Premier Li Keqiang stressed the importance of poverty reduction when meeting with United Nations official. Premier Li Keqiang met with Helen Clark, UN Under Secretary General and Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on May 4 in the Zhongnanhai leadership compound. Li said that China was ready to work with other countries, on the basis of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), to map out a blueprint for the world’s development in the coming 15 years, and increase efforts in poverty reduction.

  Source: People’s Daily May 5, 2015

With an accumulated total of approximately 660 million people lifted out of poverty, China has contributed to 70% of global poverty alleviation, said Cui Yuying, Vice Minister of China's State Council Information Office (SCIO) in her keynote speech for the American Symposium of the World Forum on China Studies. Cui also said that China’s reform and opening-up is the most significant step in modern Chinese history and one that has an impact on the entire world.

Source: gov.cn  May 6, 2015

Local Poverty Alleviation News:

Nearly 170,000 people living in border counties of Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region have been lifted out of poverty with the implementation of effective poverty alleviation projects benefiting more impoverished people. Since 2014, the Xinjiang government has been carrying out targeted poverty alleviation measures, including the implementation of over 100 poverty alleviation projects with the support of a poverty alleviation fund worth 170 million yuan. As a result, around 167,000 people living in border counties received direct benefits last year, and their living standards were raised above the poverty line. In 17 border counties, the poverty incident rate dropped from 18.9% to 6.2%. Meanwhile, the per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen reached 6,937 yuan, increased by 1,037 yuan, or 17.6% compared with 2013.

Source: news.xinhuanet.com  May 2, 2015

Nearly 6,000 Tibetan students from low income families have had access to college education thanks to the “Autumn Student Subsidy” program. Since the  program was launched 13 years ago by the Tibet Autonomous Region Federation of Trade Unions, a total of 15.0595 million yuan has been raised to fund 5,931 students from low-income families (574 of them are children of migrant workers) to go to college.

Source: news.xinhuanet.com May 4, 2015

A central finance poverty alleviation fund worth 80 million yuan will be injected into Zhenning Autonomous County, Guizhou Province, in an effort to lift it out of poverty. According to statistics, Zhenning Autonomous County attracted 156 million yuan from the poverty alleviation funds provided by the Central government and Qingdao City (which has committed itself to the poverty reduction of Guizhou Province under arrangements by the State), and 92.8828 million yuan as poverty alleviation through industrial development fund from 2011 to 2014. After Zhenning was designated as a “Model County for Poverty Alleviation in Guizhou” this year, the provincial Poverty Alleviation and Development Office has decided to allocate 80 million yuan out of the central finance poverty alleviation fund to lift the County out of poverty in 2016 through targeted poverty alleviation measures.

Source: news.xinhuanet.com  May 7, 2015

Guizhou Province will continue to implement three measures to give students from poverty-stricken areas more opportunities for college entry. This year, Guizhou Province will implement three measures, including directed enrollment in poverty-stricken areas, special enrollment quota for outstanding rural students and enrollment of local rural students to key universities within the province, so as to give students from poverty-stricken areas more opportunity to enter college.

Source: China Daily  May 4, 2015

Gansu Province plans to renovate dilapidated houses for 140,000 rural families this year. Promoting dilapidated rural house renovation has been an important part of the poverty alleviation efforts of Gansu Province. Since 2009, impoverished rural households in the province have enjoyed considerably better living conditions. Around 5.2 million families have moved to new homes or had their houses renovated.

Source: gscn.com.cn  May 4, 2015

Poverty alleviation through industrial development is emphasized in Nancheng County, Jiangxi Province. In 2015, Nancheng County is committed to carrying out poverty alleviation through development, especially by vigorously developing agricultural industries and establishing leading industries with local characteristics. Focusing on “four drives” brought by model agricultural bases, joint ventures, high-end market and technological innovation, the County has successfully implemented poverty alleviation through industrial development with local characteristics.

Source: rmzxb.com.cn  May 4, 2015

Guangzhou Development District and Luogang District have invested another 2.5 million yuan for poverty alleviation in 5 villages in Changshan Town, covering 953 impoverished households. According to the plan, 256 rural low-income households will have their houses renovated or rebuilt.

Source: gdzjdaily.com.cn  May 6, 2015

Shanxi Province will invest 1.186 billion yuan to update education facilities in poverty-stricken areas. The money will be used to its full extent to update education and living facilities in schools of poverty stricken areas.

Source: sxrb.com  May 6, 2015

Sponsor: International Poverty Reduction Center in China (IPRCC)

Organizer: Beijing Normal University China Poverty Reduction Research Center

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