President Xi Jinping urged all-out efforts to achieve the goal of eliminating poverty inChinawithin two years in his three-day inspection tour of Chongqing, which ended on Wednesday.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, presided over a meeting on Tuesday on guaranteeing the people's basic needs in food and clothing as well as access to education, medical care and safe housing.
Xi said food and clothing have been mostly guaranteed, while there remain some difficulties in access to education, medical care and safe housing.
Adding that poverty reduction work has entered a decisive stage, Xi instructed all departments to focus on the prominent problems of poverty alleviation and to make more contributions to building a moderately prosperous society in all respects.