Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that his country has completely defeated extreme poverty, noting that it has invested in the fight against poverty over the past eight years, the equivalent of about $ 246 billion.

He pointed out that 98.99 million rural residents crossed the poverty line, 832 counties and 128 thousand villages were lifted from poor areas, and the country has invested about 1.6 trillion yuan in fighting poverty over the past eight years, equivalent to about 246 billion dollars.