(Economic Observation) Say goodbye to absolute poverty, China creates a historical miracle of poverty reduction in the world

　　China News Service, Beijing, November 23 (Reporter Ruan Yulin) On the 23rd, the Guizhou Provincial Government announced that all 66 poverty-stricken counties in the province have achieved poverty alleviation. So far, after 8 years of targeted poverty alleviation and 5 years of poverty alleviation, China has 832 impoverished counties. All decapitated, the rural poor under China's current standards are all lifted out of poverty, and the absolute poverty problem that has plagued the Chinese nation for thousands of years has been declared a historic solution.

　　Zhang Qi, dean of the China Institute of Poverty Alleviation, Beijing Normal University, said in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency on the 23rd that in accordance with strict certification standards, after so many years of hard work, China’s last batch of 52 deeply impoverished counties had all lifted out of poverty and withdrawn. This means that China’s task of eradicating absolute poverty has basically been completed, and the goal and task of "reducing poverty among the rural poor, removing their hats from all impoverished counties, and solving overall regional poverty" has been completed.

　　In November 2015, the "Decision on Winning the Fight against Poverty" promulgated and implemented by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council pointed out that China's poverty alleviation and development has entered a period of sprinting hard bones and fighting hard.

We must continue to innovate poverty alleviation and development ideas and methods on the existing basis, and resolutely win this battle.

　　As of the end of 2015, China had 14 concentrated contiguous extremely poor areas, 832 impoverished counties, and 128,000 impoverished villages, with 56.3 million impoverished populations registered.

　　The central government has made it clear that by the end of 2020, the rural poor under China's current standards will achieve the goals and tasks of getting rid of poverty, all poor counties, and resolving regional overall poverty.

　　After five years of poverty alleviation, 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 poverty incidence has dropped from 10.2% to 0.6%, and poverty has been reduced by more than 10 million annually for seven consecutive years.

　　As of February this year, there were still 52 impoverished counties in the country that had not taken off their hats, 2707 impoverished villages had not been listed, and the poverty-stricken people had not all been lifted out of poverty.

In order to ensure that the remaining poor people are lifted out of poverty as scheduled, and all poor counties have their hats removed, in February this year, the State Council’s Poverty Alleviation and Development Leading Group issued a notice to supervise the poor counties that have not removed their hats and villages with large numbers of poor people and difficult poverty alleviation.

　　As of November 23, the poverty-stricken counties in 22 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities including Guizhou, Gansu, Guangxi, Sichuan, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Hunan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Qinghai, and Hubei, have all achieved Get rid of poverty.

　　Zhang Qi said that completing such a large number of goals and tasks to eradicate absolute poverty is a victory for China in advocating the concept of precision poverty alleviation. It has accumulated valuable experience and methods for the implementation of the poverty alleviation policy system and contributed to the world's poverty reduction experience. .

　　"This is also a very important historical moment in the history of the development of the entire nation in China," said Zhang Qi. China has created a miracle in the history of poverty reduction in the world. China completed the poverty reduction goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 10 years ahead of schedule. It has played a role in driving and enhancing confidence for all countries in the world to complete their goals and tasks. Especially in the case of the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia this year, they still insist on poverty reduction, poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation as their main goals, and have completed their goals and tasks.

　　Liu Yongfu, director of the State Council’s Poverty Alleviation Office, said that after poverty alleviation, the problem of “two no worries and three guarantees” for poor people has been fully resolved, income levels and living standards have been significantly improved, and the face of poverty-stricken areas has undergone significant changes. It is difficult for people in poor areas to travel, go to school, and see a doctor. Long-standing unsolved problems such as difficult drinking water, difficult electricity, difficult communication, and living in dilapidated houses have been historically resolved. The characteristic and advantageous industries have developed steadily, the ecological environment has been continuously improved, development capabilities and endogenous motivation have been significantly enhanced, and the people have a sense of happiness. Significantly improved.

　　Liu Yongfu said that China’s great practice and historic achievements in poverty alleviation have demonstrated the Chinese Communist Party’s people-centered development thinking, demonstrated our political and institutional advantages, and effectively promoted the sustainable and healthy development of the economy and society, and contributed to the comprehensive construction of a well-off society. The society has made outstanding contributions, laid a solid foundation for the comprehensive implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, and contributed Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to the cause of global poverty reduction.

　　"Poverty alleviation is only to eliminate the problem of absolute poverty. There is still a long way to go to consolidate the results of poverty alleviation, promote rural revitalization, and achieve common prosperity," Liu Yongfu said frankly.

　　Liu Yongfu emphasized that the results of poverty alleviation will have to withstand the test of history. Only when they are consolidated and expanded in future work can they be truly won.

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