Students from a mountainous area in Southwest China's Yunnan province played at their newly-finished school on May 28, 2020. [Photo/IC]

Statistics from the Ministry of Education show that since 2012, a total of 5.14 million students in China that are from impoverished families have attended colleges and universities, Xinhua News Agency reported on March 31.

Popularizing high-quality education to remote and impoverished areas has been one of China's basic solutions to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty and to achieve prosperity.

To achieve this goal, China has carried out educational support in aspects including setting up a complete financial aid system to students from impoverished families, placing emphasis on vocational and adult education, as well as encouraging higher learning institutions and vocational colleges to develop industries to help alleviate poverty.

By 2020, the net enrollment rate of students attending the nine-year compulsory education program in impoverished counties in China reached 94.8 percent, almost 5 percentage points higher than that in 2015. Only 682 students of the country's total 145 million students of compulsory education age dropped out of school.

China has achieved the poverty reduction goals set out by the United Nations in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 10 years ahead of schedule.