POVERTY REDUCTION BRIEFING
2014.No.08（01-10 April，2014）

1. The second phase of China Medical Assistance Project for Poverty Alleviation will be officially launched on April 3, 2014. This time, the project will particularly offer assistance to 1,000 patients diagnosed with tumor, diabetes and liver complaints who may apply for medical aid from now on. The exact amount of aid depends on how much the patients pay their own expense and how much the special fund can offer, with a minimum amount of RMB 1,000.
Source: Xinhuanet.com,02-04-2014

2. Inner Mongolia will extensively launch the Precise Poverty-Alleviation Project of “Bringing Benefits to Individual Villages and Families”. Inner Mongolia will fully initiate the poverty-alleviation project of “bringing benefits to individual villages and families” in three specific dimensions, which brings plans, projects as well as cadres within reach of each village and family. The precise assisting work will be carried out in 2,834 poor villages. In 2014, Inner Mongolia will strive to lift 400,000 people out of poverty and ensure a 15% increase in poor people’s annual per capita income.
Source: xinhuanet.com, 05-04-2014

3. China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA) convened the 2013 Meeting of Donators. CEPA serves as the most influential organization regard to poverty alleviation and on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. The meeting it convened comprehensively presented China’s charitable poverty alleviation and honored those charity organizations, enterprises and individuals who have all the way been committed to philanthropy.
Source：Southern Daily ,04-04-2014

4. Gansu carries out reform on the management of special financial funds for poverty alleviation, which aims at simplifying the project approval process and fund appropriation process by delegating the project approval power down to each county. In line with specific national and provincial policies and requirements, Gansu Province will appropriate all funds to each county according to the needs of different projects. The projects will be examined and approved in the counties before submitting to provincial or municipal organizations for further reviewing and recording.
Source: Gansu Daily ,04-04-2014

5. Shaanxi Province has steadily pushed forward its efforts in disaster forecasting, poverty alleviation and residents relocation. On 2 April, 2014, the video conference on residents relocation in Gansu was convened. It was reported that in 2013, the poverty-relief migration and relocation project was intended to migrate 60,000 residents from 16,000 families, to relocate 4,000 residents from 1,000 families and to establish 61 concentrated relocation spots in Northern Shaanxi.
Source: Shaanxi Daily ,03-04-2014

6. The poverty-alleviation fund guaranteed loans were introduced in Mayang, Hunan. The policy was targeted at developing “One Village One Product” by making full use of poverty-alleviation fund guaranteed loans through launching industrial poverty-relief pilot projects that integrate poverty-alleviation funds, bank loans, collaborative enterprises and individuals into one. In 2014, among all the villages, Mayang selected ten as pilots in its first industrial poverty-alleviation project. Together they could raise guaranty money of more than 2 million yuan, which enables them to take a loan of over 1 million yuan from the bank to invest in alleviating and developing poor conditions in rural areas.
Source: Hunan Daily ,05-04-2014

7. The impoverished population has reduced 270,000 since the 12th Five-Year Plan in Shiyan, Hubei. Seizing new opportunities to improve living conditions for the poor, taking poverty-stricken areas as primary battlefields, fueled by institutional and mechanical innovations and focusing on five key aspects including infrastructure construction, industrial development, social undertakings, ecological construction and supporting the poor through technology and science, Shiyan concentrated all human resources, financial resources and material resources to carry out poverty-relief work and to overcome hardships, resulting in 270,000 less in the total number of poor population. In 2013, the city’s per capita net income of farmers reached 5,226 yuan, increased by 1,727 yuan compared with that in 2010.
Source: Shiyan Daily ,05-04-2014

8. Asian Development Bank (ADB) suggested increasing public investment to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor. ADB’s Asian Development Outlook 2014 pointed out that the ever widening income gap was damaging the decades of efforts of developing countries in Asia to eliminate poverty and the international experience has proved to us that more investment in public service will improve the income inequality, for example, the government should increase national spending on education and health care.
Source: Caixin.com ,01-04-2014

Organizer: Beijing Normal University China Poverty Reduction Research Center