1. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang chaired a State Council executive meeting where works on improving child development in poverty-stricken areas and better future for children in poor families were arranged. As was stressed in the meeting, direct government supply should be combined with purchase service, market forces should be given full play to, participation of different social sectors should be encouraged, health and education should be given priority, and children from rural poor families in extremely impoverished regions should have access to social care and security from birth to the end of the compulsory education period.
Source: snedu.gov.cn Nov. 21, 2014
2. Liu Yongfu, Minister of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development of China, led a group to Henan for investigation and survey. He pointed out thatthe government should take targeted measures for poverty reduction, choose the right program for assistance and poverty alleviation, and ensure that poverty alleviation reaches every poverty-stricken village and every villager. The government should prioritize the three brand projectsonpoverty reduction, improve shift-employment training as proposed in "Dew Plan", accelerate the relocation of poor population in mountainous areasand flood plain areas, and make innovations in updating the micro-finance subsidized-interest loan mechanism. The county-level party committees and governments should play an active role in overall planning and coordination. The integration of capital and projects from different industrial sectors should be intensified in the process of poverty alleviation by villages.
Source: cpad.gov.cn Nov. 24, 2014
3. By the end of October 2014, Yunnan Province had invested 4.12 billion yuan to improve planned construction of school buildings and facilities. In Yunnan, integrated projects and programs, optimizedprimary and secondary school layoutsand fully improved schooling conditions provided a batch of rural schools which used to be low-performingin compulsory education with better teaching and living facilities that can satisfy basic needs.As a result, compulsory education on the whole has been greatly enhanced.
Source: xinhua.net Nov. 25, 2014
4. The Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has completed the delivery of “heartwarming coal subsidies” of 2014, providing a total of 2.02 billion yuan fire coal subsidies for 3.3367 million farming and grazing households. In 2014, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region offers cash subsidies of 600 yuan per household, which is transferred directly into the “all-in-one” cards of farmers and herdsmen by the financial sector of the banner/county.
Source: .people.com.cn Nov. 24, 2014
5.In Tianjin, the renovation of dilapidated houses in rural areas has been made a major project concerning people’s well-beingFrom January 2014 to now, Tianjin has completed and examined the renovation of 5,820 dilapidated rural houses of poverty-stricken families, fulfilled the task two months ahead of schedule. With this year’s goal accomplished, the two-year project of renovating dilapidated houses in the rural areas in Tianjinhas been completed, providing 10,468 poor families with new residential buildings.
Source: epaper.tianjinwe.com Nov. 22, 2014
6. Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province will establish a hundred working teams for assistance and poverty alleviation. These teams will be sent to the villages newly identified as impoverishedones and conduct the program of stationing at the village and contact poor households. Starting from 2015, this program will last for three years with annual alternations of team members, and each team member should station in a village for at least six months in total.
Source: epaper.tibet3.com Nov. 23, 2014
7. Hezhou City, Guangxi Autonomous Region has officially initiated the project of sending special commissioners with expertise on science and technology to impoverished villages for relevant services, with the first batch of special commissioners totaled more than thirty.Under the principle of “Conducting a project, popularizing a technology, cultivating a group of experts, promoting an industry, and prospering a community”, the commissioners will aid the poor villages in strengthening industries with local characteristics, stimulating agricultural production and productivity, and increasing the income of farmers.
Source: chhzm.com Nov. 21, 2014
8. More than 100 non-public-owned enterprises in Hotan Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have been encouraged to assist over 100 impoverished villages through “one-for-one” and “many-for-one”patterns.This program can stimulate the development of labor-intensive industries and industries with local advantages such as planting industry, fish breeding and poultry raising industry, forestry and fruit industry, horticulture, agricultural product processing industry, herb industry, ethnic handicraft industry, and rural tourism. The program also fosters new growth points for rural economy and enables the poverty-stricken areas to shake off poverty and achieve prosperity.
Source: ts.cn Nov. 24, 2014
9. Chengdong District of Xi’ning City held the ceremony of to release QinghaiHui’aipublic welfare fundinitiated by thePolitical Consultative Conference of Qinghai Province. 1,624 poor families in the Province received financial assistance totaling 3.248 million yuan from 30 philanthropic companies..
Source: qhnews.com Nov. 24, 2014
10. 72 cadres from state organs and public institutions of Yinchuan City are divided into 36 working teams and will be sent to poor villages of the city’s counties or districts on the mission of assisting and helping with poverty alleviation. Cadres stationed at villages should work at least 20 days per month. Leaders of 36 working teams will take the temporary post as first secretary of village Party organizations with a full-time term of two years.
Source: Yinchuan DailyNov. 25, 2014
Organizer: Beijing Normal University China Poverty Reduction Research Center