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BEIJING, April 18-- During an inspection tour to southwest China's Chongqing Municipality this week, President Xi Jinping called for greater efforts to win the battle against poverty and realize the goal of building "a moderately prosperous society in all respects" as scheduled. As the deadline to eradicate absolute poverty approaches, the country is gathering strength to focus on the nation's poorest people, who mainly dwell in deep mountains with adverse natural environments and backward infrastructure, or have special needs. It was China's solemn promise to let poor people and poor areas enter the moderately prosperous society together with the rest of the country, Xi said in a letter to the International Forum on Reform and Opening Up and Poverty Reduction in China, which was held in Beijing last November. The country's poverty-reduction drive has been widely recognized as the largest such campaign in history, with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pointing out that China had contributed the most to world poverty alleviation in the past decade. Here are some facts on poverty reduction in China. PEOPLE FIRST With the world's largest population, China has been boosting its economic development on one major theme: improving people's livelihoods. This has become a fundamental goal and a consistent priority in policy-making. A typical example is the development blueprint for building a moderately prosperous society. | 
