Inner Mongolia lifts 141,000 out of poverty in 2019

Farmers make brooms at a workshop in Lindong Township of Balin Left Banner in Chifeng City, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Aug. 5, 2019. (Xinhua/Peng Yuan)

The poverty-stricken population has been reduced to just 16,000 from 2013's 1.57 million in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

A total of 141,000 people in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region shook off poverty last year, the regional government said Friday.

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 percent to 0.11 percent, according to official statistics.

Photo taken on Jan. 22, 2018 shows a general view of Lianxing Village of Wuyuan County, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Villagers of 457 families in Lianxing were relocated to new houses with photovoltaic (PV) equipments in 2015 with the help of government's poverty relief policy and PV enterprises. (Xinhua/Liu Lei)

Dilapidated houses of 8,073 households were renovated, and safe drinking water was secured for 46,817 rural residents in the region. About 124,900 people have been relocated to new homes.

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