Poverty Alleviation Office： More than 13 million people are reduced in poverty every year, and historical breakthroughs have been made.

　　On the afternoon of October 10th, the State Council Press Office held a press conference. Liu Yongfu, director of the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office, introduced the progress and achievements in tackling poverty since the 18th CPC National Congress and answered questions from reporters. The data shows that in the past five years, China has made remarkable achievements in tackling poverty and made a historic breakthrough.

　　The number of poverty-stricken counties decreased for the first time

　　By 2020, it is a well-known goal of Chinese people to lift all the poor people out of poverty and all the poor counties out of their hats, and to eliminate regional poverty as a whole.

　　The whole of China is pushing forward the work of tackling poverty with unprecedented strength. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader personally took the lead and went out in person, and traveled to all concentrated contiguous destitute areas. More than 50 domestic inspections involved more than 30 poverty alleviation, and five inter-provincial symposiums were held in Fuping, Hebei, Yan’ an, Shaanxi, Guiyang, Ningxia, Yinchuan and Taiyuan, Shanxi, repeatedly emphasizing poverty alleviation and making a series of important instructions.

　　Data show that during the four years from 2012 to 2016, China has reduced the poverty population by 55.64 million, with an average of 13.91 million, and this year it will reduce poverty by at least 10 million. On the average of five years, the number of people who reduce poverty each year is more than 13 million.

　　Liu Yongfu said that this is an unprecedented achievement. Since large-scale poverty alleviation was launched in 1986, by 2000, the poverty-stricken population has been reduced by an average of 6.39 million per year; From 2001 to 2010, poverty was reduced by 6.73 million per year; Since the 18th National Congress, poverty has been reduced by more than 13 million people every year.

　　Not only that, in 2017, Jinggangshan in Jiangxi and Lankao in Henan took the lead in getting rid of poverty, and then a number of poverty-stricken counties will be declared out of poverty. This is the first time in history that the number of poverty-stricken counties has been reduced since they were first identified in 1986.

　　Focus on deep poverty-stricken areas

　　In deep poverty areas, the incidence of poverty is relatively high, and the basic conditions are relatively poor. The number of poor people in six provinces is over 3 million, and the incidence of poverty in five provinces is over 10%.

　　In this regard, Liu Yongfu said, the central government specially held a symposium on tackling poverty in deep poverty areas and issued supporting documents. First of all, the central government should focus on these deep poverty-stricken areas and increase capital policy and work input; Secondly, all departments of the central government should focus on the task of tackling poverty in deep areas and increase support; Third, the province has the overall responsibility to solve the problem of deep poverty within its jurisdiction.

　　In addition, there are many novel practices. For example, the government of Xizang Autonomous Region is going to move all the people who live above 4,200 meters above sea level to lower altitudes. In some deep poverty-stricken villages where the incidence of poverty is above 20%, it is necessary to implement the poverty-stricken village upgrading project, which includes infrastructure, industrial development, grass-roots organization construction, and guiding the people to change their ideas and concepts, and change stereotypes and bad habits.

　　All localities and departments played "combination boxing"

　　To solve a series of problems in poverty alleviation, it is necessary for all localities and departments to work together and play a "combination boxing".

　　In Liu Yongfu’s view, "there are too many measures" to solve the long-standing problems in the past. "In the past, after every large-scale operation, a group of poor people were left, ranging from more than 20 million to more than 30 million. These are absolute poverty. This time, we will eliminate absolute poverty completely, leaving nothing behind ‘ Pot bottom ’ 。”

　　Unprecedented and unconventional are the characteristics of these measures. In terms of organizational leadership, the management system of central planning, overall responsibility of provinces and implementation by cities and counties is implemented; In terms of financial input, the central government requires that the input should be compatible with the task of tackling poverty; In terms of financial input, there used to be only financial input, and financial participation was very small. Now finance is also involved.

　　How to establish a long-term mechanism to avoid returning to poverty is also very important. Liu Yongfu believes that it is necessary to solve the problem of building rural grass-roots organizations, and also to make good use of the first secretary and the resident team sent abroad; The most fundamental thing is to develop; In addition, a long-term mechanism should be established in education and health.

　　Our reporter Liu Shaohua.