(Authorized for release) Xi Jinping: Speech at the Symposium
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 6th
Speech at the Symposium on Decisive Victory
Xi Jinping
Comrades:
The main task of this meeting was to analyze the current situation, overcome the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, concentrate on winning the fight against poverty, and ensure that the goals and tasks against poverty are completed on time and that a well-off society is fully built.
Just now, five comrades from Nujiang Prefecture, Hotan District, Lankao County, Dahua County, and Hezhang County made speeches, and they spoke very well. I also read the written materials of each province, region, and city. On the whole, the Party Central Committee ’s decision-making and deployment on poverty alleviation has been fully implemented, and all aspects of work have achieved remarkable results. Everyone is full of confidence in winning the battle against poverty.
Since 2015, I have held seven special conferences to win the battle against poverty. In 2015, a symposium on poverty alleviation in old revolutionary areas was held in Yan'an, a forum on poverty alleviation in some provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities, and economic and social development during the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period was held in Guiyang. Held a symposium on poverty alleviation in deeply impoverished areas, held a symposium on precision poverty alleviation in Chengdu in 2018, and held a symposium on solving outstanding issues of "two cares and three guarantees" in Chongqing in 2019. Each time they focused on a theme, they also proposed face-to-face meetings. Job requirements. Before each symposium, I went to a poor area to investigate and understand the situation on the ground, listen to the opinions of the grass-roots cadres and the masses, and based on the situation I convened the responsible comrades in relevant provinces to carry out work deployment.
At the beginning of this year, I considered combining with field trips, and invited all responsible comrades in relevant places, especially those in poor counties that have not taken off their hats, to hold a meeting to study the deployment of the decisive battle against poverty. After the new crown pneumonia epidemic occurred, I also considered waiting for the epidemic to go to the local area after the epidemic was effectively controlled. However, I felt that there were less than 10 months in this year's full play, and it was 300 days in terms of days. There are many hard bones to be stricken, and the epidemic situation has increased the difficulty, and it must be mobilized and deployed as soon as possible.
The symposium was attended by the main responsible comrades of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. The 22 provinces in the central and western regions that have signed the letter of responsibility for poverty alleviation to the central government have been open to the county level. This is the largest conference on poverty alleviation since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The purpose is to mobilize the whole party and the whole society to advance poverty alleviation with greater determination and strength to ensure the final victory.
next, I will state a few of my opinions.
I. China has made decisive achievements in fighting poverty
Since the 18th CPC National Congress, we have adhered to the people-centered development thinking and clarified the goals and tasks of achieving poverty alleviation for rural poor under the current standards in China by 2020, removing all caps from poverty-stricken counties, and resolving regional overall poverty. At present, the progress of poverty alleviation is in line with expectations, and its achievements have attracted worldwide attention.
First, the target task of poverty alleviation is close to completion. China has been helping the poor since the 1980s. There are two basic situations. One is based on the standards for poverty reduction at that time, and the number of poor people will not be reduced to about 30 million, and the other is that the more they wear, the more they wear poverty-stricken county hats. This attack on poverty alleviated this trend. The number of poor people has decreased from 99.99 million at the end of 2012 to 5.51 million at the end of 2019. The incidence of poverty has been reduced from 10.2% to 0.6%, and poverty has been reduced by more than 10 million per year for 7 consecutive years. By the end of February this year, 601 of the 832 impoverished counties across the country had announced the removal of their caps, 179 were withdrawing from inspection, and 52 counties had not removed their caps. The overall regional poverty was basically resolved.
Second, the income level of the poor has increased significantly. We adhere to the development-oriented approach to poverty alleviation, and guide and support all working poor people to create a better tomorrow with their own hands. More than 90% of the poverty-stricken people who have established a file have received industrial poverty alleviation and employment poverty alleviation support, and more than two-thirds rely on migrant workers and industries to alleviate poverty. The proportion of wage income and production and operation income has increased, and the proportion of transfer income has increased. It has been declining year by year, and its ability to fight poverty has been steadily improved. From 2013 to 2019, the per capita disposable income of farmers in 832 poverty-stricken counties increased from 6079 yuan to 11,567 yuan, an average annual increase of 9.7%, which was 2.2 percentage points higher than the increase in the national per capita disposable income of farmers in the same period. The per capita net income of poverty-stricken households in the country who established a file increased from 3,416 yuan in 2015 to 9,808 yuan in 2019, an average annual increase of 30.2%. The quality level of the “two worry-free” issues for the poor has been significantly improved, and the “three guarantees” have been resolved as a whole.
Third, the basic production and living conditions in poor areas have improved significantly. All qualified villages have access to hardened roads, villages and villages have clinics and village doctors, and the operating conditions of 108,000 schools with weak compulsory education have been improved. The reliability of rural power supply has reached 99%, and the proportion of poor villages in deep-poor areas has broadband access. Reaching 98%, more than 9.6 million poor people have moved out of the poverty alleviation of “the one side cannot support one person through soil and water”. Long-standing unsolved problems such as travel difficulties, electricity use, school attendance, medical treatment, and communication difficulties have been generally resolved in poor areas, and compulsory education, basic medical care, and housing safety have been guaranteed. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, I have visited and surveyed poverty-stricken areas every year. In the past few years, the mountain roads along the way were bumpy and bumpy, and the villages were filled with pits and dirt. On sunny days, the roads were muddy. There are many family members, some poor people ca n’t eat meat several times a year, and many children do n’t go to school or drop out of school. Many people are basically sick, and they feel really heavy. In the past few years, I went to some poor villages and saw real changes. The roads were smooth and smooth, and new houses were connected one by one, so it was no problem for the poor to eat and wear. I was very happy to see the people's faces filled with sincere and simple smiles.
Fourth, the economic and social development in poor areas has accelerated significantly. We persist in overcoming the overall economic and social development of impoverished areas with poverty alleviation, and impoverished areas have shown a new development situation. Characteristic industries have continued to grow. Industrial poverty alleviation, e-commerce poverty alleviation, photovoltaic poverty alleviation, and tourism poverty alleviation have developed rapidly. The economic vitality and development stamina of poverty-stricken areas have increased significantly. Through ecological poverty alleviation, relocation of poverty alleviation and relocation, and returning farmland to forests and grasslands, the ecological environment in poor areas has improved markedly, employment channels for poor households have increased significantly, and basic public services have been improved.
Fifth, the ability to manage poverty has improved significantly. We promoted the building of the party to promote poverty alleviation, and strengthened grassroots organizations in poverty-stricken areas. Through the identification of poverty and accurate assistance, grassroots cadres have significantly improved their skills and consolidated the party's governance base in rural areas. A total of 255,000 working teams in villages were dispatched across the country, and a total of more than 2.9 million cadres of party and government agencies and state-owned enterprises and institutions at or above the county level were sent to poor villages and weak villages to serve as the first secretary or resident cadres. In particular, young cadres learned about the grassroots, learned to do mass work, and grew up quickly in practice. In the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, grassroots cadres in impoverished areas have shown strong combat effectiveness. Many village work teams have been pulled out as "epidemic prevention" teams and war "epidemic" teams, which has helped them to overcome poverty in recent years. Work experience is inseparable.
Sixth, China's poverty reduction programs and achievements have been generally recognized by the international community. After the poverty alleviation task is completed this year, China will have about 100 million poor people achieve poverty alleviation and achieve the poverty reduction target of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 10 years in advance. No country in the world can help so much in such a short period of time Lifting people out of poverty is of great significance to China and the world. The international community highly praises China's poverty reduction program. UN Secretary-General Guterres said that targeted poverty alleviation strategies are the only way to help the poor and achieve the ambitious goals set by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. China's experience can provide useful lessons for other developing countries. In the co-construction of the “Belt and Road” international cooperation, many developing countries hope to share China's poverty reduction experience. When I met with leaders of many countries or principals of international organizations, they all affirmed China's achievements in reducing poverty.
In general, we have achieved unprecedented achievements in tackling poverty, highlighting the political leadership of the Communist Party of China and our socialist system. The achievement of these achievements has condensed the wisdom and hard work of the people of all nationalities, ethnic groups, and the whole country. Here, on behalf of the Party Central Committee, I would like to extend my sincere regards to you and to all of you, the comrades on the front line of fighting against poverty!
Second, attach great importance to the difficult challenges of winning the tough battle against poverty
I have said many times that the hard battle against poverty cannot be won with a single charge. From decisive achievements to overall victory, the difficulties and challenges we face are still arduous, and we must not relax.
──The remaining task of overcoming poverty is arduous. There are still 52 poverty-stricken counties in the country that have not taken off their hats, 2707 poor villages that have not been listed, and all the poor people who have set up archives have not lifted out of poverty. Although the total amount is not large compared with the past, they are all the poor and the poor. They are the hardest bones. The "three guarantees" problem has been basically solved, but it is not easy to stabilize and consolidate. Some children drop out of school repeatedly. Many rural medical services are of low quality. Some rural dilapidated houses are not of high quality and some places are safe. Drinking water is unstable and seasonal water shortages are also present. Among the remaining poverty-stricken people who filed documents, the proportion of the elderly, the sick, and the disabled reached 45.7%.
──The new crown pneumonia epidemic brings new challenges. The impact of the epidemic on poverty alleviation is mainly manifested in these aspects. Firstly, migrant workers are blocked. According to statistics of the State Council's Poverty Alleviation Office, in 2019, there were 27.29 million poverty-stricken labors in the country who set up files to work outside the country. About two-thirds of these families' income came from migrant workers, which involved about two-thirds of the poverty-stricken people who set up files. At present, some poor laborers are affected by migrant workers. If no measures are taken, their income will decrease in a short period of time. The second is the difficulty of sales of poverty alleviation products and industrial poverty alleviation. Agricultural and livestock products in poor areas cannot be sold, and agricultural materials cannot be transported in. Production and consumption have declined, which has impacted industrial poverty alleviation and increased income. The third is the suspension of poverty alleviation projects. Projects for ex-situ poverty alleviation and relocation, drinking water safety projects, rural roads and other projects have not started sufficiently and cannot be advanced as planned. Fourth, the assistance work was affected. In some areas with severe epidemic situation, the cadres and the resident team are temporarily unable to arrive.
── It is very difficult to consolidate the results of poverty alleviation. Among the regions and populations that have been lifted out of poverty, some have a relatively weak industrial foundation, some have serious homogeneity in their projects, some are not stable enough in employment, and some have a high proportion of policy income. According to the preliminary analysis of various places, nearly 2 million people who have been lifted out of poverty are at risk of returning to poverty, and nearly 3 million people who are marginalized are at risk of causing poverty.
──Tackling poverty alleviation needs to be strengthened. At present, the biggest problem is to prevent slackening and energy transfer. I talked about this at a forum in Chongqing last year. However, as more and more poor people are lifted out of poverty and impoverished counties are taking off their hats, some places have shifted their priorities, reduced their input, and scattered their cadres' energy. Formalism and bureaucracy have been repeatedly banned. Digital poverty alleviation and false poverty alleviation still occur. In some areas, the problems of "one shot", "one share", and "one point" have not yet been effectively resolved. Some poor people develop Insufficient endogenous power.
In practice, an epidemic or disaster will have an impact on the poverty reduction process. We must take effective measures to minimize the impact of the epidemic. At present, the policy support, funding support, and working force for poverty alleviation are sufficient, and cadres at all levels have accumulated rich experience. As long as everyone is tense and intensified, they will unswervingly implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee. Ability to complete the target tasks of poverty alleviation as scheduled.
Third, to ensure the high-quality completion of the goals and tasks of poverty alleviation
Regarding the work in the final year of the fight against poverty, the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Doing a Good Job in the Key Areas of Agriculture, Rural Areas, and Farmers" to Ensure a Comprehensively Well-off Society on Schedule has been deployed, and all regions and departments must implement it.
First, overcome difficulties and complete difficult tasks. We must continue to focus on the “three districts and three states” and other deeply impoverished areas, implement poverty alleviation programs, and focus on the implementation of policies aimed at highlighting issues and weak links. To ensure that the remaining poverty-stricken people in the archives are lifted out of poverty as scheduled, and implemented supervision over 52 poverty-stricken counties and 1113 poverty-stricken villages. The State Council Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation and Development must really “supervise” the hard work, and all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities must unite their efforts to “ Battle ", Your Majesty's last hard bones. It is necessary to consolidate the results of "two cares and three guarantees" and prevent a rebound. We must strengthen the social security of the special poor people who do not have the ability to work, so as to achieve full protection.
Second, work hard to overcome the impact of the epidemic. It is necessary to implement the strategy of partitioning and grading precise prevention and control. In areas with severe epidemic situation, while focusing on prevention and control of epidemic situation, they can innovate working methods and make overall plans to advance prevention and control of epidemic situation and tackle poverty alleviation. In areas where there is no epidemic or less severe epidemic situation, we must concentrate our efforts on accelerating poverty alleviation. Priority should be given to supporting the employment of poor laborers, prioritizing the organization and use of poor labor in the areas of resumption of production, production of major projects, and the construction of logistics systems. Encourage companies to recruit more people from poor areas, especially poor families who set up cards. The Ministry of Poverty Alleviation Cooperation “point-to-point” helps poor laborers return to work as soon as possible. It is necessary to categorize and implement policies, and to increase the work of sending and receiving workers in areas where there is no epidemic. It is necessary to effectively solve the problem of poor sales of agricultural and livestock products for poverty alleviation, organize the production and marketing docking, carry out consumer poverty alleviation actions, use the Internet to expand sales channels, and solve the problem of selling agricultural products through multiple channels. It is necessary to support the poverty alleviation industry to resume production, to do a good job in spring ploughing and preparation of agricultural resources, and to make good use of industrial assistance funds and poverty alleviation microcredit policies to promote the sustainable development of the poverty alleviation industry. It is necessary to speed up the resumption of construction of poverty alleviation projects, and the tasks of relocation of supporting facilities construction, housing and drinking water safety sweeping projects must be completed in the first half of the year. It is necessary to do a good job in helping the poor and returning to poverty due to the epidemic, closely follow the situation of the poor affected by the epidemic, and timely implement support measures such as guaranteeing their pockets to ensure that their basic lives are not affected.
Third, take multiple measures to consolidate the results. At the end of last year, the State Council Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation and Development organized various localities to conduct a comprehensive investigation of more than 93 million people who had been lifted out of poverty, found loopholes and shortcomings, and required rectification one by one. Implement targeted preventive measures for nearly 2 million people who are at risk of returning to poverty and nearly 3 million people who are at risk of causing poverty, and include returning and poverty-stricken people in a timely manner. It is necessary to increase employment poverty alleviation efforts, strengthen the precise matching of labor export and import destinations, stabilize and expand posts, support leading poverty alleviation enterprises and poverty alleviation workshops to resume work as soon as possible, improve poverty capacity, and use public welfare posts to provide more nearby local employment opportunities. It is necessary to increase industrial poverty alleviation, the development of seed and breeding industry has its own rules, the cycle is long, and we must focus on long-term cultivation and support. In recent years, micro-credit for poverty alleviation has played an important role in supporting the poor to develop their production, and we must continue to uphold it. It is necessary to increase follow-up support for ex-situ poverty alleviation and relocation. More than 9.6 million poor people have been relocated in poverty alleviation across the country, and 5 million non-poor people have been relocated simultaneously in the central and western regions, which is equivalent to the population size of a middle country. The problems we have now solved are basically resolved. The next step is to stabilize, have employment, and gradually become rich.
Fourth, we must maintain a stable policy to overcome poverty. For the poor counties, poor villages, and poor people who have withdrawn, it is necessary to maintain the overall stability of the existing assistance policies and get them off for a ride. A transition period can be considered. During the transition period, the requirements of removing caps and removing responsibilities, removing caps and removing policies, removing caps and removing assistance, and removing caps and removing supervision must be strictly implemented. The task force cannot be withdrawn. It is necessary to speed up the establishment of monitoring and assistance mechanisms to prevent return to poverty, strengthen the monitoring of unstable poverty alleviation households, households at the margin that are prone to poverty, and households whose income has decreased or expenditure has increased sharply due to epidemics or other reasons. They returned to poverty and remedied.
Fifth, carry out rigorous assessments and conduct censuses. It is necessary to strictly control exit and resolutely put an end to digital poverty alleviation and false poverty alleviation. The State Council's Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation and Development shall conduct inspections and inspections, strengthen normalized supervision and guidance, and this year the central government will continue to carry out assessments of poverty alleviation efforts. Beginning in the second half of the year, the state will organize a general survey on poverty alleviation, and conduct a comprehensive inspection of the effectiveness of poverty alleviation in various places. This is a big deal. It is necessary to provide data support for the Party Central Committee to announce in a timely manner the battle against poverty and to build a well-off society in an all-round way to ensure that it can stand the test of history and the people.
Sixth, continue to promote the effective link between comprehensive poverty alleviation and rural rejuvenation. Getting rid of poverty is not the end, but the beginning of a new life and new struggle. In response to changes in major contradictions, we must clarify our work ideas, promote the smooth transformation of poverty reduction strategies and work systems, integrate them into rural revitalization strategies, and establish a system that combines long-term and short-term solutions. Relevant central departments are studying this work. In general, it is necessary to stimulate the endogenous motivation for the development of low-income regions and rural low-income population, to help implement precise assistance, and to gradually realize common prosperity. Where conditions permit, it can also be done first in combination with reality to accumulate experience for the face.
Fourth, strengthen the party's leadership to win the fight against poverty
"Its work is simple at the beginning, and it will be huge at the end." The more we fight to overcome poverty, the more we must strengthen and improve the party's leadership. Party committees (party groups) at all levels must perform their duties, fulfill their duties, and not humiliate their missions.
All poverty-stricken rural people will be lifted out of poverty under the current standards by 2020. This is a solemn commitment made by the Party Central Committee to the people throughout the country. It must be achieved on schedule without any retreat and flexibility. This is a tough battle, and the string will become tighter in the end. It cannot be stopped, careless, or relaxed. All provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities have signed military warrants and promises will be honored. Time passed and the work had to be held tightly up and down.
The central finance must continue to increase the scale of special poverty alleviation funds, and finances at all levels must ensure funding requirements for poverty alleviation. It is necessary to increase the integration of fiscal funds related to agriculture, strengthen the supervision of poverty alleviation funds, improve the efficiency and effectiveness of fund use, and make good use of land and financial policies for poverty alleviation. For places that have achieved stable poverty alleviation, all localities can make overall arrangements for special poverty alleviation funds to support poor people in non-poor counties and villages to get rid of poverty.
It is necessary to deepen the poverty alleviation cooperation between the eastern and western regions and the central government's designated poverty alleviation. At present, the most prominent task is to help the central and western regions reduce the impact of the epidemic on poverty alleviation, help in labor cooperation, and help in poverty alleviation. In the long run, poverty alleviation cooperation between the east and the west should be based on the overall national regional development strategy, deepen regional cooperation, promote the transfer of eastern industries to the western gradient, and achieve mutual development of industries, human interaction, technological inter-learning, inter-conceptual communication, and mutual learning.
The key to the high-quality completion of poverty alleviation tasks lies in the people and the style of the cadre team. It is necessary to strengthen the style building in the field of poverty alleviation, resolutely oppose formalism and bureaucracy, reduce the burden on the grassroots, and ensure the protection of work, life and security in all aspects, so that grassroots poverty alleviation cadres can be devoted to epidemic prevention and control and poverty alleviation. It is necessary to strengthen the training of key cadres in poverty alleviation, to ensure that all newly elected village cadres and newly appointed rural cadres are trained in rotation, and to enhance their ability to precisely assist and alleviate poverty.
Fighting poverty alleviation is not only done well, but also spoken well. It is necessary to focus on publicizing the Party Central Committee ’s decision-making and deployment of poverty alleviation, new measures and methods for coordinating advancement of epidemic prevention and control and poverty alleviation in various regions and departments, as well as the typical deeds of grassroots poverty alleviation cadres and the touching stories of the people in the poor areas. We must listen carefully to good-faith criticisms, opinions, and suggestions, improve our work in a timely manner, and solve problems. We must resolutely stop malicious attacks and speculation to amplify individual problems and influence the overall situation of poverty alleviation.
Comrades! The poverty alleviation work was arduous, and the epidemic was affected in the end of the year. All tasks were heavier and more demanding. We must not forget our original intentions, keep our mission in mind, strengthen our confidence, fight stubbornly, and win the all-out victory in the fight against poverty.