中外减贫信息摘要
Poverty Reduction Briefing
2017. No. 20(Jul 11-20, 2017)
State and Ministerial Policy News:
The Sixth National Meeting of Counterpart Assistance for Xinjiang was held, and Yu Zhengsheng, member of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee and Chairman of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), attended the meeting and delivered an important speech. Yu Zhengsheng required that, in advancing the counterpart assistance work for Xinjiang both now and later, the focus shall be placed on building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round manner and making progress in battles against poverty, so as to help the assistance-receiving regions achieve the goals of poverty eradication. Meanwhile, we should firmly concentrate on facilitating the counterpart assistance for Xinjiang by creating more job opportunities, developing various industries, and enabling more people living in hardship to seek employment locally.
Source: cctv.com Jul 11, 2017
The State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development: The comprehensive and strict governance of the Party shall be identified as an ongoing requirement in the poverty alleviation. Recently, the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development has held the enlarged meeting of the Leading Party Members’ Group to convey and study the guiding principles from Wang Qishan’s speech. Liu Yongfu, Party Secretary and Director of the Office, stated on the meeting that, the speech of Wang Qishan has demonstrated that the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection attached great importance to the poverty alleviation, and the Leading Party Members’ Group must develop a deep understanding of the principles, constantly improve their political positioning, willingly maintain political integrity, think in big-picture terms, uphold the leadership core, and keep in alignment, so as to properly fulfill their responsibilities and pave the way for the 19th National Party Congress with outstanding achievements in targeted poverty reduction.
Source: China.com.cn Jul 18, 2017
The Ministry of Agriculture held a demonstration meeting for poverty alleviation through agricultural industrialization and the assistance for the agricultural development in Qinghai. Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture has held a demonstration meeting for poverty alleviation through agricultural industrialization and the assistance for the agricultural development in Xining City, Qinghai Province. It was emphasized on the meeting that, all parties concerned shall faithfully implement the guiding principles delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on agricultural industrialization and poverty alleviation in destitute areas, thoroughly put into practice the decisions and plans of the Party Central Committee for supporting the development of Qinghai, strengthen the guiding role of examples and enhance counterpart assistance, and jointly advance the poverty alleviation through agricultural industrialization and supporting agricultural development in Qinghai to a new height.
Source: Farmers’ Daily Jul 17, 2017
State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC): Central enterprises will constantly strengthen their targeted efforts to lift old revolutionary bases in Jiangxi Province out of poverty in a targeted manner. In order to thoroughly implement the principles delivered in General Secretary Xi Jinping’s speech about targeted poverty reduction and alleviation at a symposium on poverty alleviation in poverty-stricken areas, SASAC is proactively encouraging the central enterprises to take an active approach to their work and tackle the problems in poverty alleviation, especially those in the counterpart assistance for old revolutionary bases in Jiangxi Province.
Source: sasac.gov.cn Jul 19, 2017
Local Poverty Alleviation News:
The 13th “five-year plan” of Fujian Province and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region will achieve profound coordination on poverty reduction in various sectors. Recently, Fujian Province and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR) have hosted a press conference, which released and elaborated on the “Program of Fujian-NHAR Coordination on Poverty Reduction during the 13th ‘Five-year Plan’ Period”. The Fujian-NHAR coordination is a successful model of coordination on poverty reduction between western and eastern regions. With this program, the Fujian-NHAR coordination will be further upgraded, and thus build up a national demonstration area for poverty eradication and provide guidance and assurance for all governments to tackle the poverty-related problems.
Source: Xinhua News Agency Jul 20, 2017
The government bonds earmarked for poverty reduction in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region will be increased by 4.45 billion yuan, which will then be used in infrastructure development in poverty-stricken villages. Recently, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has planned and announced to increase its government bonds earmarked for poverty reduction by 4.45 billion yuan, so as to advance the infrastructure development of poverty-stricken villages, improve the production and living conditions of people in destitute villages, and provide financial support for the government to complete its task for poverty eradication in 2017.
Source: Guangxi Daily Jul 18, 2017
The “Initiative on Targeted Poverty Alleviation through Health Promotion and Health Education Action” was launched in Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province. The initiative is based on consolidating basic public health services and health education in counties (or districts), towns, and villages that are key targets in the program of poverty alleviation through health promotion. Working to decrease the existing cases of disease-induced poverty, it also concentrates on preventing people from being reduced to or returned to poverty due to illness and helps those living in hardship.
Source: cnr.cn Jul 18, 2017
Jiangxi Province is making an “Express Line” available for poverty-alleviation projects. In order to improve the efficiency of implementing poverty-alleviation projects and spending money on them and complete poverty-alleviation work in full, Jiangxi provincial government recently released the “Implementation Plan of Building an Express Line for Poverty-alleviation Projects”, which simplified the review procedures for projects, vowed to handle applications within a time limit, and thus worked to improve the working efficiency.
Source: jiangxi.gov.cn Jul 19, 2017
Jiangsu Province: Great efforts will be made to establish a regulation system to ensure the transparency in poverty alleviation. In order to thoroughly address the small cases of corruption in the poverty alleviation, Jiangsu Province is establishing a regulation system to ensure the transparency in poverty alleviation by relying on information technologies and making necessary information public in an institutionalized mechanism. With this system, the government will be able to supervise the work of functional departments in deepening the construction of rural equity market, and make sure the collective assets and resources all over the province can enter the market.
Source: Guangming Daily Jul 18, 2017
Shaanxi Province is implementing a project of reducing poverty with youth e-commerce development. Recently, five departments in Shaanxi provincial government, including Shaanxi Poverty Alleviation and Development Office, have jointly released a Notice to implement a project of reducing poverty with youth e-commerce development. The project is mainly aimed at highlighting the leading role of youth e-commerce, creating a complete service chain for youths in poverty-stricken areas to start e-commerce businesses, improving the development of youth e-commerce, and setting an all-round example for developing e-commerce in poverty-stricken areas.
Source: Shaanxi Daily Jul 18, 2017
Poverty Alleviation through Health Promotion in Hunan Province: The reimbursement rate of inpatient costs for poverty-stricken population is increased to not less than 90 percent. A few days ago, six departments in Hunan provincial government, including Department of Finance, jointly issued the “Implementation Program of Three Initiatives for Poverty Alleviation through Health Promotion in Hunan Province”. It is stated in the Notice that, from 2017 to 2020, the rural population verifiably suffering from serious diseases or chronicle diseases will be treated on a per-category basis.
Source: rednet.cn Jul 18, 2017
Guangdong Province is deepening coordination on poverty reduction between western and eastern regions. According to Guangdong Poverty Alleviation and Development Office, since the Party Central Committee adjusted the partnerships in coordination on poverty reduction between western and eastern regions in 2016, Guangdong Province has appointed a total of 93 staff to temporary posts in poverty-stricken areas, and invested more than 1.5 billion yuan in poverty-alleviation fund for resettling impoverished population and promoting agriculture industrialization, and thousands of impoverished students and labor workers have been studying in vocational schools or working in factories in Guangdong.
Source: xinhuanet.com Jul 20, 2017
Public Poverty Alleviation and Charity News：
The 10th China-ASEAN Forum on Social Development and Poverty Reduction was held in Guilin City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. At the forum which is themed on “The Belt and Road Initiative and China-ASEAN Cooperation on Poverty Reduction”, the participants will discuss various issues, including the retrospect and prospects of China-ASEAN cooperation on poverty reduction, targeted strategies to reduce poverty and multidimensional index for poverty, and the cooperation on poverty reduction under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative. Meanwhile, the participants will go to Longsheng Various Nationalities Autonomous County to inspect the projects of agricultural industrialization and poverty reduction through tourism.
Source: China.com.cn Jul 18, 2017
The 2017 Symposium on Targeted Poverty Reduction through E-commerce Consumption was held in Beijing. A few days ago, the 2017 Symposium on Targeted Poverty Reduction through E-commerce Consumption was held in Beijing. The symposium was aimed at finding out, under the policies for targeted poverty reduction, how e-commerce businesses shall leverage their own features and advantages to facilitate the course against poverty, promote the standardized development of agriculture in poverty-stricken areas, improve the quality of agricultural products and build brands for them, and increase farmers’ incomes in a real sense.
Source: cnr.cn Jul 18, 2017
Sponsor: International Poverty Reduction Center in China (IPRCC)
Organize：China Institute for Poverty Reduction, Beijing Normal University
Contact: Zhang Xiaoying 84419855
Email: zhangxiaoying@iprcc.org.cn