Efforts ramped up to avoid poverty resurgence

China has prevented people from falling back into poverty through its efforts to consolidate poverty alleviation outcomes amid rural vitalization efforts, a senior agricultural official said on Monday.

After declaring victory over absolute poverty in 2021, the country set up a five-year transitional period and established a long-term monitoring and assistance mechanism to prevent people from slipping back into poverty.

A total of 5.34 million monitored individuals at risk of falling back into poverty have been stably lifted out of it. All 832 counties removed from the poverty list have developed two or three leading industries, with a combined output value exceeding 1.7 trillion yuan ($233.5 billion), Vice-Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Zhang Xingwang said at a news conference on Monday.