Editor's note: On November 23, Guizhou Province officially announced that nine counties in the province will withdraw from the poverty-stricken counties sequence. This marks that all 832 poverty-stricken counties in the country identified by the State Council’s Poverty Alleviation Office have all lifted out of poverty.

　　The development of targeted poverty alleviation by the central unit is an important part of the poverty alleviation and development undertakings with Chinese characteristics and an important manifestation of the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics.

According to the unified arrangement, the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee is responsible for designated poverty alleviation tasks in five impoverished counties in Guizhou and Gansu provinces.

Over the years, the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee has given full play to the advantages of the united front, continuously innovated assistance methods, and fully supported the poverty-stricken counties of its counterparts.

　　From now on, this website will launch a series of reports reviewing the targeted poverty alleviation work of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee in 2020.

Central United Front Work Department fixed-point poverty alleviation in Jishishan, Gansu: alleviate poverty

　　China News Service, Beijing, December 26 (Reporter Xing Liyu) "Eliminate poverty without decoupling, remove the hat without removing assistance, the feeling and responsibility of'our Jishishan' will continue for a long time." The Central United Front Work Department Research Group In November this year, he promised when investigating targeted poverty alleviation work in Jishishan County, Gansu.

　　Jishishan County is located at the intersection of the Loess Plateau and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in southwestern Gansu Province. It belongs to Linxia Prefecture. There are 10 ethnic groups including Baoan, Dongxiang, Salar, Han, Hui, Tu, Tibetan, Uyghur, Qiang, and Mongolia. With 51.9% of the total population, it is the only settlement of Baoan people in the country.

Jishishan County is also one of the 23 deeply impoverished counties in Gansu Province, and is a key county listed in the poverty alleviation and development work of the province.

An aerial photograph of the countryside in Jishishan County.

(Data Map) Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of Jishishan County Party Committee

　　Since 1998, the former Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council designated to help Jishishan County. This land has become a concern for all the staff of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council.

The investment projects supported by overseas Chinese enterprises, the Qiaoxin Primary School, etc., are full of the strong love and support of the overseas Chinese community, and more and more are in Jishishan County.

After the implementation of institutional reforms in 2018, the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee gave full play to the advantages of the united front to help resources, and loving assistance from the united front field has continuously come to this land.

According to statistics, up to now, the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee has helped Jishishan County to overcome poverty and has accumulatively implemented donations, capital introductions and discounts of 127 million yuan (RMB, the same below).

In the process of helping, everyone kindly called Jishi Mountain "our Jishi Mountain".

　　Since the beginning of this year, the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee has continuously innovated the methods of assistance, and has fully supported Jishishan County’s poverty alleviation and the full implementation of various key tasks through project support, financial assistance, industrial poverty alleviation and intellectual poverty alleviation.

　　The China Guangcai Career Guidance Center of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (Guangcai Center for short) donated, coordinated, modified and improved the "Rural Revitalization" project of Zuojia Village in Hulin's hometown. It has secured 9.38 million yuan for the public welfare fund of Guangcai Center to implement poverty alleviation and rural revitalization in Zuojia Village, Hulin's hometown. Link projects, support 100 farmers to develop cattle and sheep breeding, build village cultural squares, basketball courts and other public facilities, implement rural road slope protection and greening projects, and improve the living environment; contact the Guangcai·Vanke Special Fund to donate the third phase of education 5 million yuan for poverty alleviation.

On July 7, 2020, in Jishishan County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province, the ecological environment gradually recovered and small yellow flowers bloomed across the mountains.

(Data map) Yin Chunyong photo

　　Since the beginning of this year, the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee has gathered the power of overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese schools to coordinate the Sino-French Friendship and Mutual Aid Association to sponsor 40 poor students in two primary schools in Jishishan County for three years; coordinate Jinan University to issue condolences to poor households and primary school teachers Gold and donated living materials.

The New Social Class Service Corps of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee donated books worth 100,000 yuan to Chuumatan Primary School, and the Industry Certified Public Accountants Association donated 100,000 yuan to the Educational Poverty Alleviation Fund for Jishishan County.

The picture shows students from Chuumatan Primary School practicing calligraphy.

(Data map) Photo courtesy of Chuumatan Primary School

　　The United Front Work Department of the Central Committee also coordinated the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation to carry out the "Youth Sight Care Gansu Tour" public welfare activity in Jishishan County; coordinated the Beijing Anzhen Hospital to screen dozens of children with congenital heart disease and those who meet the conditions for surgery He was treated.

　　In terms of consumer poverty alleviation projects, the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee has been in contact with Benlaisheng.com to promote the sale of agricultural and sideline products in Jishishan County on the Internet platform to further increase the income of the poor.

On July 7, 2020, villagers in Xiaojia Village, Liuji Township, Jishishan County raised chickens in a photovoltaic power station.

(Data Map) Photo by Yang Yanmin

　　With regard to the training of poverty alleviation cadres and professional and technical personnel, the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee adopted the forms of "going out" and "inviting in" to train county teachers and medical staff at Jinan University, and train poverty alleviation cadres at Gansu Institute of Socialism; coordinate the interaction of teachers with Jinan University Shishan County provides support for teaching and special counseling lectures.

　　Jishishan County achieved poverty alleviation throughout the county in 2019, and all 20,355 households and 101,000 registered poor people in the county were all out of poverty and withdrawn.

　　"The fixed-point assistance provided by the Office of Overseas Chinese Affairs and the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the People's Republic of China has made outstanding contributions to our victory in the fight against poverty, showing our deep family and nation feelings and selfless love in the world." said Ma Zhengye, secretary of the Jishishan County Party Committee.

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