Minister of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs Dao Ngoc Dung reports on the National Target Program for Poverty Reduction from 2021 to 2025 at the first session of the 15th National Assembly. Photo: VNA

The program aims to maintain the rate of poor households according to the multidimensional poverty line from 1% to 1.5% per year, reduce the rate of poor ethnic minority households over 3% per year and 30% of poor districts and 30% of extremely difficult communes in the lowlands, coastal areas and islands will escape poverty and extreme difficulties.

The rate of poor households in poor districts is set to reduce from 4 to 5% per year. By 2025, efforts will be made to reduce 1-2% of the number of poor and near-poor households compared to the period that began calculating the national multidimensional poverty line, according to the program.