底线任务
中共十八大以来，习近平多次强调，要善于运用底线思维的方法。底线思维是以底线为导向的一种思维方法和心态，要求不回避矛盾，不掩盖不足，客观分析每个可能出现的问题，并妥善加以解决。
这一思维方法也体现在习近平关于扶贫工作的重要论述之中。他指出，农村贫困人口如期脱贫、贫困县全部摘帽、解决区域性整体贫困，是全面建成小康社会的底线任务，是中国共产党作出的庄严承诺。没有农村贫困人口全部脱贫，就没有全面建成小康社会，这个底线任务不能打任何折扣，党向人民作出的承诺不能打任何折扣。
中共十八大以来，中共中央把贫困人口脱贫作为全面建成小康社会的底线任务和标志性指标，在全国范围全面打响了脱贫攻坚战。脱贫攻坚作为“底线任务”，不仅意味着要保质（“两不愁三保障”）保量（农村贫困人口全部脱贫）完成，还意味着脱贫攻坚作为全面建成小康社会“补短板”的关键任务，必须如期完成。
Bottom-Line Tasks for Achieving Moderate Prosperity
"Bottom-line thinking" is a way of thinking based on objective analysis of problems for proper solution, rather than blinding oneself to them or ignoring potential risks.
Xi advocates such an approach to poverty alleviation. He calls the goals of China's poverty elimination - to help the rural population eliminate poverty as scheduled, lift all poor counties out of poverty and solve overall regional poverty - "a bottom-line task" in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects. It is also a solemn promise made by the Party. China cannot say that it has achieved this objective if its rural poor have not all been lifted out of poverty. This task must be fulfilled to the letter, and the Party's promise to the people must be honored in full.
Since 2012, the CPC Central Committee has taken this task as a symbol of building China into a society of moderate prosperity. It must be fulfilled as scheduled both in "quality" (assuring those living in poverty of adequate food and clothing and guaranteeing their access to compulsory education, basic medical services and safe housing) and in "quantity" (lifting all out of poverty).