Battle against poverty

The battle against poverty was a policy and campaign of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party to fight poverty.

The campaign was first proposed by CCP general secretaryXi Jinping, who said China still had tens of millions of people that did not escape poverty. It began at the fifth plenary session of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party at the end of October 2015 and was incorporated to the 13th Five-Year Plan in 2016. It aimed to solve the core problems of poor areas and poor people through targeted poverty alleviation within five years before the end of 2020. The campaign concluded with the National Poverty Alleviation Summary and Commendation Conference in 2021.