Poverty rate higher in ethnic minority areas (2)

China last year raised its national poverty threshold for farmers to 2,300 yuan (365.6 U.S. dollars) in annual net income from the previous 1,274 yuan set in 2010, including more people into the government's poverty alleviation projects.

Under the new threshold standard, China last year had 122 million people eligible for government anti-poverty subsidies, or 12.7 percent of the rural population.

Ethnic minority regions are still the crucial and most challenging parts in the country's poverty alleviation, the commission said.

Anti-poverty efforts in ethnic minority areas of the country's southwestern regions are even more arduous, it added.

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