TAIYUAN -- North China's Shanxi province plans to lift 26 counties out of poverty this year, authorities said Friday.Around 610,000 residents are expected to be lifted out off poverty in 2018, or 87 percent of Shanxi's current poor population, said an official with the provincial poverty alleviation office.As one of the poorest provinces in China, Shanxi had a poverty rate of 5.94 percent by 2016, 1.44 percentage points higher than the national average.Last year, 740,000 people were lifted out of poverty, lowering the poverty rate to below 4 percent, according to the official.China plans to eradicate poverty by 2020.The country lifted 12.89 million rural people out of poverty in 2017, with the poverty rate declining to 3.1 percent at the end of last year from 4.5 percent a year earlier. wristbands canadacustom silicone bracelets canadarubber bracelets canadasilicone bracelets canadasilicone wristbands canadacustom wristbands canadacanadian wristbandswristbands canada
Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman of Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council. [Photo/Chinanews.com] A mainland spokesman for Taiwan affairs said the island's leader Tsai Ing-wen's speech on Wednesday showed the sinister intention to cooperate with anti-China forces in the West to curtain the mainland. Ma Xiaoguang, spokesman with the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said that Tsai's speech, which was full of separatist remarks and an anti-mainland mindset, will further worsen cross-Straits relations and will bring Taiwan into a more dangerous situation. The pro-independence of Tsai's remarks, according to Ma, shows her sinister intention to help suppress the Chinese mainland with anti-China forces in the West. In her speech, Tsai said that the mainland has stepped up military threats and diplomatic suppression to the island. She said that the island's security will be strengthened to cope with increasing threats from the mainland.
