President Xi Jinping has urged all-out efforts to win the tough battle against poverty and make new progress in the process of building a moderately prosperous society.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remark on Monday in an instruction regarding the fourth National Poverty Relief Day on Oct 17.

Xi said helping people get out of poverty and pursue happiness is the ultimate goal of the Party's efforts to push forward development. The CPC Central Committee made the solemn promise at the Party's 18th National Congress five years ago to lift all of China's impoverished people out of poverty by 2020, he said.