President Xi Jinping chats with villagers in Qingshui Township of the city of Tengchong, Yunnan Province in southwest China, on January 19, 2020 (XINHUA)

"At its 18th National Congress in 2012, the CPC vowed to achieve moderate prosperity in all respects throughout the country. Accordingly, the CPC Central Committee has included development-driven poverty alleviation in the Five-sphere Integrated Plan and the Four-pronged Comprehensive Strategy, and made it one of the key tasks for realizing the First Centenary Goal."

From the speech at the Seminar on Targeted Poverty Elimination on February 12, 2018 

"We have produced a raft of major strategies for the fight against poverty on all fronts. This is a fight of unprecedented intensity, scale and influence. But we have made decisive progress, significantly improving the working and living conditions of poor areas and poor people, and in so doing we have written a new chapter in the history of the fight against poverty."

From the speech at the Seminar on Targeted Poverty Elimination on February 12, 2018 

"We uphold the strategy of targeted poverty alleviation to improve effectiveness. Targeted efforts are essential to fight against poverty."

From the speech at the Seminar on Targeted Poverty Elimination on February 12, 2018 

"We identify the targets of poverty alleviation, determine who will carry out the work and how they should do it, and make clear how to apply an exit mechanism for those who have emerged from poverty. We do not spray preferential policies indiscriminately or ‘kill fleas with a hand-grenade’. Instead, we adopt targeted measures for different villages, households and individuals according to their specific conditions, so that we can address the root causes of poverty."

From the speech at the Seminar on Targeted Poverty Elimination on February 12, 2018  

President Xi Jinping visits a tea plantation in Pingli County, Shaanxi Province in northwest China, on April 21, 2020 (XINHUA) 

"It is a basic requirement and core indicator in our poverty eradication effort that by 2020 we will succeed in delivering the Two Assurances and Three Guarantees* for impoverished rural residents. This is key to the success of the final stage of our fight against poverty."

From the speech at a seminar on pressing problems related to the Two Assurances and Three Guarantees on April 16, 2019 

"I have emphasized repeatedly that we should maintain the current poverty eradication standard, neither raising nor lowering it."

From the speech at a seminar on pressing problems related to the Two Assurances and Three Guarantees on April 16, 2019  

*This refers to assurances of adequate food and clothing, and guarantees of access to compulsory education, basic medical services and safe housing for impoverished rural residents.