State and Ministerial Policy News:
Delivering a report on the work of the government at the third session of the 12th National People’s Congress on behalf of the State Council, Premier Li Keqiang pointed out that, in order to make further achievements in poverty alleviation, we should promote poverty reduction through development in contiguous destitute areas, carry out targeted poverty alleviation and lift targeted people out of poverty. No matter how difficult it might be, we should do our best to free 10 million more rural people from the shackle of poverty this year.
Source: people.com.cn Mar. 5, 2015
The target of reducing poverty population by 10 million in 2014 has been exceeded. The report on the work of the government in 2014 puts forward the goal of reducing rural impoverished population by over 10 million. According to a sampling survey conducted by National Bureau of Statistics on 160,000 households in 31 provinces (districts and cities), 70.17 million rural people lived below the poverty line of 2,300 yuan (annual average income per capita, based on the constant price in 2010) in 2014, lowered by 14.9% or 12.32 million in comparison with 2013; poverty incidence rate was reduced by 7.2%, lowered by 1.3% compared with 2013.
Local Poverty Alleviation News:
Shaanxi Province is exploring a new financing mode for poverty alleviation and development. To thoroughly implement the guiding principles given by President Xi Jinping at a symposium on reducing poverty and enriching the poor in old revolutionary base areas in Shaanxi Province, Gansu Provinces, and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. 44 financial institutions in Shaanxi recently facilitated the establishment of “Poverty Alleviation and Guarantee Fund for Old Revolutionary Base Areas from Shaanxi Banking industry” to help families and offsprings of revolutionary martyrsget rid of poverty.
Source: xinhuanet.com Mar. 2, 2015
Public Poverty Alleviation and Charity News:
Jiangxi Province issued a program of medical allowance for diagnosis and treatment for impoverished people infected with AIDS. Jiangxi provincial AIDS Prevention and Control Office, Health and Family Planning Commission and Department of Finance jointly launched “Treatment Plan for Patients of Opportunistic AIDS Infection from Poor Families in Jiangxi”, and promised that Jiangxi Provincial Department of Finance will grant 30 million yuan annually from this year on to offer free AIDS testing, treatment and follow-up services to the aforementioned patients in the whole province.
Source: jxntv.cn Mar. 3, 2015
Hubei Province set up documents for 5.9 million impoverished people and distributed Poverty Alleviation Handbooks among them. In 2014, Hubei identified 5.9 million impoverished people in 4,821 poor villages. Hubei Provincial Party Committee and provincial government decided to allocate a fund of 50 million yuan annually to provide a subsidy of over 10,000 yuan for each poor village. The provincial government granted 10 million yuan as special fund for the achievement of establishing the card for achieve for the poor.
Source: Hubei Daily Mar. 2, 2015
Dalian City, Liaoning Province launched a new round of “Whole Village Poverty Alleviation Program”. In line with the requirements of “Opinions on Further Advancing Rural Poverty Alleviation through Development” recently issued in Dalian, the city’s financial department has decided to grant more than 50 million yuan per year as special funds for whole village scientific poverty reduction programs through development in an all-round way. 128 low income villages in Dalian have been listed as poverty alleviation targets.
Source: Dalian Daily Mar. 5, 2015
Fourmillion rural poor people in Guangxi have moved into “Heart-warming Houses”. By the end of December, 2014, Guangxi has completed rebuilding 1 million dilapidated houses in rural areas after 6 years, benefiting over 4 million rural impoverished people, which marked a historic achievement in poverty alleviation.
Source: cbtnet.com.cn Mar. 3, 2015
Organizer: Beijing Normal University China Poverty Reduction Research Center