Setting prosperity as a goal

Guest of honour: Xi (centre) visiting villagers of Huawu village, Xinren Miao township of Qianxi county, Bijie, Guizhou province. — Xinhua

BEIJING: President Xi Jinping said China has adopted a series of extraordinary policies and measures, blazing a poverty reduction path and forming an anti-poverty theory with Chinese characteristics.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks while addressing a gathering marking the country’s accomplishments in poverty eradication and commending role models in that cause.