Landscaping workers carry a camphor tree to the planting site at Jiangsu Sci-Tech Garden of Chinese Medicine in Dasi town in Taizhou in Jiangsu province, on July 3, 2014. [Photo by Dong Jie/China Daily]

After the onset of the COVID-19, President Xi Jinping gave instructions to ensure that not a single person gets left behind in the transition to a moderately prosperous society. Winning the battle against poverty is a key task in achieving that.

Noting that there are still some areas of weakness in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects that need to be strengthened with prompt action, China calls for targeted measures to do away with them.

Criterion for a moderately prosperous society in all respects should include not only quantitative indicators but also careful assessment of people's actual living standards and sense of fulfillment.