改革开放40年来，中国取得了举世瞩目的减贫成就，按照2010年的贫困线估计，中国的农村贫困人口从1978年的77亿人减少到2017年底的3 046万人，累计减贫约74亿人，贫困发生率从1978年的975%下降为2017年底的31%。中国取得如此大规模减贫成就是高速经济增长和扶贫开发共同作用的结果，而中国在多个方面的制度优势是大规模减贫的坚实基础和根本保障。未来三年，中国仍然需要采取更有针对性的措施，解决深度贫困地区和特殊贫困人群的贫困问题，从而实现到2020年消除现有标准下绝对贫困的目标，打赢脱贫攻坚战。

During the past 40 years of reform and opening up, China has made remarkable achievements in poverty alleviation. Chinas poor population has decreased from 770 million in 1978 to 3046 million at the end of 2017. The cumulative poverty reduction involves a total of 740 million people. The incidence of poverty fell from 97.5% in 1978 to 3.1% at the end of 2017. Such a largescale poverty reduction achievement in China is the result of the combined effects of both rapid economic growth and poverty alleviation. Moreover, Chinas institutional advantages have laid a solid foundation for fast and sustained poverty reduction. In the following three years, China still has to adopt more targeted measures to fight against poverty in extremely poor areas and with poor people with special difficulties. The objective is to lift all poor people out of poverty by 2020.