中外减贫信息摘要
Poverty Reduction Briefing
2016 No. 29 (Oct 11-20, 2016)
State and Ministerial Policy News:
Xi Jinping: We should effectively put targeted poverty alleviation into practice. On the occasion of the third National Poverty Reduction Day, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, President and Chairman of Central Military Commission, made important instructions on the awarding ceremony of national poverty alleviation. He stressed that we should promote and learn from advanced models and motivate the party, society as well as cadres and masses in destitute areas to take further action, so that we could gather all of the forces to promote poverty alleviation. United and committed, we could effectively implement targeted poverty alleviation and eradication and continuously win the tough battle of poverty alleviation.
Source: xinhuanet.com Oct 17th, 2016
Li Keqiang met with Silva, Premier of Cape Verde and expressed China’s wish to share experience in poverty reduction with Cape Verde. In the afternoon of October 10th, Li Keqiang, Premier of the State Council, met with Silva, Premier of Cape Verde, who came to Macao to attend the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries. Li Keqiang said that China would be happy and ready to share experience in poverty reduction with Cape Verde and promote new progress in friendly partnership so as to achieve mutual benefits and win-win outcomes.
Source: gov.cn Oct 11th, 2016
Wang Yang stressed on the Plenary Session of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development that China should strengthen supervision and accountability to address formalism in poverty alleviation. Recently, Wang Yang, Vice Premier of the State Council and Director of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development stressed on the conference that we should closely study and implement the important spirits emphasized by General Secretary Xi Jinping in the speeches on poverty alleviation. We are supposed to strictly implement the systems, reinforce supervision and accountability and improve work style so as to address formalism in the poverty alleviation from top to bottom in a thorough manner and promote all work of poverty alleviation steadily.
Source: gov.cn Oct 12th, 2016
During his investigation into poverty alleviation in Hubei Province, Wang Yang, Vice Premier of the State Council stressed on the “Ten Thousand Enterprises Helping Ten Thousand Villages” Targeted Poverty Alleviation Meeting that governments of local levels should effectively implement the campaign of “Ten Thousand Enterprises Helping Ten Thousand Villages” along with special poverty alleviation projects and poverty alleviation through agricultural industrialization, so as to form joint forces of poverty alleviation. They are supposed to carefully implement preferential tax policies and guide financial institutions to strengthen support for private enterprises to help the impoverished to shake off poverty. Meanwhile, governments of local levels should ensure the problems of limited access and high cost to financing are fixed while summarizing replicable and transferable experience timely to further deepen the campaign of “Ten Thousand Enterprises Helping Ten Thousand Villages”.
Source: people.com.cn Oct 14th, 2016
The State Council Information Office held news conference on the activity arrangement of the third China’s National Poverty Reduction Day, which was going to be held on October 17. Su Guoxia, spokeswoman of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development and Director of the Department of Policies and Regulations, in her response to reporters’ questions, said that China would avoid falling into the welfare trap too early through designing system, guiding public opinions and assisting the impoverished.
Source: scio.gov.cn Oct 13th, 2016
The State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development (LGOP) signed memorandum of cooperation on poverty reduction with the Ministry of Social Development of Uruguay. On October 18, Liu Yongfu, director of the LGOP and Nin, Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs signed the “Memorandum of Cooperation on Poverty Reduction and Social Development between the LGOP of People’s Republic of China and the Ministry of Social Development of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay”, under the witness of Xi Jinping, General Secretary of China and Vázquez, President of Uruguay. The two parties will conduct cooperation in the following areas – exchanges of experience in poverty reduction and social development, information sharing, capacity building and joint research. Hopefully, the partnership can facilitate poverty reduction and promote social development in both countries. And the two counties will implement the “China-CELAC Cooperation Plan 2015-2019”, creating new modes of South-South cooperation.
Source: china.com.cn Oct 20th, 2016
Millions of people will be lifted out of poverty every year since 2016. On October 17, the State Council Information Office issued the white paper China’s Progress in Poverty Reduction and Human Rights. It is pointed out that, based on the achievements of helping 14.42 million people shake off poverty in 2015, China is committed to lifting over 10 million people out of poverty every year since 2016.
Source: xinhuanet.com Oct 17th, 2016
Local Poverty Alleviation News:
Sichuan Province strengthens administrative accountability towards “fake poverty alleviation results via manipulating figures”. A few days ago, Sichuan Province issued special examination methods to assess the poverty alleviation work of party committees and governments in the province’s 21 cities (prefectures) and 88 destitute counties in the “four districts”, including Qinling-Bashan mountainous area, Wumeng mountainous area, Daliang Mountain and Xiaoliang Mountain Yi area and plateau Tibetan area. The province will make investigation into different kinds of problems that have caused negative influence, such as record falsification and manipulating figures to make fake poverty alleviation results. And those who are in charge of party committee and government affairs will be held responsible for these problems. Cities (prefectures) rated and destitute counties being assessed as advanced in the work of poverty alleviation will receive financial rewards.
Source: Xinhua News Agency Oct 11th, 2016
Hunan Province has been proceeding with poverty alleviation steadily and has lifted a total of 3.61 million people out of poverty over the past three years. Hunan Province is one of the provinces with the herculean task of poverty alleviation. Over the past three years, a total of 3.61 million people have been lifted out of poverty in Hunan Province and the rate of poverty incidence dropped to 7.84%. A total of 1,262,700 people were lifted out of poverty in 2015. The per-capita disposable income of rural residents in 40 key counties reached 7,222 yuan, an increase of 11.6%, which was 2% higher than the provincial growth rate.
Source: rednet.cn Oct 12th, 2016
In 2015, the proportion of people falling into poverty due to disease in Jiangxi Province dropped to 44.4% and over 1,100 medical teams will provide free clinic service for poverty alleviation. Aiming to deepen the tough work of poverty alleviation, Jiangxi Poverty Alleviation and Resettlement Office launched a series of activities of the “National Poverty Reduction Day”, giving priorities to public-interest activities, including poverty alleviation through e-commerce and healthcare. Over 300 medical institutions in provincial, municipal and county levels and ten thousands of medical experts will be engaged in the free clinic activities.
Source: chinanews.com Oct 14th, 2016
Yunnan Province: the rural minimum living standard of the 12 destitute counties to be lifted out of poverty reached national poverty alleviation standard. In order to boost its efforts in poverty alleviation, Yunnan Province increased the rural minimum living standard of the 12 destitute counties which is to be lifted out of poverty this year to 3,100 yuan. According to the poverty alleviation plan, 12 counties, 1,253 destitute villages and 1.2 million people in Yunnan Province will be lifted out of poverty this year.
Source: Xinhua News Agency Oct 14th, 2016
Linxia City, Gansu Province helped 35,000 people shake off poverty with poverty incidence dropping to 1.36%. Since the launch of special loan for targeted poverty alleviation, Linxia City has implemented the mechanism of arranging cadres to station at villages and making cadres responsible for impoverished households. A special loan for targeted poverty alleviation totaling 105 million yuan has been allocated to documented impoverished households, helping 35,400 people shake off poverty with the poverty incidence declining from 35.81% to 1.36%.
Source: china.com.cn Oct 19th, 2016
Qiannan Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province embraced great accomplishments in the field of poverty alleviation with a series of poverty alleviation policies. During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, facilitated by a series of poverty alleviation policies, Qiannan lifted 786,900 people out of poverty. Five key counties for poverty alleviation and development work and 103 destitute villages and towns shake off poverty in the light of the province’s standard.
Source: gog.cn Oct 20th, 2016
Baoji City, Shaanxi Province promoted steadily poverty alleviation through healthcare, reducing the medical expenditure of the impoverished by 5,138,200 yuan. Since 2016, Baoji City has released a series of policies of poverty alleviation through healthcare. Baoji implemented the new rural cooperative medical system and the preferential healthcare policy of critical illness insurance for impoverished people, which can provide medical services to people who become impoverished because of their illness. According to statistics, these efforts have reduced the medical expenditure of the impoverished by 5,138,200 yuan.
Source: xinhuanet.com Oct 20th, 2016
Hunan Province plans to lift 1.1 million people out of poverty this year. Hunan Province took poverty alleviation as the top priority of people’s livelihood and embraced remarkable results. In 2015, a total of 1.26 million rural impoverished people were lifted out of poverty. In 2016, the province remains committed to the tough battle of poverty alleviation and tries to finish the goal of lifting 1.1 million people out of poverty.
Source: rednet.cn Oct 17th, 2016
A total of 98 working crews station at villages in Fushun City, Liaoning Province plan to lift all the 36,800 impoverished people out of poverty. In order to help destitute areas and impoverished people shake off poverty as soon as possible, Fushun City began to arrange cadres to station at villages to facilitate poverty alleviation efforts in November 2014. A total of 98 working crews and 294 village cadres from 98 municipal and county units were scattered at all the destitute villages. According to the plan, by 2018, the 36,800 rural impoverished people under current national poverty line in Fushun City will be lifted out of poverty; 112 destitute villages will be eliminated from the poverty list. These impoverished areas will embrace a better-off life synchronously
Source: nen.com.cn Oct 17, 2016
Public Poverty Alleviation and Charity News：
All-China Women’s Federation adopts six measures to facilitate targeted poverty alleviation for impoverished women, including finance, skilled hands, employment transfer, e-commerce, tourism and healthcare. On October 13 and 14, the conference of national “Women’s Poverty Alleviation Campaign” was held in Longnan City, Gansu Province. Launched in 2015, the campaign has already helped 3.67 million impoverished women and children.
Source: xinhuanet.com Oct 14th, 2016
The 2016 Forum on National Poverty Reduction Day was held in Beijing, focusing on 14 key areas in the work of poverty alleviation. As one of the activities of the third National Poverty Reduction Day, the 2016 Forum on National Poverty Reduction Day was held in Beijing yesterday. Taking “Targeted Poverty Alleviation and Eradication” as the theme, the forum held 14 parallel forums as well. Participants expressed various opinions and conducted comprehensive and in-depth discussion on the theme. Furthermore, they traced the deep-rooted problems in the core works and prospective issues in poverty alleviation and find solutions to tackle with them.
Source: ce.cn Oct 17th, 2016
Sponsor: International Poverty Reduction Center in China (IPRCC)
Organizer: Poverty Reduction Research Center, Beijing Normal University, China
Contact: Lin Huadang 84419852 Zhang Xiaoying 84419855
Email: linhuadang@iprcc.org.cn zhangxiaoying@iprcc.org.cn