改革农村体制，实施开发扶贫（1978—2011）

Part II Rural Reform and Poverty Alleviation Through Development（1978—2011）

1978年12月，中国共产党十一届三中全会在北京召开，会议作出实行改革开放的重大决策。改革开放以来，中国政府实施以解决农村贫困人口温饱问题为主要目标的有计划、有组织、大规模的扶贫开发，贫困人口大幅减少，群众生活水平显著提高，贫困地区面貌发生了翻天覆地的变化。

The Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China convened in Beijing in 1978. During the meeting, China’s policymakers decided to implement the reform and opening-up policy. Since then, the Chinese government has carried out planned, organized and large-scale poverty reduction efforts to address the problem of food and clothing for impoverished rural people. Thanks to those efforts, poverty-stricken areas witnessed earthshaking changes, with marked reduction of population living in destitution and improvement of people’s living standard. China has explored its own way of eliminating poverty and laid a solid foundation for comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society.