Xi: CPC leadership key to China's poverty alleviation

The leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is the strong political and organizational guarantee for China's poverty alleviation achievements, Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday.

Xi made the remarks in his speech at a national commendation conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to honor contributors to the country's poverty alleviation work.

China sent elite forces from the Party to the main battlefield to fight poverty, Xi said. The country has selected and dispatched a total of 255,000 village-based working teams, more than 3 million first secretaries of CPC village committees and village-based poverty alleviation cadres, who fought on the frontline of poverty alleviation together with millions of local officials.