（I）Special Poverty Alleviation – Main Achievements

　　In the new century, adhering to the guideline of development-oriented poverty reduction, the Chinese government  strives to further improve the basic production and living conditions in poor areas, actively promote the industrial management of agriculture, increase efforts on poverty alleviation through science and technology, improve the scientific and cultural quality of the people in poor areas, actively and steadily expand the labor dispatch of impoverished areas and steadily promote voluntary relocation. According to the basic spirit of the "Outline", under the joint support of the country and all circles of society and with the joint efforts of cadres and masses in poverty-stricken areas, progress has been made in the main work.

　　Entire Village Advancement has accelerated new rural construction. According to the characteristics of "large scatteration and small concentration" of rural poor at the new stage, the government determined 150,000 poor villages nationwide in the start-up period of the implementation of the "Outline". Through public participation, each village develops its own pro-poor programs and organizes and implements the programs annually. The Entire Village Advancement program pays attention to the work in five areas, namely infrastructure, social undertakings, industrial development, construction of spiritual civilization and the village-level democracy focusing on strengthening the ability of leading groups. All these have effectively promoted the new rural construction in impoverished areas. By the end of 2009, the Entire Village Advancement program was implemented in 100,000 villages. By the end of 2010, it is estimated, this program will be implemented in 120,000 poor villages, covering the "three- guarantees" poverty-stricken villages.

　　Transfer training has improved the quality of labor in poor areas. Since 2004, China has implemented the Rain Plan with labor transfer as the main content and successively arranged 3 billion Yuan for the program. About 4 million labors from poor families have received the trainings and more than 80% of them have successfully achieved employment transfer. Sample survey shows that the wages of the trained labors are 300-400 Yuan higher than that of those who have not received any training.

　　Poverty alleviation through industrialization has promoted the income growth of poor rural households. Combining industrial poverty alleviation with entire village advancement, contiguous development and poverty alleviation through science and technology, the government provides support for facility agriculture, industrial base, rural cooperative economic organizations and leading enterprises in poverty alleviation to increase poor farmers' income. (1) Mainly support the leading industries based on the features of poverty-stricken areas, such as potatoes, economic fruit, grassland animal husbandry and cotton. (2) Develop facility agriculture and promote disaster preparedness techniques, such as confinement feeding, greenhouse vegetables and entire membrane double ridges trench sowing technology. (3) Support the development of 625 leading enterprises for poverty alleviation to lift more than 4 million poor rural households out of poverty. (4) Provide technical, market, credit and other services for farmers' cooperative organizations in poor areas.

　　Contiguous development has adjusted the industrial structure in poor areas. In 2007, to explore approaches to the integration of the use of financial anti-poverty funds and other agriculture-related funds, the government launched the pilot projects "with county as the unit through integration of resources, entire village advancement and contiguous development". Each pilot county invested 10 million Yuan of financial anti-poverty funds. Through financial and policy integration and mechanism innovation, it encouraged relevant departments to invest the agriculture-related capital in industrial development and related projects to combine entire village advancement with contiguous development and combine poverty alleviation and development with regional economic development to promote economic development in poor areas and stable income growth of poor farmers. By the end of 2009, the pilot projects had been launched in 140 counties and good results had been achieved. The projects are welcomed by the local cadres and the masses and get support from relevant departments.

　　Poverty alleviation by relocation has changed the basic living environment. The "Outline" takes it as part of the content and one of the ways of poverty alleviation and development to steadily promote voluntary relocation. Local governments vigorously implemented poverty alleviation by relocation for the extremely poor living in harsh conditions with rare natural resources. The eastern provinces and the central and western regions with rapid industrialization take full advantage of the opportunities of industrialization and urbanization to combine poverty alleviation by relocation with the construction of counties, central towns and industrial parks to promote farmers’ transfer employment and lift them out of poverty for common prosperity through whole relocation. In most of the central and western areas, the governments combines poverty alleviation by relocation with returning farmland to forests (grassland), township merging and disaster prevention, which has not only improved the living conditions, but also greatly enhanced the level of public services.

　　Post-disaster restoration and reconstruction have created a new field of poverty alleviation. After the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, the poverty of disaster-affected areas expanded and deepened rapidly, there was a serious decline in the level of economic and social development and the resources and the environment became more vulnerable. According to the spirit of "combining poverty alleviation and development with post-disaster restoration and reconstruction", in order to help the affected poor villages quickly restore production and livelihood, poverty alleviation sector developed the “Overall Plan for Post-Wenchuan Earthquake Restoration and Reconstruction” for 4834 severely affected poor villages in 51 counties and included it into the national planning for restoration and reconstruction and the special planning for rural construction. The government actively seeks support from all parties and has conducted three batches of reconstruction pilot projects in 100 villages, implemented the plan in 70% of the poverty-stricken villages and explored a way of combining poverty alleviation and development with disaster prevention and mitigation and disaster recovery and reconstruction.