A delegate to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has spoken highly of the Party's work to improve conditions in rural areas across China.

Shi Jintong, Party chief of Shibadong Village in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in central China's Hunan Province, said his village had benefited a great deal from the nationwide poverty alleviation campaign.

Shi said many young people returned from big cities to the village after it saw "earthshaking changes" thanks to a strategy called targeted poverty alleviation.