China News Service, Beijing, September 19 (Reporter Liang Xiaohui) Talking about poverty, the ancient Chinese thinker Confucius once left a famous saying: "Poverty and lowness are what people do."

Coincidentally, the American thinker Franklin once said: "Poverty itself is not terrible. What's terrible is the thought that he is destined to be poor or must die of poverty."

　　Although living in different geographical spaces spanning centuries, poverty has become a common concern for thinkers from the East and the West.

Their famous sayings also contain a common vision that has existed for a long time in human history-to get rid of poverty.

　　Entering the 21st century, this vision has not yet been realized, and poverty eradication remains the biggest global challenge facing the world today.

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. Looking back on the history of poverty reduction of mankind, because of the joint efforts of the United Nations and other countries, this common mission of mankind has more visible hopes of realization-

　　"Eliminate poverty in all its forms and manifestations, including eradicating extreme poverty by 2030." In 2016, the United Nations launched the "United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development", taking poverty reduction as its top priority and setting a timetable for poverty alleviation for all mankind After the establishment of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations has made another effort to eradicate poverty.

　　Similarly, as a permanent member of the United Nations, it is also the world’s most populous country that has struggled with poverty for thousands of years. China has also proposed a new poverty reduction timetable after 2012: “In 2020, ensure that the rural poor under the current standards Realize poverty alleviation".

　　Because the population accounts for about one-fifth of the world’s total population, China’s poverty reduction goal in 2020 is of self-evident significance to the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

　　The most obvious is that China will achieve the UN’s poverty reduction goal 10 years ahead of schedule, and through its own population’s poverty reduction, it will “relieve” the UN’s 2030 poverty eradication goal.

　　In the past 10 years, China’s poverty population has decreased from 98.99 million at the end of 2012 to 5.51 million at the end of 2019, and poverty has been reduced by more than 10 million annually for seven consecutive years.

　　United Nations Secretary-General Guterres commented on this: "In the past 10 years, China has made the greatest contribution to global poverty reduction."

　　The Legaten Institute, an authoritative institution in the United Kingdom, released the 2019 Legaten Prosperity Index Report this year. It also pointed out that in 10 years, China’s extremely poor population has dropped from 19% of the original total population to less than 1%, and “remarkable results in poverty reduction” .

　　In the past 40 years, more than 700 million people have been lifted out of poverty in China, contributing more than 70% to global poverty reduction, and becoming the country with the largest number of people in poverty reduction in the world.

Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon once stated that China helped the UN achieve the poverty reduction mission of the Millennium Development Goals.

　　It is worth mentioning that although China’s poverty reduction is the world’s poverty reduction, China still takes the initiative to link its poverty reduction with the United Nations sustainable development agenda.

For example, after the launch of the "United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development", China took the lead in releasing country plans and progress reports for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, and released the 2019 version of the progress report last year. They all included "priority eradication" in them. Make arrangements.

　　In addition to the figures, China’s poverty reduction experience can also provide some references and enlightenments to countries fighting poverty, and increase efficiency for countries in implementing the "United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development."

　　Some observations believe that looking back on China’s poverty reduction practices, there are at least five experiences that can be used as reference for outsiders.

One is to pay attention.

China has reduced poverty with the power of the whole country. The 2020 poverty alleviation commitment has become the focus of the work of the whole country. The reduction of poverty with the power of the country has clear goals and outstanding results.

　　The second is precision.

The concept of “precise poverty alleviation” put forward by China is regarded by the outside world as a methodology for China's poverty alleviation.

For example, in the last year of achieving the goal, China accurately positioned the poverty reduction margin to 52 uncapped poor counties and 1113 villages where poverty reduction is difficult, and then implemented refined poverty reduction measures to reflect "precision." Two words.

　　The third is sustainable.

China’s poverty alleviation is to teach people how to fish, but it pays more attention to teaching people how to fish, including industrial poverty alleviation and technical poverty alleviation, which not only prevents the return of poverty, but also ensures the sustainability of poverty reduction.

　　The fourth is supervision.

While reducing poverty, China has strengthened the supervision of poverty alleviation funds, including internal party supervision, legislative supervision, and government audit supervision, to ensure that “every cent is spent on the blade” of poverty alleviation money.

　　Five is appropriate.

China's poverty alleviation has also learned from some successful international experiences, but it pays more attention to adapting measures to local conditions.

Dai Wende, the deputy representative of the United Nations Development Program in China, once said that China does not just blindly copy the experience of others, but analyzes and evaluates China's own conditions and requirements, adapts measures to local conditions, and combines the experience of other countries with China's national conditions.

　　"In this regard, China can become a model for other developing countries." Devende said.

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