[China Moving Forward Steadily] Eliminating Absolute Poverty: Consolidating the Foundation of "Comprehensive Well-off"

[China Moving Forward Steadily] Eliminating Absolute Poverty: Consolidating the Foundation of "Comprehensive Well-off"

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complete elimination of absolute poverty is the lowest threshold and most basic requirement for building a well-off society in an all-round way.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has made a series of major deployments around poverty alleviation. It has proposed to achieve the goal of achieving all rural poor people from poverty under the current standards by 2020, emphasizing adherence to the basic strategy of targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty alleviation. It is required to pay attention to the dual support of "aspiration" and "intelligence" and build a large-scale poverty alleviation pattern.

Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the fight against poverty has entered a period of decisive victory. The Communist Party of China has used the power of the whole party and the whole society to fight the fight against poverty.

This year, we will lift all rural poor people out of poverty under current standards.

The fight against poverty will achieve a decisive victory.

　　Building a well-off society in an all-round way has rich connotations. Among them, the complete elimination of absolute poverty is the lowest threshold and the most basic requirement for building a well-off society in an all-round way.

General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized that “without a moderately prosperous society in rural areas, especially in poor areas, there will be no comprehensively built a well-off society.” “We can’t declare that a well-off society has been built in an all-round way, and on the other side there are still tens of millions of people living. The level is below the poverty alleviation standard line, which not only affects the people’s satisfaction with building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, but also affects the international community’s recognition of China’s comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society." To accomplish this bottom-line task, China has made extraordinary efforts , And also gained unusual achievements.

　　Eliminating poverty and realizing common prosperity are the essential requirements of socialism.

The eradication of absolute poverty is truly possible only under the strong leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.

At the beginning of the founding of New China, the party united and led the people across the country on the road to anti-poverty, focused on relief-style poverty alleviation, and worked hard to solve the basic survival needs of the most difficult people.

Since the reform and opening up, the rural poverty reduction under the leadership of the party has been intensified. Based on the comprehensive and rapid development of agriculture and rural areas, a series of reform measures and inclusive policies have been implemented to solve rural poverty problems, and a series of preferential policies for poor groups have been introduced. , The rural poverty situation has greatly changed, and hundreds of millions of rural poor people have been successfully lifted out of poverty, laying a solid foundation for advancing the construction of a comprehensive well-off society.

　　Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has made a series of major deployments around poverty alleviation. It has proposed to achieve the goal of achieving all rural poor people from poverty under the current standards by 2020, emphasizing adherence to the basic strategy of targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty alleviation. It is required to pay attention to the dual support of "aspiration" and "intelligence" and build a large-scale poverty alleviation pattern.

Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the fight against poverty has entered a period of decisive victory. The Communist Party of China has used the power of the whole party and the whole society to fight the fight against poverty.

This year, China is facing a huge test of decisive victory in the normalization of epidemic prevention and control. The Communist Party of China has used the tenacity of "fixing the green hills and not relaxing", the hard work of "do not break Loulan and will not return" and "the success does not need to be me, the success is successful. I must have my responsibility, and handed over an answer sheet that surprised the world.

　　After more than 70 years of unremitting efforts, especially the precise focus and continuous efforts to fight poverty since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country has achieved the fastest and largest poverty reduction in human history, an absolute poverty that has never been resolved in human history. The problem will be solved historically in our country.

The number of poor people in my country has decreased from 770 million in 1978 to 5.51 million at the end of 2019, and the incidence of poverty has dropped from 97.5% to 0.6%.

This year, we will lift all rural poor people out of poverty under current standards.

The fight against poverty will achieve a decisive victory.

　　my country adheres to the combination of developmental poverty alleviation and security poverty alleviation, and the combination of poverty alleviation and aspirations and intelligence support. China has explored and formed a poverty alleviation intervention system for different types of poverty and covering all poor groups, which has significantly alleviated the vulnerability of the poor.

The income level of the poor has increased substantially.

In 2019, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in poverty-stricken areas reached 11,567 yuan, and the actual growth rate was 1.8 percentage points faster than that in rural areas across the country.

The per capita net income of poverty-stricken households nationwide has increased from 3,416 yuan in 2015 to 9,808 yuan in 2019, an average annual increase of 30.2%.

The self-development ability of the poor has been significantly improved.

China’s poverty alleviation development adheres to the principle of helping aspirations first and helping intelligence as the foundation. The integration of "will" and "wisdom" maximizes the self-organization of the poor people's own elements, so that the poor people are ambitious and confident to achieve " The weaker birds fly first, and the poor first get rich."

The production and living conditions in poor areas have improved significantly, and various social undertakings have developed rapidly.

The shortcomings of infrastructure such as road traffic and electricity grids in poor areas have been supplemented, and undertakings such as education, medical care and health have developed rapidly.

All qualified organic villages have access to hardened roads, each village has clinics and village doctors, the conditions for running 108,000 schools with weak compulsory education have been improved, the reliability rate of rural power supply has reached 99%, and the proportion of poor villages in deeply impoverished areas with broadband access Reach 98%.

The continuous improvement of the rural social security network has become an important part of the rural poverty alleviation system.

Gradually establish and improve the inclusive social security system, including the new rural cooperative medical system, the rural minimum living security system, and the new rural pension insurance system, as well as the preferential social security system for the poor, and establish the bottom line for the livelihood of the poor .

　　The party's leadership is the fundamental guarantee for China's decisive achievements in poverty alleviation, and it is China's political advantage in poverty reduction.

Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the Communist Party of China has led the people to continue to declare war on poverty, and constantly change and adjust poverty alleviation policies according to new conditions and new problems. The targets of poverty alleviation have become more precise, the methods are more targeted, and the subjects have become more diverse, reflecting its superb strategic decision-making. Level.

In the process of poverty alleviation, a group of grassroots party cadres and grassroots organizations have grown up, demonstrating strong combat effectiveness and execution.

At the stage of targeted poverty alleviation, all poor villages will be equipped with the first secretary in the village. A total of 255,000 village task forces have been dispatched across the country, and more than 2.9 million party and government organs and state-owned enterprises and institutions at or above the county level have been selected to the poor and weak villages. Serving as the first secretary or cadre in the village of Huansan Village has effectively strengthened the party’s organizational execution.

　　In the process of advancing the cause of poverty reduction in New China, we took advantage of the unique advantages of the socialist system, sought a cure for poverty from the source, and established a system-based national poverty reduction model.

The establishment of the socialist system established the people’s dominant position in economic, political, and social life, clarified that meeting the people’s ever-increasing needs for a better life and the social production goals of achieving common prosperity for all members of society has fundamentally eliminated poverty. The social foundation of wealth polarization and class antagonism has not only opened up a broad path for the liberation and development of productive forces, but also created reliable institutional conditions for the eradication of poverty.

　　China's poverty reduction has not only changed China, but also the world.

China's poverty reduction has strongly promoted the world's poverty reduction process.

From a theoretical point of view, China’s poverty reduction has made important contributions to the innovation and development of international poverty reduction theories, and “systematic poverty reduction” and “precise poverty alleviation” will become a beautiful chapter in the history of human poverty reduction.

China’s poverty reduction not only proves the scientific nature of Marxism, but also demonstrates the superiority of socialism; it not only breaks down the superficial view that poverty cannot be eliminated by Western scholars, but also allows people still living in poverty to see a realistic possibility. Sex.

　　First, China's poverty reduction has accelerated the world's poverty reduction process and made outstanding contributions to the improvement of human welfare.

China's poverty reduction rate is significantly faster than that of the world, and its contribution to global poverty reduction is more than 70%. For every 100 people lifted out of poverty globally, more than 70 people come from China.

This achievement has won widespread praise from the international community.

UN Secretary General Guterres praised "China has made the greatest contribution to global poverty reduction."

Jin Yong, former president of the World Bank, believes that China's achievement in poverty reduction is one of the greatest events in human history.

　　Second, China actively participates in international poverty reduction cooperation and has contributed Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to the world's poverty reduction.

"Jointly building a community with a shared future for mankind without poverty and common development" embodies China's magnificent vision of poverty alleviation focusing on mankind.

On the one hand, China has fulfilled its commitment to global poverty reduction with practical actions.

"While China is committed to its own poverty eradication, it has always been actively engaged in South-South cooperation, providing assistance to other developing countries without any political conditions to the best of its ability, and supporting and helping developing countries, especially the least developed countries, to eradicate poverty." China has provided nearly 400 billion yuan in assistance to 166 countries and international organizations, and helped more than 120 developing countries implement the UN Millennium Development Goals.

On the other hand, China’s poverty reduction wisdom and poverty reduction programs have been universally recognized by the international community.

UN Secretary-General Guterres stated that the targeted poverty alleviation strategy is 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.

Jomo Sunderam, the head of the Economic and Social Development Agency of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, also highly praised, “China’s experience is worth learning. We also hope that China will extend its experience to the world and help more countries get rid of poverty.”

　　Achievements are certainly inspiring, and contributions are also worth remembering.

However, China is still "making progress in every possible way." Whether it is to continue to promote my country's poverty reduction or to "act actively in the field of international poverty reduction," China needs to continue to explore.

On the one hand, the historical eradication of absolute poverty is not an end, but a starting point.

Whether absolute poverty can be completely eliminated is the basic indicator of whether a comprehensively well-off society can be built, while whether relative poverty can be effectively resolved is related to the quality of a comprehensively well-off society.

Therefore, solving relative poverty is the new direction of our country's poverty reduction after the completion of a well-off society in an all-round way.

The "Communiqué" of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Party emphasized: "Resolutely win the fight against poverty, consolidate the results of the fight against poverty, and establish a long-term mechanism for solving relative poverty."

To establish a long-term mechanism for solving relative poverty, we should grasp the dynamic changes of poverty and establish a long-term identification mechanism for solving relative poverty; grasp the multi-dimensional performance of poverty and establish a long-term guarantee mechanism for solving relative poverty; grasp the underlying causes of poverty , To establish a long-term dynamic mechanism to resolve relative poverty.

On the other hand, eradicating poverty is the common mission of mankind. As a responsible major country, as a developing country that took the lead in eradicating absolute poverty, China should lead and pioneer global poverty reduction efforts to build a human destiny without poverty and common development. The community strives unremittingly.

　　(Author: Jiang Yong Mu, Sichuan University School of Economics professor)