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《中外减贫信息摘要》2016年第21期-英文版

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Poverty Reduction Briefing

2016.No. 21 (Jul 21-31, 2016)

State and Ministerial Policy News:

General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over the East-West Poverty Alleviation Collaboration Symposium and made important remarks. He emphasized that east-west poverty alleviation collaboration and pairing assistance are key strategies for promoting coordinated regional development, synergistic development and common development; essential layouts for strengthening regional cooperation, upgrading industrial distribution and expanding internal and external dimensions; and great measures for the rich to help the poor so as to realize common prosperity. We need to identify the current situation, have a clear focus, make further efforts, ensure efficiency and seek improvement in order to win the battle against poverty.  

Source: People’s Daily Jul 22, 2016

 

Local Poverty Alleviation News:

A total of 570,000 people in Sichuan Province were lifted out of poverty in the first half of 2016 and 2,350 impoverished villages are expected to shake off poverty by the end of this year. In the first half of 2016, 570,000 people in Sichuan got rid of poverty and the poverty incidence of 1,135 impoverished villages dropped to below 3%. Nearly 2,000 impoverished villages have generated collective economic income.

Source: China News Jul 21, 2016

 

Jiangsu Province: to establish and improve the Jiangsu-Shaanxi poverty alleviation collaboration mechanism and join hands to win the battle against poverty.  A few days ago, the important remarks made by General Secretary Xi Jinping on the East-West Poverty Alleviation Collaboration Symposium were passed on in Jiangsu Province during a meeting. It was pointed out that it’s important to encourage enterprises to join poverty alleviation projects in Western China and promote exchanges and collaboration on the basis of complementation and mutual benefits between enterprises from Jiangsu and Shaanxi so as to realize common development.

Source: Xinhua Daily July 23, 2016

 

Pilot programs of fiscal agricultural funds were carried out in 50 impoverished counties in Guizhou Province. To optimize the supply mechanism of fiscal agricultural funds, Guizhou Province made plans to integrate fiscal agricultural funds with similar targets and purposes and leverage the financial capital and the social fund for poverty alleviation projects, so as to make fiscal agricultural funds more targeted and more efficacious.

Source: xinhuanet.com Jul 24, 2016

 

Anhui Province launched the project of “A Hundred Tourism Enterprises Helping a Hundred Villages in Pairs”. Anhui Tourism Bureau recently announced to organize 100 tourism enterprises to help 100 key impoverished villages for rural tourism development in pairs and invited enterprises nationwide to help 302 key impoverished villages for rural tourism development in the province.  

Source: Anhui Daily Jul 24, 2016

 

An estimated 13,000 people were lifted out of poverty in Quanzhou City, Fujian in the first half of 2016. Quanzhou municipal government allocated 115 million yuan as special fund for poverty alleviation and focused on poverty relief and the relocation of 300 villages from 30 towns and townships in Anxi and Northwest Dehua. Currently, the relocation project has benefited 5,678 people from 1,461 households and 12 welfare projects on infrastructure construction have been implemented.

Source: Quanzhou Evening News Jul 24, 2016

 

Guangxi: minimum living standard and poverty alleviation standard in rural areas will be integrated into one. From July 2016 to December 2019, Guangxi will accelerate the cohesion between the rural minimum living standard guarantee system and the poverty relief and development policy from eight perspectives, namely policy, target, threshold, subsidiary level, management, working mechanism, information data and public participationso as to realize the integration of minimum living standard and poverty alleviation standard in rural areas by 2019.

Source: Guangxi Daily Jul 24, 2016

 

Lincang City of Yunnan Province will implement 14-year compulsory education in border counties. Lincang intends to stop poverty from passing down to the next generation by implementing 14-year compulsory education (namely 2-year pre-schooling, 9-year compulsory education and 3-year high school or secondary vocational school education) in border counties, including Gengma County, Zhenkang County and Cangyuan County. 

Source: Kunming Daily Jul 27, 2016

 

Shanxi Province plans to help 2.32 million people out of poverty by 2020. At the press conference held by the Information Office of Shanxi Provincial Government, Shanxi Province will implement twenty special activities of eight projects for targeted poverty alleviation to ensure that 2.32 million rural people living below the current poverty line and 58 impoverished counties can be lifted out of poverty, so that the problem of regional poverty can be tackled.

Source: takongpao.com Jul 27, 2016

 

A total of 107,700 people in Liuzhi Special District of Guizhou Province have shaken off poverty. Liuzhi Special District of Guizhou Province took poverty alleviation as the “most important livelihood project” and approach poverty alleviation from the issues that are of the highest concerns of the public. With such efforts, 107,700 people got rid of poverty and 5,582 “Three Changes” contracts were signed by impoverished households in rural areas. The living standard and happiness index of people have substantially increased.

Source: www.gog.cn Jul 29, 2016

 

Hebei Province aims to help millions of people out of poverty each year through targeted poverty alleviation. During the “12th Five Year Plan”, Hebei Province witnessed 1 million people lifted out of poverty each year. By 2020, the remaining 3.1 million impoverished people in rural areas will shake off poverty under the current standard, which means all the remaining impoverished villages and impoverished counties are expected to get rid of poverty. 

Source: www.gmw.cn Jul 29, 2016

 

Public Poverty Alleviation and Charity News

Postal Savings Bank of China invested 23 billion yuan to help Jiangxi Province with targeted poverty alleviation. The Jiangxi Provincial Branch of Postal Savings Bank of China launched the 2016-2018 Working Plan for Targeted Poverty Alleviation Through Finance, which regulated that in the next three years, the bank will invest more than 23 billion yuan as poverty alleviation credit loans for poverty alleviation and more than 1 billion yuan will go to people registered in poverty document. 

Source: eastday.com Jul 27, 2016

 

A total of 370 volunteers from Guangdong Province arrived in Western Regions to help with targeted poverty alleviation. A total of 186 volunteers who signed up for the Western Region Project and 184 volunteers who signed up for the Mountain Area Project from Guangdong Province will serve as volunteers for one to three years in 70 impoverished counties in north, east and west of Guangdong and eight provinces in Central and Western regions of China, including Tibet, Xinjiang (Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps) and Guangxi. 

   Source: china.com July 27, 2016

 

Sponsor: International Poverty Reduction Center in China (IPRCC)

Organizer: Poverty Reduction Research Center, Beijing Normal University, China

Contact: Han Mengzhen 84419871     Yu Man 84419861

Email: hanmengzhen@iprcc.org.cn    yuman@iprcc.org.cn


 
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