China news agency, Beijing, February 25 -

Question: At this moment, the applause in the "history, science, love."

　　China News Agency reporter Liang Xiaohui

　　"Our country has achieved a total victory in the fight against poverty!"

　　On the 25th, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Chairman of the Central Military Commission, solemnly declared in the Great Hall of the People in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

At this moment, a long period of enthusiastic applause followed.

　　Behind this solemn announcement is that the 98.99 million rural poor under China’s current standards have all been lifted out of poverty, the overall regional poverty has been resolved, and the absolute poverty problem that has plagued the Chinese nation for thousands of years has been historically resolved.

　　Today, China held a grand commendation meeting for this purpose.

The applause in the Great Hall of Ten Thousands of People has become a meaningful background for this special historical moment.

On February 25, the National Poverty Alleviation Summary and Commendation Conference was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng

　　In the applause, there was a lament about this unusual history.

　　"Poverty is a chronic disease of human society. Anti-poverty has always been a major event in the governance of the country and the country in ancient and modern times." In his speech, Xi Jinping outlined the historical picture of China's poverty alleviation with a "big view of history".

　　Looking back on Chinese history, from Qu Yuan, Du Fu to Sun Yat-sen, from the founding of the Communist Party of China, the founding of the People’s Republic of China to the reform and opening up, and from the 18th to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping pointed out: “A history of China is a work of the Chinese nation with poverty. The history of struggle." Until today, China has successfully lifted out of poverty, Xi Jinping said: "This is the great glory of the Chinese people, the great glory of the Chinese Communist Party, and the great glory of the Chinese nation."

　　Getting rid of poverty has always been a prominent problem plaguing global development and governance.

For the world, China's poverty reduction population accounted for more than 70% of the global poverty reduction population during the same period, making a significant contribution to global poverty reduction.

Especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, an average of more than 10 million people have been lifted out of poverty each year, which is equivalent to the population of a medium-sized country.

　　"No country can lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in such a short period of time. This achievement belongs to China and the world." Xi Jinping said.

　　In the applause, there was resonance with the "anti-poverty theory with Chinese characteristics".

　　"Based on my country’s national conditions, we have grasped the laws of poverty reduction, introduced a series of extraordinary policy measures, built a set of effective policy systems, work systems, and institutional systems, embarked on a path of poverty reduction with Chinese characteristics, and formed a countermeasure against poverty with Chinese characteristics. Poverty theory." When Xi Jinping summarized his experience, he summarized this theory into seven "persistence."

At the scene, "poor people" from across the country expressed their sympathy with applause.

　　For example, uphold the party's leadership.

Xi Jinping pointed out that we have strengthened the working mechanism of central coordination, provincial responsibility, and city and county implementation, to build a situation where the five-level secretaries will help the poor and the whole party will mobilize to tackle tough problems.

　　For example, adhere to a targeted poverty alleviation strategy.

Xi Jinping said that we have always emphasized that precision is the most important thing in poverty alleviation and precision.

"Facts have fully proved that targeted poverty alleviation is a magic weapon to win the battle against poverty."

　　Amidst the applause, there was empathy for China's “poor people”.

　　Mao Xianglin, Bai Jingying, Liu Hu, Li Yu, Zhang Guimei, Zhao Yafu, Xia Sen, they are the national models of poverty alleviation.

At the scene, Xi Jinping presented them with medals, certificates and medals one by one.

　　When Zhang Guimei, who moved China's “Lan Deng Principal”, and nearly a hundred-year-old Xia Sen came to the center of the rostrum in a wheelchair, the applause was particularly warm.

They are the ultimate expression of China's poverty alleviation spirit.

Xi Jinping summed it up in 24 words: "The spirit is condensed in the fight against poverty, and the top and bottom are concentric, to fight hard, to be precise and pragmatic, to pioneer and to innovate, to overcome difficulties, and to live up to the people."

　　There was another scene at the conference that touched many people.

When Xi Jinping mentioned "Huang Wenxiu, who returned home to make contributions and compose the song of youth in the new era," the camera captured the red eyes of Huang Wenxiu's father who was sitting in the audience and almost shed tears.

　　After graduating from graduate school, Huang Wenxiu went to a remote and impoverished mountain village as the first secretary in the village.

In 2019, Huang Wenxiu was unfortunately killed in a flash flood and was only 30 years old...

　　"In the fight against poverty, more than 1,800 comrades have fixed their lives on the journey of poverty alleviation, vividly interpreting the original mission of the Communists. The dedication and contribution of the people who died in poverty alleviation is in the annals of history, and the party and people will not forget! The Republic does not I will forget!" Xi Jinping said emotionally.

　　However, China's success in poverty alleviation is not the end, but a new starting point.

"It is necessary to effectively consolidate and expand the results of poverty alleviation and effectively connect various tasks with rural revitalization, so as to make the foundation for poverty alleviation more stable and more sustainable." Xi Jinping said at the commendation meeting. We have no reason to be proud and complacent and rest on our feet. Go on, make persistent efforts, and continue to struggle.

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