further boosted the
vitality and momentum of development.
We improved the systems and mechanisms for the market allocation of

production factors and strengthened the protection of property rights. We
furthered reforms to streamline administration and delegate power, improve
regulation, and upgrade services; and the Regulations on Improving the Business
Environment were implemented. We adopted a three-year action plan for SOE

reform and supported the development of private businesses. The underlying
systems of the capital market were improved. We made solid strides in reforms
related to agriculture, rural development, and social programs.
Steady progress was achieved in the joint pursuit of the Belt and Road

Initiative (BRI). Major measures to develop the Hainan Free Trade Port and other

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