Mongolia, on Friday, said that a total of 141,000 people in North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region shook off poverty in 2019, the regional government said.

 

According to the official statistics, the poverty-stricken population has been reduced to just 16,000 from 2013’s 1.57 million, with the poverty headcount ratio dropping from 11.7 per cent to 0.11 per cent.

 

Dilapidated houses of 8,073 households were renovated, and safe drinking water was secured for 46,817 rural residents in the region.

 

At least 124,900 people have been relocated to new homes.

 

The regional and local governments invested anti-poverty funds of about 9.9 billion yuan (or around 1.43 billion U.S. dollars) in 2019 and introduced over 8,000 industrial projects to enrich 1.15 million poor people.

 

 

NAN