The central economic work conference was held in Beijing from December 10 to 12. The meeting pointed out that next year, we will ensure that the task of poverty alleviation will be fully completed on schedule. As we approach 2020, what achievements have China made in the fight against poverty? How will China win the battle of poverty alleviation in 2020? I sorted out why we should complete the task of poverty alleviation in 2020. Welcome to learn from it.
Why should poverty alleviation be completed in 2020
China has achieved remarkable results in poverty reduction
Since 2012, China has made great progress in poverty alleviation. According to the current rural poverty standard, at the end of 2018, the number of rural poor in China was 16.6 million, a decrease of 82.39 million compared with 98.99 million at the end of 2012, and the incidence of poverty decreased from 10.2% to 1.7%; Compared with the 770 million people at the end of 1978, the cumulative poverty reduction was 750 million. In just 40 years, China has created a miracle in the history of human poverty reduction.
According to the world bank's international poverty standard of US $1.9 per person per day, China contributes more than 70% to global poverty reduction. It is the country with the largest number of people reducing poverty in the world and the first country in the world to achieve the poverty reduction goal in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. The problem of "not worrying about food" for the poor has been basically solved.
Hong Tianyun, deputy director of the poverty alleviation and Development Leading Group Office of the State Council, said recently that by the end of this year, more than 10 million people will be reduced from poverty, and about 330 counties will be lifted from poverty; It is estimated that about 95% of the poor will be lifted out of poverty, and more than 90% of the poor counties will take off their hats.
Next year, we will focus on two major problems
The central economic work conference stressed that next year, we should concentrate our troops to fight the war of annihilation of deep poverty, focus our policies and funds on the "three districts and three states" and other deep poverty-stricken areas, implement measures such as industrial poverty alleviation and relocation poverty alleviation, strictly withdraw the poor and consolidate the results of poverty alleviation. It is necessary to establish a mechanism to timely monitor and help the returning and newly emerging poor.
Experts said that the key task of poverty alleviation in 2020 is to solve two problems - "how can the remaining population get rid of poverty" and "can the people who have been lifted out of poverty be stable".
Wang Sangui, President of the China Poverty Alleviation Research Institute of Renmin University of China, said that deep poverty-stricken areas will be a "hard bone" in the fight against poverty next year due to poor infrastructure conditions and weak industrial foundation.
Li Guoxiang, a researcher at the Institute of rural development of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that at present, the problems of education, medical treatment and housing in these areas are still prominent. In the future, we should coordinate and integrate the existing poverty alleviation policies so that the existing relief system and social security system can keep up and play a role in time.
Li Guoxiang said that on the one hand, deep poverty-stricken areas can develop agriculture according to their own resource advantages and introduce suitable industrial development from other regions in combination with the central poverty alleviation funds. At the same time, industrial development should break through a single production link, establish corresponding market sales channels, connect production and sales, and form a perfect industrial system.
While eradicating poverty, we should consolidate existing achievements. Wang Sangui said that the poverty alleviation system has been relatively perfect. At present, the main work is to ensure that the poor counties that "take off their hats" do not take off their responsibilities, policies, assistance and supervision ("four don't take off") and maintain the stability and continuity of the policies.
Li Guoxiang believes that adhering to the "four no picking" policy is to put the quality of poverty eradication first, give play to its role as a long-term mechanism, and further ensure the stable lifting of the poor out of poverty.
Content source: China Poverty Alleviation Online