China News Service, November 6th. Yang Xiaowei, deputy director of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Office and deputy director of the National Cyberspace Affairs Office, introduced on the 6th that my country’s network coverage targets in poverty-stricken areas have been exceeded ahead of schedule, and the proportion of optical fiber connections in poor villages has changed from less than 70% before the implementation of universal telecommunications services. % Increased to the current 98%; e-commerce has entered the countryside to achieve full coverage of 832 impoverished counties. The national rural online retail sales have increased from 180 billion yuan in 2014 to 1.7 trillion yuan in 2019, an increase of 8.4 times.
On November 6, the State Council Information Office held a press conference. Yang Xiaowei, deputy director of the Central Cyberspace Affairs Office and deputy director of the National Cyberspace Administration, Hong Tianyun, deputy director of the State Council’s Poverty Alleviation Office, and relevant officials from the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology introduced the network The implementation of poverty alleviation actions, and answer reporters' questions.
Yang Xiaowei said that the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Party pointed out that my country has made decisive achievements in building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way. The results of poverty alleviation have attracted worldwide attention and the victory of building a well-off society in an all-round way is in sight.
Internet poverty alleviation actions are an important part of winning the fight against poverty. The Party Central Committee attaches great importance to the role of the Internet in the fight against poverty.
In recent years, the Central Cyberspace Administration of China has worked with relevant departments to formulate the "Internet Poverty Alleviation Action Plan", and each year, in accordance with the Party Central Committee’s decision and deployment on poverty alleviation, it proposes targeted Internet poverty alleviation work points to ensure that Internet poverty alleviation has made substantial progress and obvious progress. Effectiveness.
Yang Xiaowei introduced that the network coverage target in poor areas was over-fulfilled ahead of schedule, and the proportion of optical fiber in poor villages increased from less than 70% before the implementation of universal telecommunications services to 98% now; e-commerce enters the countryside to achieve full coverage of 832 poor counties, and the national rural network Retail sales increased from 180 billion yuan in 2014 to 1.7 trillion yuan in 2019, an increase in scale by 8.4 times; the network intelligence assistance project has achieved remarkable results, and the Internet access rate of primary and secondary schools (including teaching points) nationwide has increased from 79.2 at the end of 2016 % Rose to 98.7% in August 2020; the online poverty alleviation information service system was basically established, telemedicine achieved full coverage of national hospitals in poverty-stricken counties and county-level hospitals, and the basic financial service coverage rate of administrative villages nationwide reached 99.2%; online public welfare poverty alleviation benefited more The impoverished people, a group of internet information companies with a sense of social responsibility and the vast number of netizens use the Internet to pass love to the impoverished people.
In retrospect, five main areas of work have been carried out:
The first is to strengthen the top-level design and improve the policy system for online poverty alleviation actions.
Since 2016, the Central Cyberspace Affairs Office has strengthened policy coordination with relevant departments to promote the five major projects of network coverage, rural e-commerce, information services, network intelligence support, and network public welfare as a whole.
Over the past four years, various departments have introduced more than 30 relevant policies and measures, and have played a set of combination punches to form an online poverty alleviation policy system.
The second is to strengthen overall planning and coordination to form a joint effort to jointly promote online poverty alleviation.
The Central Cyberspace Administration of China has established an inter-ministerial coordination work mechanism for online poverty alleviation actions involving 21 departments and units, strengthened overall coordination, departmental coordination, and upper and lower linkages, pooled policies, resources and projects, and promoted the in-depth development of online poverty alleviation actions.
The third is to pay close attention to the implementation of work, and promote the implementation of the five major Internet poverty alleviation projects.
In terms of network coverage, six batches of trials for universal telecommunications services have been implemented to open up the "last mile" of communications in poor areas.
In terms of rural e-commerce, support the development of new “Internet +” business models and models in poor areas, and enhance the blood-making function of poor areas.
In terms of network intelligence support, we will speed up school networking and promote online education to continue to stimulate the endogenous motivation of the poor for self-development.
In terms of information services, promote the "Internet + medical health" to help solve the problem of poverty caused by illness and return to poverty due to illness.
In terms of network public welfare, actively guide network information enterprises and network social organizations to participate in network poverty alleviation.
The fourth is to innovate in ways of assistance and focus on fighting the battle against deep poverty.
We concentrated our advantageous resources and projects towards the deeply impoverished areas, and successively carried out the "In-depth Online Poverty Alleviation Program" in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, Liangshan Prefecture, Guizhou and other places, and organized a group of online information companies to help poor counties in pairs.
Promote the cooperation between the eastern and western parts of the Internet for poverty alleviation, and organize the Internet information departments of eastern provinces and cities to help poor areas in central and western regions.
Fifth, take advantage of the network and do a good job in targeted poverty alleviation.
Give full play to the role of the Internet to help targeted poverty alleviation counties in Foping County, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province in poverty alleviation.
Improve the communication infrastructure, and the 5G signal coverage in the main urban area will reach 90%.
Introduce high-quality online education resources to cultivate leaders in poverty alleviation and prosperity.
Increase the online promotion of tourism resources and agricultural products in Foping to promote the development of the local tourism market and the sales of agricultural products.
The successful practice of online poverty alleviation over the past four years has fully demonstrated that the Party Central Committee’s decision to implement online poverty alleviation actions is completely correct, and that the fundamental role and sustainable advantages of the Internet in poverty eradication have been fully utilized.
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China put forward the goal of "consolidating and expanding the results of poverty alleviation" during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, and deployed the strategic task of "consolidating and expanding the results of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization".
Yang Xiaowei said that in the next step, the Central Cyberspace Affairs Office will work with relevant departments to earnestly implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Party, strengthen the responsibility of tackling tough problems, maintain the momentum of tackling tough problems, start and end well, do good work, and win the final battle of online poverty alleviation. Continue to promote the construction of digital villages, further narrow the digital divide between urban and rural areas, and inject digital power into the welfare of the people and the sustainable and healthy economic and social development.