The central government's poverty alleviation project funds exceeded 79 billion yuan
Supported the construction of 281,100 projects in 22 provinces in the Midwest
Beijing News, April 29 (Reporter Qu Zhehan) Compared with the end of February, as of April 10, the capital expenditure of poverty alleviation projects increased by 52.057 billion yuan to 79.058 billion yuan, an increase of 192.58%; the number of poverty alleviation projects started increased 175,100, reaching 281,100, an increase of 165.19%; the poor labor force working abroad increased by 12.51 million to 23.53 million, an increase of 113.52%. Closely track and analyze the challenges brought by the new coronary pneumonia epidemic to poverty alleviation. The central government's special poverty alleviation funds have continued to increase in investment, and it has been tilted toward the regions affected by the epidemic. The Ministry of Finance timely adjusted and optimized the fiscal special poverty alleviation fund policy and strengthened local funds. The supervision and guidance on the issuance and implementation of policies have achieved remarkable results.
In 2020, the central government's special poverty alleviation funds will be released more than a month earlier than in previous years. Arrange 1.4 billion yuan to support 7 provinces in Hubei, Guangdong, Henan, Zhejiang, Hunan, Anhui, and Jiangxi that were heavily affected by the epidemic, including 800 million yuan in Hubei and 100 million yuan in each of the other six provinces; The four eastern provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong, where inter-provincial employment is relatively large, encourage eastern provinces to overcome the impact of the epidemic and absorb poor laborers for inter-provincial employment. At the same time, the funding arrangements were tilted to the "three districts and three states" and other deeply impoverished areas, the areas under the supervision of the war, the concentrated resettlement areas for poverty alleviation and relocation and the old poverty-stricken old areas with a large population to ensure that the key and difficult tasks of poverty alleviation were fully guaranteed.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Finance stated that from the perspective of tracking the implementation of various regions, financial departments at all levels can release funds in a timely manner, refine and implement various requirements, and issued a series of targeted measures to stabilize the income-increasing channels of poor households and consolidate the results of poverty alleviation.
First, the funding requirements of key poverty alleviation projects were guaranteed. For example, Guizhou issued 9.475 billion yuan of special poverty alleviation funds from the central and provincial governments in 2020, an increase of 35.98% over the same period of the previous year; Anhui issued 3.23 billion yuan of special poverty alleviation funds from provincial governments, an increase of 560 million yuan over the previous year, and all new parts Used in poverty-stricken old revolutionary base areas and deep-poverty counties.
The second is to accelerate the start of poverty alleviation projects. As of April 10, 22 provinces in the central and western regions have arranged 379,000 poverty alleviation projects, with a total investment of 462.601 billion yuan, 281,100 poverty alleviation projects have been started, and the operating rate is 74.17%, an increase of 42.1 percentage points from the beginning of March. Among them, the operating rate of Henan, Chongqing, Anhui and other provinces is higher than 80%.
The third is that the financial support for the poverty alleviation industry to resume work and production and the poor people to go out to work has obvious effects. Up to now, there are 28,519 poverty alleviation workshops in 22 provinces in the central and western regions, with a recovery rate of 94.92%; 29,033 leading poverty alleviation enterprises, with a recovery rate of 96.81%. 25 provinces have 23.53 million migrant laborers, accounting for 86.21% of the total migrant workers last year.