China News Service, Beijing, April 6 (Reporter Ruan Yulin) Xia Gengsheng, deputy director of the National Bureau of Rural Revitalization of China, said at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office on the 6th that China's nearly 100 million people who have been newly lifted out of poverty will gradually enter the ranks of middle income. , Will release huge potential in consumption, industrial development, etc., benefit the people, the country and the world.

　　Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, after 8 years of continuous struggle, by the end of 2020, China has completed the task of poverty alleviation in the new era as scheduled, and the 98.99 million rural poor under the current standards have all been lifted out of poverty.

　　At the same time, the income level of the poor has continued to rise.

The white paper "China's Practice in Human Poverty Reduction" issued by the State Council Information Office shows that the per capita disposable income of rural residents in poverty-stricken areas will increase from 6,079 yuan (RMB, the same below) in 2013 to 12,588 yuan in 2020, an average annual increase of 11.6%. The growth rate continued to be faster than that of the national rural areas, and the growth rate was 2.3 percentage points higher than that of the national rural areas.

The proportion of wage income and business income of the poor has increased year by year, while the proportion of transfer income has decreased year by year, and the ability to independently increase income and alleviate poverty has steadily improved.

　　"China has won the battle against poverty. Although the basic livelihoods of the masses of poverty-stricken people are guaranteed, the income level of some of them is still not high, and there is still a certain gap between the middle income level," Xia Gengsheng said.

　　How to help the poverty-stricken groups achieve the leap into the middle-income level, Xia Gengsheng said, mainly adopt three measures. First, promote income growth through the development of industries.

On the basis of effectively guaranteeing the supply of food and important agricultural products, accelerate the development of characteristic planting and agricultural products processing, cultivate new industries and new business formats such as rural tourism, rural e-commerce, health care experience, and agricultural experience, extend the industrial chain, enhance the value chain, and build supply chain.

　　Xia Gengsheng said that at present, it is necessary to give prominence to consumption assistance. After several years of poverty alleviation, all those grown in the fields and those raised at home have entered the period of abundance. Consumption assistance should be used to turn their harvest into income and increase their income. Self-development ability.

　　Second, promote income growth by stabilizing employment.

　　"Stabilizing employment will stabilize the basic income of the people who have been lifted out of poverty," Xia Gengsheng said. This year we have set the goal of no less than 30 million people who have been lifted out of poverty. From the current point of view, the progress is quite smooth.

The main purpose is to adopt the "two-wheel drive" of migrant workers and local employment to open up the "big cycle" of migrant workers and unblock the "microcycle" of local employment.

Vocational skills training should also be carried out to improve the employability and income level of the people who have been lifted out of poverty.

　　At the same time, promote income growth through innovation and entrepreneurship. Xia Gengsheng said that the vast rural areas, especially the poverty-stricken areas, have huge potential for development, and there are many channels and opportunities for increasing income and becoming rich. They are a new world of innovation and entrepreneurship. It is necessary to continuously improve the ecology of innovation and entrepreneurship in rural areas, and encourage people who have been lifted out of poverty with strong ability, business acumen, and entrepreneurial willingness to increase their income through entrepreneurship. Promote the cultivation of rural entrepreneurial innovation leaders, rural e-commerce talents, and rural craftsmen, promote rural entrepreneurship, and drive more people out of poverty to increase income and become rich. (Finish)