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title: "Targeted Poverty Alleviation strategy — Definition & Meaning"
description: "Targeted Poverty Alleviation is China's approach to eradicate rural poverty by customizing aid for individual households, introduced by Xi Jinping in 2013."
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Model Diplomat Research Team · Last reviewed June 22, 2026

TL;DR

- Targeted Poverty Alleviation (精准扶贫) is China's policy of identifying poor households individually and applying tailored measures to eliminate absolute rural poverty.
- Where and when did Xi Jinping first articulate the targeted poverty alleviation concept?
- What are the 'six precisions' and 'five batches' of the strategy?
- When did China declare victory and what followed the strategy?
- How should Shenlun candidates frame this theme?

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Targeted Poverty Alleviation (精准扶贫) is China's policy of identifying poor households individually and applying tailored measures to eliminate absolute rural poverty.

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1. 25 February 2021

   By the official assessment announced on , China declared "complete victory" in the battle against poverty, stating that all 832 registered poor counties had…

2. 1 June 2021

   The policy then transitioned, under the Rural Revitalization Promotion Law (乡村振兴促进法, effective ), into a five-year consolidation period guarding against larg…

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During his November 2013 visit to Shibadong village in Hunan, Xi Jinping first used the term "targeted poverty alleviation," a phrase that became the framework for China's declared poverty-elimination victory announced on 25 February 2021.

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