Beijing: China will continue to enhance its support policies for low-income residents and underdeveloped areas, extending beyond the end of the current five-year transition period. This period was initially dedicated to consolidating achievements in poverty alleviation and integrating them with rural revitalization.

According to Namibia Press Agency, Han Wenxiu, the executive deputy director of the Office of the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs, emphasized at a press conference that maintaining the bottom line to prevent a large-scale lapse or relapse into poverty is a continuous task beyond 2025-the final year of the transition period. Han stated, "The bottom line must be upheld persistently and permanently after the transition period."

The recent "No. 1 central document" issued for 2025, and unveiled on Sunday, marks the first policy statement from China's central authorities this year. It underscores the need to establish a mechanism to prevent poverty relapse and to develop a categorized assistance system for low-income residents and underdeveloped rural regions.

China is currently undertaking a comprehensive evaluation of the five-year transition period. Han noted that based on the evaluation's findings, support policies will be categorized, optimized, and improved to better serve the targeted populations.

For low-income rural populations, China plans to enhance social assistance as a safety net, focusing on stimulating internal motivation within these groups. Meanwhile, for underdeveloped rural regions, the country will implement targeted policy support, emphasizing their revitalization and development.

Differentiated assistance will be facilitated through mechanisms like collaboration between eastern and western regions and targeted assistance. This approach aims to help these regions gradually catch up in the modernization process.