China News Service, May 8th. The Ministry of Civil Affairs held a regular press conference on May 8. Zhang Zaigang, deputy director of the Department of Social Relief of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said at the press conference that as of the end of 2020, there were a total of 4.776 million people in extreme poverty across the country.
Among them, 4.465 million were in rural areas and 311,000 in urban areas.
Zhang Zaigang introduced the newly revised "Measures for the Identification of Specially Impoverished Persons" recently issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and stated that the extremely difficult people are the most difficult and vulnerable group among the people in need, living with difficulties, helplessness, and no one to take care of.
In recent years, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has conscientiously implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, guided all localities to improve the qualifications for extremely poor people, regulated the identification of extremely poor people, and effectively included people in difficulties who meet the conditions in the scope of assistance and support, and achieved positive results.
As of the end of 2020, there were 4.776 million people in extreme poverty across the country.
Among them, 4.465 million were in rural areas and 311,000 in urban areas.
Zhang Zaigang pointed out that in April last year, the Central Office and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Reforming and Improving the Social Assistance System", which set clear requirements for the improvement of the methods for identifying extremely poor people.
In order to conscientiously implement the spirit of the "Opinions" of the Two Offices, further improve the accessibility of the assistance and support system for the extremely poor, and include more qualified facts "three no persons" into the scope of assistance and support, the Ministry of Civil Affairs is in accordance with the "State Council on Further Improving the Special Needs The "Opinions on the Relief and Support System", combined with the implementation of the system, has carried out on-site investigations and extensively listened to the opinions and suggestions of the grassroots, and revised the "Measures for Recognition".
The newly revised "Measures for Recognition" focuses on special groups, focuses on the concerns of the masses, and focuses on the goal of appropriately relaxing the qualifications for special hardship personnel and earnestly securing the bottom line of basic people's livelihood protection, focusing on the core content of the "Measures for Recognition", namely " Part of the terms involved in the determination conditions of "three nos" (inability to work, no source of livelihood, inability to define a person or a legally obliged person to perform their obligations) has been revised and improved.
At the same time, the optimization and simplified review and confirmation procedures were revised and improved, which further shortened the processing time limit.
Zhang Zaigang said that in the next step, the Ministry of Civil Affairs will instruct all localities to earnestly implement the newly revised "Recognition Measures" by conducting policy interpretation training, increasing work guidance, and strengthening performance evaluation, so as to ensure that all the people in difficulties who meet the conditions are not missed. It is included in the scope of assistance and support to ensure the realization of "should be rescued" and "should be supported", and continuously enhance the sense of gain, happiness and security of the people in need.