Farmers pick tea leaves in Jinhua village, Meitan county in Southwest China's Guizhou province, on July 25, 2019. Tea plantation, in addition to tourism, has helped villagers earn three times more than growing pepper, tomato and other crops. [Photo by Zeng Jia/For China Daily]

According to Ou Qingping, deputy head of the State Council Leading Group Office for Poverty Alleviation and Development, will focus its effort on supervising poverty alleviation work in the remaining 52 counties labeled as "impoverished" to ensure that all households in those areas are brought above the poverty threshold by the end of the year.

In these counties, about 1.2 million impoverished people have been relocated to more habitable locations and another 870,000 people who are at risk of returning to poverty have been offered targeted assistance, Ou said at a news conference in August.