Resolutely win the battle against poverty
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3. Resolutely win the battle against poverty
“Eliminating poverty, improving people’s livelihood and achieving common prosperity are the essential requirements of socialism. " 1
According to international poverty alleviation standards, since 1978, China has reduced poverty by 780 million people, and the number of people lifted out of poverty exceeds the combined population of the world’s most populous countries, the United States, Russia, Japan and Germany, and the country with the largest poverty reduction population in the world, contributing more than 70% to world poverty reduction.
Since the 18th National Congress of the CCP, China has made decisive achievements in poverty alleviation, the number of poor people has been reduced from 98.99 million at the end of 2012 to 5.51 million at the end of 2019, the incidence of poverty has dropped from 10.2% to 0.6%, and the poverty reduction has been reduced by more than 10 million people every year for seven consecutive years, and the overall regional poverty has been basically solved.
In long-term practice, China’s poverty alleviation work is based on rapid economic development, with enhancing the intrinsic development capacity of poverty alleviation targets as the fundamental way, both government-led and social assistance, more actively mobilizing and giving play to the main role of the poor population, implementing inclusive policies and preferential policies, linking long-term poverty alleviation planning with poverty alleviation, and achieving precise poverty alleviation through targeted poverty alleviation, forming a poverty alleviation model with Chinese characteristics.
Since the 18th National Congress of the CCP, poverty alleviation has provided Chinese experience and Chinese solutions for poverty alleviation around the world, and has made significant contributions to the development and progress of human society.
And it has become an important part of the social development path with Chinese characteristics. Allowing the poor people and impoverished areas to join the rest of the country in entering a moderately prosperous society in all respects is our party’s solemn commitment, and it is also China’s solemn commitment to the development and progress of the entire human society. Poverty alleviation has entered the sprint period of tackling tough problems, with tight time and heavy tasks. By 2020, the rural poor will be able to have no worries about food and clothing, and ensure compulsory education, basic medical care and housing safety. The per capita disposable income of farmers in poverty-stricken areas has increased higher than the national average, and the indicators in the main areas of basic public services are close to the national average.
Ensure that the rural poor under China’s current standards can be lifted out of poverty, remove all poor counties, and solve regional overall poverty. In the end, this battle must be fought well so that the building of a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way will be recognized by the people and can withstand the test of history.
The focus of poverty alleviation is to get rid of real poverty. It is necessary to further improve the poverty alleviation system, mobilize the whole party and the whole society to adhere to targeted poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation, strengthen the responsibility system of the number one party and government leader with overall responsibility, adhere to the pattern of large-scale poverty alleviation, give full play to the institutional advantages of concentrating forces to do great things, and focus on overcoming the task of poverty alleviation in deeply impoverished areas. The further the future poverty alleviation, the more difficult it will be, because most of the remaining poverty alleviation targets are areas and people with poor conditions, weak foundations, and deep poverty levels, and they are all “hard bones” that need to be solved vigorously.
According to the different situations of poor households, we must identify the root causes, make precise efforts, and work for a long time to ensure that no one is left behind on the road to poverty alleviation. The goal of poverty alleviation is to truly get rid of poverty. To truly alleviate poverty, we must solve the problem of endogenous driving force of development in poor areas and the problem of poor people returning to poverty after being lifted out of poverty, that is, we must not only improve the “blood transfusion” mechanism, but also form a “hematopoietic” mechanism. Since the 18th National Congress of the CCP, Comrade Xi Jinping has put forward the idea of “social policies should be underpinned” to help low-income groups not only survive, but also have development opportunities and realize the organic combination of blood transfusion mechanism and hematopoietic mechanism. In terms of basic survival, the main thing is to build a “bottom-up” social safety net to ensure that “no one can be left behind on the road to moderate prosperity.” At the same time, poverty alleviation should be organically combined with support for aspirations and wisdom, not only through the development of characteristic industries, but also through ecological migration, as well as education poverty alleviation, medical poverty alleviation, financial poverty alleviation and social security poverty alleviation.
Poverty alleviation is not the end, but the beginning of a new life and a new struggle.
To win the battle against poverty, it is necessary to:
- promote the effective connection between comprehensive poverty alleviation and rural revitalization
- promote the smooth transformation of poverty reduction strategies and work systems
- integrate them into the rural revitalization strategy, establish an institutional mechanism that combines long and short and cures both symptoms and root causes
- stimulate the endogenous driving force for the development of low-income populations in underdeveloped areas and rural areas
- implement precise assistance, and gradually achieve common prosperity.