Handan, Hebei is committed to controlling the increment of poverty
Precise poverty prevention without leaving the roots
Our reporter Song Meiqian Chen invention correspondent Wang Xiang
In recent years, a series of precise anti-poverty measures implemented in Handan, Hebei have achieved outstanding results. In 2019, Handan City achieved that no one out of the poverty-stricken households returned to poverty and no non-poor households became poor. "Handan's precise anti-poverty mechanism effectively builds a 'restriction gate' for poverty regeneration and obtains the expected effect of controlling poverty increment." Gao Hongzhi, Secretary of the Handan Municipal Party Committee, said.
“Many households in rural areas are not originally poor households, but their income is not high, and a serious illness may make the households fall into poverty and belong to marginal poverty households.” Yang Lianhai, director of the Handan City Poverty Alleviation Office, said that targeting poverty-stricken marginal households and unstable households from poverty, from 2017 Since the beginning of the year, the city has taken the lead in exploring and implementing a precise anti-poverty mechanism in the country to eliminate poverty or return to poverty caused by various reasons such as illness, school, disaster, and entrepreneurial failure.
Where does the money come from?
Establish a poverty alleviation fund
To effectively implement anti-poverty relief measures, it is an important guarantee to prepare sufficient relief funds. In order to effectively solve this problem, Handan City set up a precision poverty alleviation relief fund with the county (city, district) as the unit. The fund is raised by the county government and is sourced from financial social assistance funds at all levels, funds within the county budget, and social donations The funds are subject to dynamic management, and the county-level government that has a gap during the year is responsible for making up the surplus, and the surplus will be carried forward to the next year. "This kind of system arrangement guarantees the source of funds and ensures that the poverty alleviation and relief policies can be implemented in a long-term and stable manner." Zhang Qianqian, director of the Policy and Regulation Division of the Handan Poverty Alleviation Office.
In the use of anti-poverty relief funds, Handan City innovatively adopted the "anti-poverty insurance" approach. That is, the county-level local government and the insurance company reached an agreement to frame the number of poverty-stricken people by 10% of the rural population in the jurisdiction of the government through the purchase of services, and purchase the poverty-prevention insurance at the standard of 50 yuan per capita per year. Through the farmers 'bottom-up application, or the relevant government departments' top-down screening and early warning of poverty prevention big data, when eligible farmers need poverty alleviation assistance, the insurance company will verify and provide relief money to the rescued objects. Wei County is one of the earliest pilot “anti-poverty insurance” in Handan. Chen Ruixue, director of the county ’s poverty alleviation office, told the Economic Daily: “Insurance companies are included in the government ’s anti-poverty work. 1. The calculation of loss determination ensures professional precision; on the other hand, it effectively avoids the problems of inaction and other issues that may occur when the government department determines the rescue, and ensures fairness and justice. "
Zhang Xiangqian said that the anti-poverty insurance is nominally insured by 10%. In fact, more than 5.8 million rural population in the city are the objects of protection. Since 2017, Handan City has checked 33,704 households for poverty warning, verified 2,992 households, and issued a relief fund of 32.706 million yuan.
Who is rescued?
"Four types of situations" can apply
To effectively implement anti-poverty measures, accurate identification of anti-poverty targets is the core content. Handan City has formulated the "Handan City Implementation Measures for Precise Poverty Alleviation (Trial)", which clearly defines the identification, standards, and methods of rescued objects. The trial method stipulates that all families whose disposable income is lower than the city's rural minimum living security line and meet the "four types of circumstances" can apply for poverty alleviation assistance.
In terms of medical assistance, instable out-of-poverty households and marginalized households are hospitalized due to illness with a self-paying fee of RMB 5,000 and RMB 20,000 respectively, as a starting line for poverty alleviation and rescue. 10,000 yuan; in terms of education and assistance, the children of the poverty alleviation and assistance target children register full school status, and pay full annual tuition, accommodation, and textbooks during the full-time academic education (including top-post internships, excluding high-cost school selection) in addition to compulsory education The total fee of RMB 8 thousand is the threshold for poverty alleviation and relief, and beyond this line, a stepped rescue will be implemented. In terms of accident relief, the target of poverty alleviation and rescue will be 10,000 yuan after commercial insurance compensation and social assistance due to accidents. The poverty relief payment line, the implementation of stepped relief to reach this line, the maximum amount of one-time relief is not more than 50,000 yuan; in terms of industrial risk relief, the family's own independent management of policy-type agricultural insurance coverage of special breeding projects, In case of loss of production and operation facilities and products due to natural disasters, or loss of operation due to deduction of physical and chemical costs due to market prices, a one-time loss 05,000 yuan for the anti-poverty aid from the pay line, to carry out this line stepped assistance, households in the amount of aid up to 3 million.
Take Guan Chenxu, a villager in Nanguan Village, Guangping County as an example. In September last year, he was admitted to Hebei Media College, paying 24,400 yuan for tuition, accommodation, and teaching materials, applying for a student loan of 8,000 yuan, and paying 16,400 yuan at his own expense. Guan Chenxu's family of 6 people, the annual per capita income of family members is 4598 yuan. The county's poverty alleviation department and the insurance company verified that Guan Chenxu met the standard of education and assistance, and issued 114,400 yuan for poverty alleviation.
How not to miss?
Strictly implement pairing assistance
To effectively implement anti-poverty measures, the implementation of a point-to-point and person-to-person responsibility mechanism is an important link. Zhang Xiangqian told reporters that Handan has worked hard to implement the responsibility mechanism. In addition to giving full play to the big data accurate identification function, it also established a helper contact system for key people who may have problems of returning to poverty and causing poverty.
As early as February 2013, Handan City launched a "one-for-one" pair of support activities among the city's party cadres. Over the past seven years, more than 29,000 government officials have participated in the city. Forming a helping pair, while helping the masses get rid of poverty and becoming rich, prevent the problem of returning to poverty. At the same time, for each family that has received poverty alleviation assistance, the city stipulates that there must be a rural cadre as the household's support contact, and visit the household at least once every quarter to understand the situation of the poverty alleviation target family's protection from poverty. Find problems at any time to help solve them.
Up to now, cadres at all levels have visited more than one million people in poverty and helped solve difficulties more than 110,000 times. Among them, more than 1,700 people have been provided with employment assistance to effectively implement poverty prevention. Fall alone.
Sun Weiwei, a 29-year-old young woman in Zhao Zaolin Village, Qian Damo Township, Wei County, Handan, is a registered cardholder who has lifted off poverty. However, the conditions in the family are not good, and the income depends only on the husband working to make money, which belongs to the "unstable households out of poverty". Last year, after the county audit bureau help cadre Li Wenwen learned about the situation during his counterpart visit, he immediately contacted the village's poverty alleviation micro-factory and introduced Sun Weiwei to the factory to sew and process schoolbags. "Working here, earning seven or eighty yuan a day, income is up, life is better, now I feel much more confident." Sun Weiwei said happily.
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