BEIJING, March 30 (Xinhua) -- China still faces arduous tasks and challenges in its poverty alleviation campaign, and more hard endeavors should be made to fight this battle, the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau said in a statement.

The statement was issued after Friday's meeting of the political bureau on China's poverty reduction work, which was presided over by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.