Xi stresses difficulty, urgency of poverty alleviation

Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, talks with villagers and members of a local poverty alleviation team as he visits the home of an impoverished family in Sanhe Village of Sanchahe Township in Zhaojue County of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Feb. 11, 2018. Xi addressed a symposium on poverty alleviation in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, on Feb. 12. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)