to be lifted out of poverty by 2020. Those left behind will face the most difficulty getting over the poverty line. Many live in very remote areas, which lack the resources needed to develop. These people will need to be relocated. Between 2016 and 2020, the government plans to relocate 9.8 million people, most of them from western provinces. Some are disabled or seriously ill and rely solely on government allowances. Political actors and structures Xi Jinping Poverty alleviation has been one of Xi Jinping‘s priorities. The ruling Communist Party of China, led by General Secretary Xi, set 2020 as the year that the country should wipe out poverty and become a moderately prosperous society or “Xiaokang“ Xi said "no one should be left behind on the road towards Xiaokang.” China's official media reports that state Xi has toured dozens of impoverished villages since he took office as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (paramount leader) in 2012, “sharing his rich experience in poverty-eradication work and putting himself on the front lines of the war on poverty.” In November 2013, he paid an inspection visit to Xiangxi, Hunan province in central China. During his tour to Shibadong village in Xiangxi, Xi asked the local government to take measures to “keep track of every household and individual in poverty to verify that their treatment is having the desired effect." Party-state institutions The Party-state's poverty alleviation strategy is implemented on all administrative levels. At the central level, it is led by two main institutional bodies: the State Council's Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation and Development (国务院扶贫开发领导小组 guó wù yuàn fú pín kāi fā lǐng dǎo xiǎo zǔ) led by PRC Vice Premier Hu Chunhua represents the main state institution mandated with poverty alleviation. Within the structures of the Communist Party of China, there exists an additional Central Leading Small Group for Rural Work (中央农村工作领导小组 zhōng yāng nóng cūn gōng zuò lǐng dǎo xiǎo zǔ) that also oversees poverty alleviation in the Chinese countryside. This group is led by PRC Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Han Changfu. 1. The two leading groups have their counterparts at all administrative levels down to the township level. State mechanisms of policy implementation The PRC uses several mechanisms in order to implement the centralized poverty alleviation strategy effectively. Vertical political integration - tiao tiao (条条) and horizontal political integration - kuai kuai (块块) Vertical