中外减贫信息摘要
Poverty Reduction Briefing
2019. No. 4 (Mar. 1-10, 2019)
State and Ministerial Policy News:
Hu Chunhua: We should focus on problems identified during the special inspection tours and secure solid progress in poverty reduction. As he presided over the plenary session of the State Council Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development, Hu Chunhua stressed that we have now entered a critical stage of poverty alleviation. Thus, we should firmly implement important statement on poverty reduction made by General Secretary Xi Jinping, work with one mind, enhance political integrity, remain dedicated to solving problems, and make good use of the outcomes of special inspection tours, so as to effectively finish poverty alleviation tasks.
Source: xinhuanet.com Feb. 1, 2019
Ministry of Water Resources: China will ensure that impoverished people have access to safe drinking water in 2019. In 2019, the Ministry of Water Resources will prioritize destitute areas in projects of rural drinking water, flood control and drought relief, irrigation and drainage, development and utilization of water resources, water and soil conservation, and rural hydropower-based poverty reduction. These projects will provide impoverished people with access to safe drinking water in 2019, improve their working and living conditions, and increase their incomes.
Source: xinhuanet.com Feb. 4, 2019
Ministry of Civil Affairs: More than 810,000 registered social organizations in China are playing a pivotal role in poverty alleviation. The Central Government has allocated enough money in projects to encourage social organizations to participate in social services. Among these projects, the Ministry of Civil Affairs gave priority to social organizations engaged in supporting destitute areas including “Three Regions and Three Prefectures” (three regions include Tibet, four districts in southern Xinjiang, and Tibetan-inhabited areas in Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan and Gansu; and three prefectures cover Linxia Prefecture of Gansu, Liangshan Prefecture of Sichuan, and Nujiang Prefecture of Yunnan). In 2018 and 2019, over 290 projects have been launched with more than RMB 100 million as initial capital. The Ministry will continue to encourage the involvement of social organizations in poverty alleviation by providing convenience, creating favorable conditions, and removing barriers timely for them.
Source: xinhuanet.com Feb. 9, 2019
Local Poverty Alleviation News:
Chongqing Municipality is going to lift more than 100,000 people out of poverty in 2019. At the Promotion Meeting of Implementing Rectification Feedback of Central Special Inspection Tour of Poverty Alleviation which is also known as 2019 Municipal-Level Poverty Alleviation Meeting, Chongqing proposed that it will continue to work on nine fields, including arming people’s mind with knowledge, implementing responsibilities, focusing on destitute areas, and taking policies in a targeted manner, to help four counties, namely Chengkou County, Wuxi County, Youyang County and Pengshui County, and 33 poverty-stricken villages with approximately 100,000 people shaking off poverty.
Source: Chongqing Daily Feb. 1, 2019
Hunan Province vigorously encouraged all social forces to engage in poverty alleviation, which increased impoverished people’s incomes. Hunan Province has actively brought in all social forces to push forward poverty alleviation since the implementation of targeted poverty alleviation. At present, more than 40,000 current and former CPPCC members across the Province are engaged in partner assistance with over 40,000 impoverished households, benefiting more than 100,000 poverty-stricken people. Moreover, 5,832 private enterprises have reached out to 6,955 poverty-stricken villages through targeted poverty alleviation to help 833,000 impoverished people increase their incomes steadily.
Source: Economic Information Daily Feb. 1, 2019
Anhui Province issued a new policy of linking the amount of urban and rural land granted for construction purposes to that of land returned to cultivation, investing a total of RMB 15.27 billion in poverty alleviation. During the period from December 2016 to December 2018, 11 poverty-stricken counties in Anhui arranged surplus indicators amounting to 36,300 mu (2,420 hectares) with a transaction value of RMB 15.27 billion, raising enough for the construction and development of impoverished counties. The new policy issued recently regulates cross-county adjustment of surplus indicators of linking the amount of urban and rural land granted for construction purposes to that of land returned to cultivation in destitute areas. It is also put in the policy that the land reclaimed for general cultivation purposes or as other types of farmland should be circulated at about RMB 300,000 per mu (0.07 hectare), while that returned to high-standard farmland should be circulated at about RMB 400,000 per mu.
Source: chinanews.com Feb. 2, 2019
In 2018, Yunnan Province enhanced drinking water safety for 6.456 million rural people. Among them, there were a total of 1.309 million archived impoverished people. The rates of centralized water supply of rural areas across the Province reached 92.8%. Yunnan invested RMB 16.15 billion in water conversancy projects in poverty-stricken areas, and created jobs of water conservancy construction and maintenance for 8,911 impoverished people.
Source: xinhuanet.com Feb. 5, 2019
Guizhou Province: The Province pushed forward poverty alleviation through civil services. There are 2.269 million people living on subsistence allowances in rural areas and 79,900 people struggling in extreme poverty across Guizhou. A total of 1.677 million impoverished people were incorporated in the rural subsistence allowance system and assistance and support system for extremely poor rural population, accounting for 71.4% of the people receiving subsistence allowances, which is significantly higher than the national average level. Meanwhile, the Province extended the urban and rural subsistence allowance system to 156,600 relocated impoverished people, and issued a one-time provisional relief fund totaling RMB 513 million to 342,000 relocated impoverished people.
Source: chinanews.com Feb. 1, 2019
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region created jobs for nearly 20,000 archived impoverished people in 2018, achieving the goals by 119.2%, and delivered diverse trainings to 3,495 impoverished workers. In 2019, Inner Mongolia will focus on targeted poverty alleviation through human resources and social security services largely by four fundamental channels, namely creating jobs through all kinds of poverty alleviation means, organizing well-structured labor service export, promoting poverty reduction through entrepreneurship, and creating public service posts, which will further consolidate employment stability.
Source: chinanews.com Feb. 1, 2019
Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region established a “security net” for impoverished families through “insurance-based poverty alleviation.” Ningxia began to explore insurance-based poverty alleviation projects since 2014, and has now covered all archived impoverished people in supplementary critical illness insurance and family accident insurance. As of 2018, the project has provided RMB 280.326 billion accumulative risk deposits and paid RMB 163 million compensation, benefiting nearly 40,000 people and effectively advancing poverty reduction.
Source: xinhuanet.com Feb. 3, 2019
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region provided strong follow-up support to poverty alleviation through relocation, strengthening the self-development ability of impoverished people. Focusing on ensuring and improving people’s living standards, Guangxi rendered relentless follow-up support to poverty alleviation through relocation and reservoir resettlement, in a bid to increase the immigrants’ incomes and improve their working and living conditions. Currently, more than RMB two billion have been raised by the Autonomous Region for 5,770 follow-up supporting projects of characteristic agriculture and forestry and labor services, lifting 255,900 people from 57,500 households out of poverty.
Source: Guangxi Daily Feb. 1, 2019
The per capita disposable income of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region exceeded RMB 20,000 for the first time with narrowed rural-urban income gap. Xinjiang continues to promote an employment-based poverty alleviation project, which aims to help 100,000 people in 22 destitute counties in southern Xinjiang get employed in three years. As a result, the per capita wage or salary of rural residents in Xinjiang reached RMB 2,945, up by 5.3% year on year; the average monthly income of rural migrant workers climbed to RMB 2,866, a year-on-year increase of 16.7%. Furthermore, measures promoting the development of premium cotton and animal husbandry industry effectively boosted the per capita net business income of rural residents to RMB 6,624, a year on year increase of 9.7%.
Source: People’s Daily Feb. 4, 2019
Public Poverty Alleviation and Charity News:
The Western Returned Scholars Association (WRSA) has taken a set of measures to help poor areas shake off poverty. WRSA arranged four groups of western returned experts to help poverty-stricken areas in 2018. A total of 79 letters of intent concerning the development of local characteristic industries and enhancement of product competitiveness were signed, and 28 types of practical instruments in severe shortage, such as medical apparatus and smart education facilities with a total value of more than RMB 11 million, were donated to those areas. WRSA secured remarkable progress in facilitating local poverty alleviation through agricultural industrialization, healthcare, education and employment.
Source: people.com.cn Feb. 3, 2019
Shanghai-based Jade Buddha Temple held the education sponsorship event during the Spring Festival, providing aids to 100 impoverished but excellent students. Since the Spring Festival of 2001, it has become a tradition of the Shanghai-based Jade Buddha Temple to hold the education sponsorship event every year to help local impoverished students. The Temple has spent more than RMB four million on the event over the last 19 years, helping over 2,300 students complete their studies.
Source: chinanews.com Feb. 7, 2019
Sponsor: International Poverty Reduction Center in China (IPRCC)
Organize：China Institute for Poverty Reduction, Beijing Normal University
Contact: Xu Liping 84419659
Email: xuliping@iprcc.org.cn