BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- China is going to incorporate more social sector services to assist the country's poverty alleviation campaign.
The services will include psychological counseling for the impoverished, special protections for left-behind rural children unaccompanied by their parents and guidance in readjusting for relocated people, according to a guideline jointly issued Friday by authorities of civil affairs, finance and poverty reduction.
The government should allocate more resources to train professionals and strengthen social organizations in poverty-stricken areas, the document said.
It also identified various pilot projects, such as pairing 300 leading social service organizations from developed regions with their counterparts in less-developed areas in the following three years.
China has set 2020 as the target to complete the building of a moderately prosperous society, which requires the eradication of poverty.
As of the end of 2016, there were still 43.35 million people in China living below the country's poverty line.
