As more provinces put emphasis on poverty alleviation in their recently-concluded annual legislative sessions, about 11 Chinese provinces have vowed to lift over 1 million people out of poverty respectively in 2016, chinanews.com reported Friday.

Among the 30 Chinese provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions recently holding their sessions, 23 provinces gave a concrete number on poverty alleviation tasks in their government work reports.

The 11 provinces and regions aiming to relieve over 1 million impoverished people include Hebei, Shandong, Hubei, Henan, Shaanxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Gansu, Yunnan provinces and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

The northwestern province Shaanxi, for example, promised to lift 1.3 million people out of poverty, while Hubei, a province in the central reach of the Yangtze River, set a goal to relieve 1.47 million documented impoverished people.

Some provinces even detailed their poverty relief target by county-level. For example, Guizhou province in southwest China pledged to remove the poverty labels from 8 counties, 120 towns and 2,000 villages. Some also raised their income threshold.

The poverty alleviation goals for 2016-2020 have been written in the local government reports by many provinces as well. Gansu, one of the western provinces, will strive for yearly poverty alleviation of 1 million people from 2016 to 2017.

Many provinces plan to lift more people out of poverty by improving eco-compensation, relocating, medical care and education as well as social security.

When making the plans, local governments have taken also their geographical and other advantages into consideration.