Realizing China Vision: Achievements since 19th CPC National Congress

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The CPC's 19th National Congress last October laid out a new vision for China over the next five years. Let's take a look now at what has been achieved on the path towards those goals.

General Secretary Xi Jinping highlighted "targeted poverty alleviation" at the CPC National Congress last year.

XI JINPING GENERAL SECRETARY, CPC CENTRAL COMMITTEE "Ensuring that poor people and poor areas will enter the moderately prosperous society together with the rest of the country is a solemn promise made by our Party. We must mobilize the energies of our whole Party, our whole country, and our whole society, and continue to implement targeted poverty reduction and alleviation measures."

The General Secretary kept his promise, and went to visit impoverished villagers in Daliang Mountain in southwest China in his Lunar New Year inspection tour, a custom he has kept for the past six years.

Xi stressed the importance of increasing confidence and access to education for people to lift themselves out of poverty. He said grassroots Party branches should be strengthened and genuine results should be delivered.

The aim is to eliminate absolute poverty by 2020. China's poverty rate has dropped from 10.2 percent to 3.1 percent after millions of people were lifted out of poverty from 2012 to 2017.

Economic goals and guidance were also laid out at the 19th CPC National Congress.

XI JINPING GENERAL SECRETARY, CPC CENTRAL COMMITTEE "It is imperative that we develop a modernized economy. This is both an urgent requirement for getting us smoothly through this critical transition and a strategic goal for China's development. We must put quality first and give priority to achievement."

Statistics suggest that positive conditions exist for high-quality development. China's registered 6.9% GDP growth in 2017, the first reverse of a downward trend in economic growth since 2011.

On party governance, no one is to be exempt from supervision.

XI JINPING GENERAL SECRETARY, CPC CENTRAL COMMITTEE "To have the courage to reform itself and strictly govern itself: this is the most distinctive aspect of our Party's character. We must focus on oversight over the "key few", by which we mean leading officials.

Since the 19th CPC National Congress, ten officials at provincial and ministerial levels have fallen in the ongoing anti-corruption campaign.

In March, the National People's Congress passed a new supervision law and approved the creation of supervisory commissions at the national, provincial, city and county levels.

The Communist Party of China has announced in June that its Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission would jointly establish discipline inspection and supervision teams.