Liu Yongfu, head of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, said: "We need to complete the task of poverty alleviation and guarantee the quality. We should not only just win such a battle in the first phase, for the second phase starting from 2020 we should still keep on working on poverty alleviation." Liu made the remarks at a press conference during the first session of the 13th National People’s Congress.