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  Parliament Times March 16, 2017	International News Leave a comment 314 Views
  By Ji Peijuan, Zhang Cong from People's Daily
  BEIJING: Food and clothing shortages must be solved to alleviate poverty, a Chinese official pledged recently, in China's latest vow to get tough in war on poverty.
  China's 2017 government work report requires local authorities to effectively implement an accountability system and apply the strictest assessment for poverty alleviation. In the report, the Chinese government also promises stern punishments against deception, falsification, and manipulation of statistics, so as to ensure the policies can really benefit the public and withstand the test of history.
  Liu cited an example to introduce the stricter assessments and higher threshold. "An average annual income of 5,000 yuan ($723) is not enough for a family who has college students, given that the yearly cost of university education rises to 20,000 to 30,000 yuan," Liu explained.
  In addition, over 90 percent of surveyed local residents recognized local governments' efforts to wipe out poverty, Liu said, adding that such cases can be verified.