The top leadership of the Communist Party of China pledged on Monday to increase its efforts to eliminate poverty in rural areas and defeat regional poverty by 2020.

Hosted by President Xi Jinping, the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee decided to pull 50 million people out of poverty in five years through industry support, labor migration and education.

More than 20 million people who have lost or partially lost the capacity to work will be included in the rural subsistence allowance system.