To achieve the target, China needs to bring more than 10 million people out of poverty every year, meaning nearly one million people per month or 20 people per minute

Winston Peters, the party chief of the New Zealand First Party, however, refused to say which party he would side with

"We hope the Congolese enterprises and Chinese enterprises will form a sound cooperation partnership," she said

China will work with Cambodia to implement the important consensus reached by President Xi Jinping and Hun Sen, and to consolidate mutual political trust and comprehensively deepen strategic cooperation, he said

Abe last dissolved the lower house of parliament in November 2014 and thereafter led the ruling coalition to a sweeping victory in the following election in December