(Forecast of the two sessions) How can China answer the "additional questions" brought by the epidemic when it comes to combating poverty?
China News Service, Beijing, May 15 Question: How can China answer the "additional test questions" brought about by the epidemic when it comes to war and poverty?
China News Service reporter Li Chun
"Tackling poverty is a tough battle that must be won and won. It is a solemn commitment made by our party to the people of the whole country. It promises a lot of money." After several years of hard work, China is ushering in this year of resolute battle against poverty. However, when the New Crown Pneumonia epidemic was encountered at the time of the charge, how would China fulfill its promise to win this hard battle? All circles look forward to finding answers from this year's National Two Sessions.
Anchor the poor, the poor, the sleepy, and the hardest bite
After years of hard work, China ’s poor population has decreased from 98.99 million at the end of 2012 to 5.51 million at the end of 2019, and the incidence of poverty has dropped from 10.2% to 0.6%. China has made decisive achievements in poverty alleviation. But the fight against poverty is not easy to win with a single charge. From decisive achievements to overall victory, it is still necessary to overcome difficulties.
From the task list, there are still 52 poverty-stricken counties in the country that have not taken off their hats, 2707 poor villages have not been listed, and the poor people who have established archives have not all lifted out of poverty. Although the total amount is not large, it is all poverty and poverty, and it is the most difficult "hard bone" to eat. The areas and populations that have been lifted out of poverty have problems such as insufficient employment stability. The risk of returning to poverty and causing poverty still exists. The difficulty of fighting poverty can hardly be underestimated. In this regard, the central government has a clear understanding. On March 6 this year, a forum on decisive battle to overcome poverty was held in Beijing, and Chinese top leader Xi Jinping made extraordinary mobilization and deployment at the meeting. This is also the largest meeting of the Communist Party of China in terms of tackling poverty since the 18th National Congress.
Regarding the remaining "hard bones", Xi Jinping proposed to continue to focus on "three regions and three states" and other deeply impoverished areas, implement poverty alleviation plans, aim at highlighting problems and weak links, and focus on policy implementation to overcome difficulties and complete tasks. Supervised wars were conducted in 52 uncapped poor counties and 1113 poor villages. It is necessary to consolidate the achievements of "two no worries and three guarantees" and prevent a rebound.
In recent years, the government work report has listed poverty alleviation as a priority task for that year. At the two sessions this year, how the government work report will anchor the "final task" and refine the "hard bones" of the poverty alleviation policy plan; how the delegates will combine the practical work and make suggestions for the implementation of the "road map" for poverty alleviation The suggestions will be related to the specific tactics and results of the final attack.
On May 13th, 31 villagers of Aturier Village, Zhiermo Township, Zhaojue County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, took their luggage down the steel ladder and moved to a new home in a centralized resettlement site in the poverty alleviation and relocation county of Zhaojue County. Zhang Langshe
Answer the "additional questions" brought by the epidemic
With more than 200 days left in 2020, the urgency of the fight against poverty is self-evident. Affected by the epidemic, poor laborers were prevented from going out to work, agricultural products in poor areas were unsaleable, poor transportation of agricultural tools and agricultural materials affected industrial poverty alleviation and income growth, and poverty alleviation projects such as relocation and relocation facilities were shut down. "Add test questions".
Under the premise of normalized prevention and control, how China can coordinate the two battlefields of epidemic and poverty and recover the lost time is the most direct challenge in poverty alleviation. The review found that since February this year, while preventing and controlling the epidemic, China has held several high-level poverty alleviation meetings to mobilize and deploy to cope with variables. Some commentators believe that a series of actions show that China is accelerating the pace of poverty alleviation and the quality of poverty alleviation, and seeks to use a precise policy "balancing technique" to offset or reduce the adverse impact of the epidemic on poverty alleviation.
Data Map: In a textile poverty alleviation workshop in Jingyuan County, Guyuan City, Ningxia, workers work overtime to make orders. Yu Jingshe
In this context, the central government clearly proposed that all regions should implement stratified and precise prevention and control strategies. In areas with severe epidemic conditions, while focusing on the prevention and control of epidemic conditions, they can innovate their working methods and coordinate the advancement of epidemic prevention and control and poverty reduction. In areas where there is no epidemic situation or where the epidemic situation is mild, we must concentrate our energy on accelerating poverty alleviation. In another example, the central government also required all regions to effectively solve the problem of poor sales of agricultural and livestock products for poverty alleviation, organize the integration of production and marketing, carry out consumer poverty alleviation actions, use the Internet to expand sales channels, and solve the problem of agricultural products sales through multiple channels.
At the same time of the epidemic, various localities have also constantly explored new ways to overcome poverty through tackling poverty. For example, during the epidemic, many grassroots officials broadcast live broadcasts of slow-moving agricultural products and started a new model of consumer poverty alleviation.
To manage the current complex situation of “warfare + war epidemic”, it is most likely to hedge the impact of the epidemic on poverty alleviation. It is also necessary to strengthen policy coordination and introduce specific support measures at the national level. During the two sessions, the participants expected to arrange their troops for "adding test questions" to solve the epidemic situation and make suggestions for winning the decisive battle.
Data map: Aerial photography of the resettlement site for poverty alleviation in Sandu Shui Autonomous County, Guizhou Province. Photo by Qu Honglun
A new starting point, planning a new struggle after getting rid of poverty
Getting rid of poverty is not the end, but the starting point for a new life and new struggle. This year is the ending year of the “13th Five-Year Plan”. In the future, China needs to plan in detail the new struggle after the comprehensive poverty alleviation based on the transformation of the main contradictions.
Continue to promote the effective connection between comprehensive poverty alleviation and rural revitalization. This is a major strategic task determined by the central government in the intersection and transition of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization. In fact, the 2019 government work report has already proposed to strengthen the integration of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization. During an inspection in Shaanxi Province in April this year, Xi Jinping once again pointed out that the next big article on rural revitalization should be done to promote the overall revitalization of rural industries, talents, culture, ecology and organizations.
The analysis believes that rural revitalization is a continuous strategy for poverty alleviation and the consolidation and improvement of the results of comprehensive poverty alleviation. Therefore, how to lay a solid foundation for the industry, completely remove the poor roots in the underdeveloped areas, enhance the development capacity, release the new functions of rural revitalization, and establish a system that combines the long and the short and the root cause and the root cause is the focus of the next step. In this regard, there have been useful explorations in some places.
Tang Min, Counselor of the State Council and deputy director of the Youcheng Entrepreneurs Poverty Alleviation Foundation, believes that China ’s poverty alleviation after 2020 will start a strategic change from addressing absolute poverty to alleviating relative poverty, reducing income disparities and social inequality. In a sense, this is harder to solve than the absolute poverty problem. "China will break a new path."
Standing at the starting point of new history, how to make good articles on the timing and content connection, continue to promote the effective connection between comprehensive poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, and "break a new road" should be another important topic of the two sessions of the country this year. (Finish)