Various activities were held Wednesday in East China’s Jiangsu province to mark the National Poverty Alleviation Day. The province has released a 3-year action plan for the accomplishment of the tasks for poverty alleviation in the underdeveloped regions.
In the 2016-2017 period, 1.332 million needy people in Jiangsu registered per capita annual income of 6000 yuan, marking the decline of percentages in the number of the low income people from 5.8% in 2016 to 2.6% in 2017.
1.25 million poverty-stricken people in the province are yet to be lifted out of poverty, according to the provincial government statistics.
As a result, the province has insisted on the integration of poverty alleviation with rural revitalization so as to help the underdeveloped regions to carve out a road for industrial development by prioritizing assistance programs for the underdeveloped regions, boost the development of the collective economy, provide more opportunities in employment and education to the needy people and ensure basic housing conditions for the poverty-stricken people.
The city of Yancheng has made remarkable progress through the combination of the relocation of farmers into modernized living quarters with poverty alleviation.
The provincial CPC committee and the provincial government held a meeting on Wednesday to re-mobilize and re-deploy the battle to win the fight against poverty. Lou Qinjian, secretary of the CPC provincial committee, and Wu Zhenglong, governor of Jiangsu, gave important instructions for the meeting. Vice Governor Miao Ruilin delivered a speech.
The meeting put forward the basic strategy of implementing targeted poverty alleviation by grasping the fundamentals of poverty alleviation in the industry, broadening the channels for employment poverty alleviation and income increase, innovating the path of asset income and poverty alleviation, grabbing the opportunity to improve the housing, and strengthening the comprehensive safeguards for poverty alleviation. The implementation of the measures will be implemented in detail, ensuring a new progress in one year, and successfully completing the task of poverty alleviation in the country and the province.
Jiangsu will implement in-depth poverty alleviation and precision poverty alleviation, promote poverty alleviation through industrial development, broaden the channels for employment and income growth, innovate poverty alleviation through asset income, relocate farmers into modernized living quarters, strengthen comprehensive measures for poverty alleviation so as to effectively implement the measures for poverty alleviation and ensure that a new progress is made every year and the national and provincial goals of poverty alleviation is met in three years.
China announced that another 85 counties have been officially taken off the country’s list of impoverished areas on Oct 17, marking further steps toward its goal of eradicating poverty by 2020.
The announcement, made by the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, came on the fifth National Poverty Relief Day, which falls on Oct 17 every year.
This is the largest number of counties to shake off poverty since China vowed in 2015 to win the tough battle against poverty, bringing the total number of counties removed from the poverty list since then to 153.
The 85 counties, from nine provincial regions, went through assessments from third-party institutions before being removed from the list.
Seventy-four of them are in the country’s less-developed western regions, and 25 are in Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region, more than any other provincial region.
