POVERTY REDUCTION BRIEFING
2014.No.14（21-30 June，2014）

1. China’s President Xi Jinping gave important instructions on accelerating the development of vocational education at the National Work Conference on Vocational Education held in Beijing on June 23rd and 24th. President Xi pointed out that the government should give more support to vocational education in rural areas, ethnic minority areas and poverty-stricken areas, enabling everyone to enjoy a brilliant life.
Source: www.chinanews.com 23-06-2014
2. On June 25th Premier Li Keqiang held the executive meeting of the State Council which instructed to guide some industries in the eastern region to transfer to the central and western regions in an orderly way. This policy is important for promoting gradient, joint and coordinated regional development, driving new urbanization in the central and western regions, helping the poor areas to become rich, creating more space for poverty-stricken regions’ employment and development and spurring economic development in backward areas in the central and western regions.
Source: www.chinanews.com 26-06-2014
3. Liu Yongfu: building “pipelines” for targeted poverty alleviation. Liu Yongfu, director of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, said that based on the central government’s requirements, the poverty alleviation office would strengthen its inspection of and guidance for the local government to send working teams stationed in villages and help alleviate poverty, so as to gradually solve existing problems and improve the assistance mechanism. Poverty alleviation in villages will be more effective by deepening the understanding, clarifying basic requirements on working teams stationed in villages, doing a better job in selecting carders stationed in villages and establishing and further improving the training, incentive, appraisal and guarantee mechanisms for those carders.
Source: People’s Daily 24-06-2014
4. Jiang Xiaohua, party member and head of the Department of Planning and Finance of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, investigated and supervised Hunan Province’s implementation of the No.25 Document released by the Central Office of the CPC Central Committee. Jiang and his group inspected the main poverty reduction measures, the progress of establishing files for impoverished people and the implementation of assistance mechanism. They also listened to local people’s suggestions on reforming related mechanisms in poor counties, implementing the “Rain and Dew Plan”, providing micro-credit for poverty reduction and carrying out poverty alleviation through relocation.
Source:www.cpad.gov.cn 25-06-2014
5. Xinjiang invested 22.5 million yuan as a special fund to support industrial projects that help to improve people’s livelihood. 172 industrial projects, including 169 gratuitous funding projects and 3 discounted loan projects will be supported by the special fund. The top three prefectures with the most projects supported by the special fund are Yili Prefecture, 47 projects, Changji Prefecture, 26 projects and Turpan Prefecture, 21 projects.
Source: www.people.com.cn 24-06-2014
6. Chongqing Municipality introduced a policy to subsidize teachers in poverty-stricken villages and in rural primary schools and teaching schools of some non-impoverished areas. It is said that this policy will benefit 91,700 rural teachers altogether in Chongqing. Each teacher in poverty-stricken areas will be subsidized 200 to 600 yuan per month and teachers in other areas will be subsidized 200 to 400 yuan.
Source: www.jyb.com.cn 24-06-2014
7. Hubei Province strengthened performance-oriented poverty alleviation fund management. The Hubei Province forum of State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development pointed out that the newly revised and introduced Regulation on Hubei Province’s Special Financial Poverty Alleviation Fund mainly strengthened the performance appraisal and outcome orientation of poverty alleviation fund to achieve scientific and standardized fund management.
Source: Hubei Daily 25-06-2014
8. Guangxi Autonomous Region will integrate the fund of 600 million yuan from both the central government and the autonomous region to alleviate poverty through relocation. According to the statistics, by 2013 Guangxi still had 6.34 million people living under the poverty line. Besides, most poverty-stricken areas are restricted development zones and key ecological function areas. Many villages are scattered. Therefore, carrying out poverty alleviation through relocation in light of local conditions can not only protect the ecological environment but also reduce poverty alleviation costs. It is even more conducive to the long-term development of poverty-stricken households.
Source: www.chinajsb.cn 25-06-2014
9. In order to strengthen alleviate poverty through improving transportation, Gansu Province plans to invest 35 billion yuan to build 50,000 kilometers of asphalt (cement) road in its administrative villages in five years. At present, asphalt (cement) road is still not available in 7,083 administrative villages in Gansu, which, determined by the province, will have been completely changed by 2018.
Source: gsrb.gansudaily.com.cn 24-06-2014
10. Chongqing Municipality introduced 15 policies and measures to help poor college graduates find jobs and start businesses. These policy measures are well designed to enhance poor college graduates’ employment capabilities, create more jobs, assist these graduates in starting businesses and optimize public services. It is predicted that this policy will benefit about 2,700 poor college graduates this year.
Source: www.cqrb.cn 26-06-2014
Organizer: Beijing Normal University China Poverty Reduction Research Center