Industrial Poverty Alleviation
Poverty Alleviation of National Development and Reform Commission
【Planning for contiguous poor areas】 In 2012, the State Council approved the regional development and poverty alleviation planning of ten contiguous poor areas, namely Wumeng Mountain Area, Qinba Mountain Area, Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area, Liupan Mountain Area, Border Area of Western Yunnan, South Foot of Daxing’anling, Yanshan – Taihang Mountain Area, Lvliang Mountain Area, Dabie Mountain Area and Luoxiao Mountain Area. To effectively guarantee the quality of the provincial planning and highlight the relevance, timeliness and maneuverability, the National Development and Reform Commission (hereinafter referred to as the "NDRC") and LGOP jointly formulated the “Guiding Opinions on the Preparation of Provincial Implementation Plans for the Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation in Contiguous Poor Areas with Particular Difficulties”, held trainings for the provincial planning formulation personnel and clarified that provincial implementation plans must be developed based on local natural geographic features, resource advantage and industrial base to highlight the basic characteristics of the contiguous poor areas, reflect regional characteristics and differentiation, and focus on breaking bottlenecks, developing featured industries, improving people’s livelihood and strengthening ecological environmental protection to solve the most realistic and most pressing problems that people are most concerned about. Meanwhile, in cooperation with LGOP, NDRC established the mechanism for fixed-point contacts with the contiguous impoverished areas and designated 13 departments of the State Council to contact 11 contiguous poor areas, of which Qinba Mountain Area and Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area were under the responsibility of two departments. The 13 departments attached great importance to the work and successively carried out the relevant work, including the establishment of the joint meeting system, holding a working conference, carrying out field research, participating in the planning formulation for contiguous poor areas and the introduction of the relevant support policies. The fixed-point liaison work is being done orderly and remarkable results have been achieved.
【Preparation of annual plan】In 2012, the National Development and Reform Commission arranged central government funds of 12.3 billion yuan for work-relief and ex-situ poverty alleviation, of which 1.5 billion yuan was central budget for demonstration work-relief projects, 4.2 billion yuan was financial budget work-relief projects; raised the relocation subsidy standard from 5000 yuan / person to 6000 yuan / person, and issued 6.6 billion yuan of ex-situ poverty alleviation project funds. According to the requirements of the Budget Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the Ministry of Finance, NDRC issued in advance 3 billion yuan of financial budget for work-relief program in 2013. Supported by the central poverty relief funds, in the whole year, we relocated a total of 1.044 million rural poverty-stricken people living in the places not suitable for habitation, built basic farmland of 988,000 mu, increased and improved irrigation area of 6.372 million mu, newly built and renovated rural roads of 17,100 kilometers, solved the drinking water problem of 616,000 people and 496,000 heads of livestock, controlled soil erosion area of 2,016 square kilometers, significantly enhanced the level of infrastructure and public services in impoverished regions and effectively addressed the travel, drinking water, medical service and children’s schooling difficulties of local residents. Meanwhile, the food-for-work project issued more than 700 million yuan of remuneration for personal services. Through participating in the project construction, the masses in poverty-stricken regions directly benefited from the project and obtained a higher labor income.
【Management of poverty relief funds】 In the allocation of poverty-relief funds issued by the central government, we gave priority to extremely poor regions and people, aiming at addressing prominent difficulties and problems of the poorest villages by investing the limited relief funds in the fields where they are most needed. While striving for more relief funds, the National Development and Reform Commission further strengthened supervision and inspection on the situation of the poverty alleviation investment plan, the investment of anti-poverty funds and the project construction progress of various regions, established and improved the incentive mechanism for the implementation of the central government’s investment plan, and took the implementation of the investment plan as an important reference for the arrangement of investment programs for next year. We further standardized and strengthened the quarterly reporting system for the implementation of investment plan according to the central government’s budget, requiring the relevant regions to decompose, implement and forward the central government’s investment plan, strictly perform the basic construction procedures, actively issue local financial investment to promote the launch of eligible projects and accelerate the project construction process and capital payment. In the project construction process, we urged local department and reform commissions to carry out a comprehensive supervision, inspection and audit on the use of relief funds and the implementation of relevant projects jointly with the financial, poverty alleviation, auditing and supervision departments, and promptly correct relevant mistakes jointly with the relevant departments to guarantee the quality of the relevant projects and the safe use of central government’s investment. In accordance with the spirit of the NDRC’s work conference on the implementation of the investment plans within central budget, we urged local governments to practice management of the whole implementation process of the investment plan and achieved the goal of “four completions” by the end of this year: Completed the decomposition and forwarding of the central investment plan, completed the issuance of the central investment plan, completed the launch of all new projects covered by the plan, and completed the payment of the financial investment within central budget.
【Formulation of special program】 After the central work conference on poverty alleviation and development, the National Development and Reform Commission formulated the “Opinions of National Development and Reform Commission on the Implementation of the Spirit of the Central Work Conference on Poverty Alleviation and Development to Further Promote the Anti-poverty Work” (Fa Gai Ban Di Qu [2012] No. 90), put forward specific objectives and clarified the specific tasks. In addition, NDRC also successively prepared and issued the “‘12th Five-Year Plan’ for Food-for-work Construction” and the “‘12th Five-Year Plan’ for Ex-situ Anti-poverty Relocation” to make clear the guiding ideology, construction tasks, the relevant policies and job requirements for the Food-for-work and ex-situ anti-poverty relocation during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period. In the arrangement of the annual investment plan, based on the two "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", targeting at the key areas and focusing on the key tasks, we prioritized the work, made clear the construction timing and gave priority to the project construction in the poorest areas. Meanwhile, according to the annual investment size, we made appropriate adjustment and supplementation on the projects covered by the “12th Five-Year Plan” to ensure that the preliminary work of the projects listed in annual plan is completed and the basic conditions mature. The housing renovation, farmland, water conservancy, highroad, pastures and other medium- and small-sized infrastructures and public services projects implemented in the FFW and relocation-based poverty alleviation are directly related to people’s livelihood and welcomed by the masses, raising higher requirements for the project management. To adapt to the work requirements in the new stage, the National Development and Reform Commission revised the "National Measures on the Management of Food-for-Work Projects" and the "Opinions on the Implementation of Ex-situ Anti-poverty Relocation" and solicited the views of local governments to effectively regulate the procedure, plug up loopholes and strengthen management.
【Poverty alleviation in old revolutionary bases, minority areas, border regions and impoverished areas】 Conscientiously implemented the policy documents and regional planning issued by the Party Central Committee and the State Council on promoting the development of old revolutionary base areas, ethnic minority areas, border regions and poverty-stricken areas, and actively coordinated the relevant departments to further increase support for Xinjiang, Guangxi and Ningxia to vigorously address the prominent difficulties and problems faced by the poor areas, and give play to their comparative advantages to enhance their self-development capacity and blood-making function, thereby enhancing their economic strength and level of development. Actively coordinated the implementation of the relevant policy measures put forward by "A Number of Opinions of the State Council on Promoting the Sound and Rapid Economic Development of Inner Mongolia" (Guo Fa No.[2011] 21) and guided Inner Mongolia to break the bottleneck, improve the environment, accelerate the construction of critical infrastructure, foster the growth of a number of competitive industries with characteristics and constantly enhance self-development capacity and the level of development. In September 2012, to supervise the implementation of the policy measures issued by the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on supporting the leapfrog development of Tibet and Tibetan areas in four provinces, headed by Deputy Director Du Ying, under the leadership of the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, we organized 40 member units and more than 70 comrades to form three investigation groups to carry out field research in Tibet and the Tibetan areas of four provinces and supervise the implementation of the major projects and support policies determined by the Fifth Tibet Work Forum held by the Central Government and, on the basis of summarizing the supervision results, formed a written inspection report and submitted it to the Central Group for the Coordination of Tibetan Activities.
【Support for the regions with particular difficulties】 Under the principle of "handling special cases with special methods and dealing with urgent matters in urgently", to address the particular difficulties of some places, we mobilized all forces to mediate. Meanwhile, we vigorously supported the ex-situ anti-poverty relocation in Ningxia and other places with harsh natural conditions, issued relocation project funds of 1.34 billion yuan in two batches in 2012 to support the relocation in the central and southern areas of Ningxia and provided 140 million yuan of relocation funds for the central arid areas of Ningxia, covering 253,000 people. To further strengthen the construction of livelihood projects in Chongqing City, the National Development and Reform Commission arranged 100 million yuan of ex-situ anti-poverty relocation funds within the central budget for the resettlement of 66,700 rural poverty-stricken people living in mountainous areas. In the allocation of central financial funds for renovation of rural dilapidated houses, safe drinking water projects, rural road building, rural power grid improvement, education, medical service, food-for-work and ex-situ anti-poverty relocation projects, we gave priority to the remote border regions, minority areas and the masses in deep poverty living in impoverished regions of Yunnan Province, aiming at accelerating the poverty reduction and promoting the sound and rapid social and economic development in Yunnan. In addition, 15 million yuan of Food for Work forestry demonstration subsidies was allocated to support the adjustment of industrial structure in poor areas for ecological and economic benefits. 58 million yuan of restoration subsidies was allocated to support the repair and reconstruction of the rural roads, basic farmland and small water conservancy projects damaged in flood in the key counties for national poverty alleviation and development.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】 According to the requirements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on the fixed-point poverty alleviation work in the new stage, the National Development and Reform Commission intensified the coordination, successively sent more than 160 people to carry out field survey in four designated poor counties and dispatched relevant cadres to help solve the prominent problems in the economic development of the counties and jointly develop the poverty alleviation and development plan. We successively guided local governments to formulate and improve the "Circular Economy Industrial Park Development Plan of Tiandong County" and the "Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation Planning of Contiguous Poor Areas in Wangqing County", allocated central financial funds for fixed-point poverty alleviation to support infrastructure construction, covering education, water conservancy, health care, traffic, etc., effectively promoting the social and economic development in the regions covered by the fixed-point poverty alleviation; coordinated and promoted the implementation of a number of key projects and guided local project preparatory work in accordance with the requirements of the basic construction procedures; and successively held four trainings at different levels for 50 party and government leaders, 130 technicians, 260 rural leaders in becoming rich and 370 rural labors, improving the quality of the masses and cadres in impoverished regions and enhancing the capabilities for shaking off poverty.
(Department of Regional Economy, National Development and Reform Commission)
Poverty Alleviation of Ministry of Education
【Overview】In 2012, the Ministry of Education actively supported the education in impoverished areas, continued to issue preferential policies for the preschool education, compulsory education, vocational education and higher education in impoverished areas and increased investment to guarantee the smooth implementation of key-problem tackling for compulsory education, the renovation of junior middle school buildings in rural areas and the secondary vocational education of students from needy families in rural areas.
【Poverty alleviation by education】 Improvement of education subsidy policies at all levels. 800 million yuan of central rewards and subsidies was issued for preschool education, and nearly 8 billion yuan of central financial funds was allocated for more than 13.3 million boarding students from needy rural families in the central and western regions to enjoy living allowances, accounting for 55% of the total. The government launched the program of nutrition improvement for rural students receiving the compulsory education in the contiguous poor areas and provided nutrition subsidy of three yuan per student per day for 680 rural students receiving the compulsory education in the counties of the contiguous poor areas. Meanwhile, the living allowance standard for boarding students from needy families was raised to 4 yuan per person per day for primary students and 5 yuan per person per day for junior middle school students. The nutrition improvement program benefited nearly 30 million rural students in the contiguous poor areas. Meanwhile, the central government arranged grant-in-aid of 5.57 billion yuan for secondary vocational education to subsidize about 5.34 million students, arranged 8.07 billion yuan of funds for free secondary vocational education to benefit 12.44 million students, and allocated 4.46 billion yuan of grant-in-aid for high school students from needy families to benefit 4.91 students, 1,500 yuan per person per year; allocated special lottery funds of 200 million yuan to reward 100,000 high school students from needy families with outstanding performance; launched the university student subsidy project in 22 central and western provinces and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, invested 140 million yuan to subsidy 210,000 students from needy families in the central and western regions, accounting for 4% of the total high school graduates of local areas.
The central government issued 17.908 billion yuan of financial funds to support the construction of living facilities of rural boarding schools and the expansion and improvement of township schools, of which: 993 million yuan was used to purchase books, 2.997 billion yuan was used to purchase teaching experimental instruments, 1.132 billion yuan was used to purchase multimedia remote teaching attachments, 3.41 billion yuan was used to support the expansion and improvement of township schools and the construction of rural boarding schools, and 9.376 billion yuan was used to purchase canteen equipment. The teachers’ dormitory project for remote rural compulsory education schools with poor conditions built 860,000 square meters of teachers’ dormitories for 972 schools in the contiguous poor areas, benefiting 80,000 teachers; the rural preschool education project in central and western regions set up 650 kindergartens and increased pre-school education opportunities for 100,000 children; the special education school building projects covered 681 schools of 2.34 million square meters in the contiguous poor areas, benefiting 70,000 students; the central government issued 2 billion yuan and local governments provided 590 million yuan for the "Ordinary High School Reform Program to improve the schooling conditions of 499 high schools in the central and western contiguous poor areas, increase school building area of 1.38 million square meters, increase stadium area of 1.17 million square meters and buy books and instruments worth 340 million yuan, benefiting 1.628 million high school students; and more than 25 billion yuan of central financial funds was issued for the transformation of rural idle schools to kindergartens and the construction of kindergartens affiliated to primary schools, building a total of 60,000 kindergartens.
The central government issued 10.68 million yuan to support 406 teachers and management persons of 14 universities including Jishou University to practice in East China, and allowed the universities in East China including Sun Yat-sen University to recruit 100 doctors and 57 masters to facilitate its recruitment of the teachers of 14 universities including Jishou University for a master’s degree.
For contiguous poor areas, a special program for annual recruitment of 10,000 first-batch students was developed. In 2012, 297 universities actually enrolled 11,800 students, up 10%, increasing opportunities for the students in contiguous poor areas to receive higher education.
Set up West Yunnan Development Research Center of Yunnan University as a platform for the study of relevant policies on poverty alleviation by education; organized 10 vocational education groups (153 schools, 430 companies) in the east and 10 cities (prefectures) in the western regions of Yunnan Province to carry out strategic cooperation and provide counterpart support for the relevant vocational schools; organized the implementation of the "love kindergarten construction project", designed and developed the resources and information network platform - "Dianxi Development Network", and prepared the "Plan of the Ministry of Education and Yunnan Provincial People's Government on Accelerating the Development and Reform of Education in Western Yunnan"; established a special fund for educational development in Western Yunnan and donated 11 million yuan to 11 counties for the procurement of school cafeteria equipment. In addition, we actively mobilized 44 colleges and universities to get involved in the fixed-point poverty alleviation. 16 universities directly under the central government including Tsinghua University carried out fixed-point poverty alleviation in Western Yunnan.
The Ministry of Education, China Education Development Foundation and China Mobile Communications Corporation jointly donated for the construction of 200 "China Mobile Love Libraries" and 190 "multi-media classrooms" in the contiguous poor areas with particular difficulties to improve the conditions and enhance the informationalized level of teaching of the primary and secondary schools in poor areas.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】 The Ministry of Education was designated to provide counterpart support for the poverty alleviation and development in Qinglong County, Laiyuan County and Wuyi County in Hebei. Before the Spring Festival of 2012, the General Office of the Ministry of Education actively organized the activity of “Warmth Delivery for Spring Festival” and raised 450,000 yuan of donations. Three directors of the Ministry of Education respectively headed a team to extend condolence to the poor households and teachers in Wuyi, Qinglong and Laiyuan County. In addition, we implemented poverty alleviation projects based on the characteristics of local industries.
（Dong Yanhua, Vocational & Adult Education Department, Ministry of Education）
Poverty Alleviation of Ministry of Science & Technology
【Overview】 2012 is a key year for the implementation of the “12th Five-Year Plan” and the first year of a new stage for poverty alleviation after the launch of the “Outline for Poverty Alleviation and Development of China’s Rural Areas (2001-2010)”. Under the guidance and the overall arrangements of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development (LGOP), adhering to the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of “Three Representatives”, the Ministry of Science and Technology profoundly implemented the scientific outlook on development, gave full play to its technological advantages and earnestly implemented the spirit of the “Outline for Poverty Alleviation and Development of China’s Rural Areas (2001-2010)”, the “Notice on Further Promoting the Fixed-pointed Poverty Alleviation” and the “Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation Planning of Qinba Mountain Area”. Making use of its advantages, under the guiding ideology of “supporting industrial development by services, highlighting the concept of innovation, promoting the improvement of livelihoods to boost local development”, based on the current situation of economic and social development of poor areas and the key areas for future development, in accordance with the principle of “doing practical things and promoting the innovation and entrepreneurship in grassroots areas with great love for revolutionary base areas”, it made steady progress in fixed-point poverty alleviation and industrial poverty alleviation and made a positive contribution to the industrial and agricultural development and economic and social development of impoverished regions.
【Field research in impoverished regions】 The Ministry of Science and Technology attached great importance to field research for poverty reduction by science and technology. In 2012, we organized the field research on the counties for fixed-point poverty alleviation, Qinba Mountain Area and the rural business launching by science and technology supported by technical commissioners. Relevant comrades of seven departments and centers of the Ministry of Science and Technology carried out field research on the poor villages and relevant enterprises in the impoverished counties. Ten comrades of the 26th poverty alleviation team spent one year on an in-depth field research and spent one week on eating, working and living with local residents. In March, the Ministry of Science and Technology organized the Ministry of Railways and six provinces (municipalities) including Hebei and Shaanxi to carry out a joint field research in Qinba Mountain Area. During the research period, more than 100 researchers and experts carried out field survey in 75 impoverished counties of Qinba Mountain Area, held over 30 forums and visited more than 200 poor villages and immigration points, more than 700 poverty-stricken rural households and over 50 leading enterprises and farmers’ professional cooperatives as well. In 2012, we completed the writing of 28 research reports on poverty alleviation by science and technology.
Through conducting field research, we collected a lot of first-hand materials, got to know the common problems and prominent contradictions facing the poverty alleviation and development in poor areas and had a good understanding of the needs of impoverished regions for poverty alleviation and development, and put forward opinions and suggestions for the development of the counties involved in fixed-point poverty alleviation.
【Work conference on poverty alleviation】In order to strongly, orderly and effectively perform its duties in supporting the regional development and poverty alleviation in Qinba Mountain Area, in May, the Ministry of Science and Technology held, in cooperation with LGOP, in Guangyuan of Sichuan the "Kick-off Meeting of Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation in Qinba Mountain Area". In December, as the leading liaison units, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Railways held in Beijing the "Inter-ministerial Conference on Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation in Qinba Mountain Area" for a joint research on the poverty reduction in Qinba Mountain Area, strengthening inter-ministerial and inter-provincial communication as well as the links between relevant ministries and provinces, and guaranteeing the effective implementation of anti-poverty work in the contiguous poor area. In addition, through a series of exchange activities, the Poverty Alleviation Office of the Ministry of Science and Technology urged the relevant counties to steadily promote the in-depth implementation of various tasks. In June, the Poverty Alleviation Office of the Ministry of Science and Technology held in Ansai County the Workshop on the Fixed-point Poverty Alleviation Work of the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2012 to talk about the development of fixed-point poverty alleviation planning for the new stage with the relevant counties and key regions for liaison, and exchange experience in the construction of a three-tier rural health service platform. In September and December, we respectively held the 26th Exchange Meeting and Forum on Poverty Alleviation by Science and Technology to summarize and make deployments for the poverty alleviation work in the relevant counties.
【Scientific and technological training】 To solve the low quality and weak consciousness of science and technology of the masses and cadres of poverty-stricken areas, combining field lectures and distance training, we organized a series of scientific and technological trainings. In Qinba Mountain Area, the Ministry of Science and Technology organized 17 counties to broadcast once a week the “Spark Program for 30 Minutes” to make propaganda of national agricultural and rural policies, teach practical agricultural technology and spread information of science and technology market. To promote the development of local pig and cow breeding industry, we held trainings for more than 200 households engaged in breeding. In 2012, in the process of demonstration and promotion of new technologies, through “county-level training for towns, township training for villages and village training for households”, the poor counties held 186 agricultural technology trainings for pillar industries for 15,122 person-times. In addition, the sci-tech special commissioners of the designated poor counties were organized to carry out field survey in Heilongjiang and participate in the "Innovation Technology Management Training Course", broadening their horizons and upgrading their ideas. We guided and supported relevant regions to hold 24 trainings of scientific farming techniques and standardized herbal cultivation techniques for more than 2500 rural technical persons, further enhancing the capability of the masses and cadres in impoverished regions for self-reliance and poverty reduction relying on science and technology.
【Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship】Through close collaboration with each other, the relevant units actively mobilized internal technology resources to improve grass-roots innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities, carried out poverty alleviation by science and technology to serve pillar industries in poor counties, and turned advantageous technology resources into endogenous power of economic development in poor areas, greatly improving the ability of self-development of impoverished areas. To this end, on the one hand, we guided the colleges, universities and research institutes of relevant provinces in the contiguous poor areas to include Qinba Mountain Area in the demonstration zone for scientific research projects, support enterprises’ transformation of scientific and technological achievements to enhance innovation capabilities; On the other hand, we set up demonstration bases in the project construction sites for poverty alleviation by science and technology, introduced scientific and technological achievements and talents to promote the application of new varieties, new products and new technologies, improving the self-development ability and regional innovation capability of the contiguous poor areas.
【Industrial poverty alleviation】 With technology, market and advanced management experience, through the implementation of the Spark Program, Torch Program, the transformation of agricultural technology achievements into funds, the SME Innovation Fund and the construction of special projects of enriching people and vitalizing counties, the Poverty Alleviation Office of the Ministry of Science and Technology vigorously supported the development of pillar industries in contiguous poor areas and key counties for poverty reduction. In 2012, the Ministry of Science and Technology launched more than 90 support projects in Qinba Mountain Area with a direct investment of 95.97 million yuan, of which 80.98 million yuan was directly issued to help and guide the poor counties to declare 68 projects, including the project of "application and demonstration of tea varieties breeding and efficient cultivation techniques", the project of "application and demonstration of black tea in Colombia", etc. Through industrial poverty alleviation and the special action of enriching people and vitalizing counties by science and technology, the state directly put in 129.83 million yuan to support 73 national key counties of 20 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) for poverty alleviation and development. The Technology Support Program set the project of "study of the standardized planting of Chinese herbs and the bulk Chinese herbs development technology". Through the project implementation, the planting area of 88 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines increased to 6.53 million mu and the output value reached 39.5 billion yuan, and 290,000 jobs were created. Based on the features of economic development and the resource advantage of western underdeveloped areas, the Ministry of Science and Technology also supported 1197 projects of 11 pilot provinces including Inner Mongolia with a direct investment of 721.58 million yuan. In addition, the Ministry of Science and Technology put in a total of 19.6 million yuan to support the transformation of technological achievements in the contiguous poor areas and key counties for poverty alleviation and development, covering 28 districts and counties. The implementation of these technological projects not only promoted the technological innovation and the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in the contiguous poor areas and key counties, but also boosted the county's economic development and increased farmers' income.
【Social poverty alleviation by science and technology】In 2012, the Ministry of Science and Technology organized various social resources to donate 12.27 million yuan of materials science and technology to the designated counties, mainly supporting the construction of no-tower water stations in 20 villages of Yingshan County and the construction of the Science and Technology Museum for Shitouzui Middle School. It donated to Ansai County LED color display screens worth 500,000 yuan and solar lights worth 1.2 million yuan; mobilized Shanghai Hujiang Network to donate online foreign language learning cards worth 10 million yuan to Yingshan, Guangshan and Weixian County; coordinated the donation of one youth technology innovation operating room worth 100,000 yuan to Guangshan County Early Childhood Center; mobilized five stationery businesses to donate school supplies worth 200,000 yuan to the students of Ansai County and Jiaxian County and donate 120 computers for the schools of Jiaxian County; and mobilized veterans to provide 500,000 new books for the township rural libraries of Yongxin County. In addition, the Ministry of Science and Technology also organized the activity of “Technology Train in Qinghai Province” and donated technological materials worth 2.3 million yuan to the Tibetan areas of Qinghai. Through joint efforts of all circles of society, we have improved the living conditions of the people in old revolutionary base areas to some extent, enhanced the technology service ability of grassroots organizations and promoted the construction of livelihood projects.
（Ministry of Science and Technology）
Poverty Alleviation of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
【Overview】 In 2012, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology earnestly implemented the spirit of the central work conference on poverty alleviation and development and the “Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)”, continued to highlight the characteristics of industry and information technology by focusing on the improvement of people’s livelihood and starting with poverty-relief projects, promoted the fixed-point poverty alleviation in Nanbu County and Jialing County of Sichuan Province as well as Yonghe County and Daning County of Shanxi Province and, according to the adjustment made by the State Council to a new round of poverty alleviation work, promoted the fixed-point poverty alleviation work conversion and convergence with Luoning County and Ruyang County of Henan Province. In accordance with the requirements for poverty alleviation and development in the new era, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology took the lead in contacting Yanshan – Taihang Mountain Area for regional development and poverty reduction and earnestly performed its duties of "liaison and communication, investigation and research, supervision and guidance".
【Organizational guarantee】The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology constantly improved the relevant poverty alleviation organizations, constantly integrated and optimized the resources for poverty reduction based on former Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development and its office, strengthened the participation of various departments and bureaus, and introduced support from industry and social forces to promote the orderly implementation of fixed-point poverty alleviation and the poverty reduction in contiguous poor areas. In June 2012, in accordance with the overall arrangements of the State Council on poverty reduction, the Ministry of Information Industry became a member unit of the State Council Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development and Deputy Minister So Bo became a member of the leading group, providing a favorable organizational guarantee for further strengthening our poverty alleviation and promoting our communications with the relevant ministries and commissions.
【Mechanism construction】 The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology constantly intensified the construction of communication mechanisms for poverty reduction, strengthened daily contacts with LGOP, timely submitted annual anti-poverty work plan and summary report on the relevant information and strengthened coordination in the work. Meanwhile, we intensified the contacts with the poverty alleviation offices of Sichuan Province, Shanxi Province and the relevant cities, and actively established contact with Luoning County and Ruyang County of Henan Province, the poor counties for us to provide counterpart support in the new round of poverty alleviation. In May 2012, to promote the poverty reduction in Yanshan - Taihang Mountain Area, we formulated the "Work Plan to Promote the Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation in Yanshan - Taihang Mountain Area" and established the “one-to-one” liaison mechanism for inter-ministerial contacts as well as the contacts between ministries and provinces and the contacts between relevant units in the ministry. We not only established a working platform for inter-ministerial cooperation, but also set up a work team for the coordination with the poverty alleviation offices of Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region as well as the relevant departments of industry and information technology in the regional development and poverty alleviation in Yanshan – Taihang Mountain Area and built a work platform for the communications between the relevant ministries and relevant provinces (autonomous regions). In addition, the relevant departments and bureaus of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the relevant units established the “one-to-one” liaison mechanism with 33 impoverished counties in Yanshan – Taihang Mountain Area.
【Work conference on poverty alleviation】From November 1 to 2, 2012, Deputy Minister Liu Lihua carried out a field survey on the implementation of fixed-point poverty alleviation projects in Nanbu County and Jialing District of Sichuan Province, attended the "Signing Ceremony of Donation to Nanbu County by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology" and sent condolences to the poverty alleviation cadres.
In May and June, 2012, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology successively held the kick-off meeting on the inter-ministerial contact mechanism, the ministry – province contact mechanism and the "one to one" contact mechanism. On May 24, the conference on inter-ministerial contact for regional development and poverty alleviation in "Yanshan - Taihang Mountain Area" was convened, and it proposed to strengthen inter-ministerial communications and contacts to jointly promote the poverty alleviation in “Yanshan - Taihang Mountain Area". On May 30, the conference on ministry – province (autonomous region) contacts for regional development and poverty alleviation in "Yanshan - Taihang Mountain Area" was convened, and it proposed to strengthen the contacts between the relevant ministries and relevant provinces, established smooth channels for communication and made arrangements for the next step. On June 8, the kick-off meeting of the “one to one" contact mechanism for regional development and poverty alleviation in "Yanshan - Taihang Mountain Area" was convened. The meeting introduced the progress we made in poverty alleviation in "Yanshan - Taihang Mountain Area" and clarified the specific duties of the relevant liaison units in the “one to one” liaison work.
While promoting the regional development and poverty alleviation in "Yanshan - Taihang Mountain Area", the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology actively supported the poverty alleviation and development work in other 10 contiguous poor areas, presented concrete proposals and measures for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to support the development of the contiguous poor area, and carefully explored ways to meet the industry and information technology development needs of the contiguous poor area.
【Field research on poverty alleviation】In order to have an in-depth understanding of the current development status of the designated poor counties (districts) and the contiguous poor area and provide targeted support for local development, the relevant divisions, bureaus and units of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology organized ten field researches and held seminars on poverty alleviation in the designated poor counties (districts) for 68 person-times; carried out four overall field researches in the "Yanshan - Taihang Mountain Area", more than 40 “one to one” field surveys in the relevant districts and counties and two special investigations into Fuping County of Hebei Province, participated in the research on planning formulation for the contiguous poor area for twice, and carried out an investigation into the development status of industry and information technology in 11 contiguous poor areas nationwide to understand the implementation situation of the policy measures, key projects and funding arrangements of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in the contiguous poor area.
【Planning formulation for contiguous poor areas】 The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology actively participated in the formulation of the “Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation Planning of Yanshan – Taihang Mountain Area (2011-2020)” organized by LGOP and the National Development and Reform Commission, carried out field research on the planning formulation in the contiguous poor area with the LGOP to understand the progress and problems in the planning development, actively offered advice and suggestions on the development of industrial sector, urged the local governments to complete planning formulation according to the range of the contiguous poor areas determined by the state within the stipulated time, actively got involved in the formulation of planning for other contiguous poor areas, made careful comments on the development of industry and information technology and put forward relevant suggestions.
【Policy support】 To support the regional development and poverty alleviation in 11 contiguous impoverished areas including the "Yanshan - Taihang Mountain Area", the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued to the whole system the "Opinions of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology for the National Industrial and Information Technology System to Support the Development of Contiguous Poor Areas with Particular Difficulties", called on the cadres and staff of the whole system to give play to the advantages of industry and information technology industry and actively participate in and support the poverty reduction in various contiguous impoverished areas, focusing on promoting the application of information services, the enhancement of communication services capabilities, the development of basic skills and the implementation of industrial projects, and launched the above projects first in Fuping County of Hebei Province.
【Industrial poverty alleviation】Taking advantage of its strength in industry and information technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology actively coordinated various resources to vigorously support the enhancement of capabilities of impoverished regions for industrial development, mainly provide special guidance on SME development, the construction of public service platform, production of Chinese herbs and clean production of relevant enterprises. In 2012, with a total investment of 169.97 million yuan and a special fund of 14.62 million yuan, it supported seven projects on technological transformation of enterprises, SME development and Chinese herb production in the designated counties (districts); with a total investment of 12.98262 billion yuan and a special fund of 1.05701 billion yuan, it supported 314 corporate technological transformation projects of 11 contiguous poor areas, including 21 projects for Yanshan – Taihang Mountain Area with a total investment of 2.18763 billion yuan and a special fund of 198.64 million yuan. In Hebei Province alone, it supported 76 SME development projects of the contiguous poor counties with a special fund of 19.1 million yuan.
【Extend communication coverage to every village】To give play to the role of communications infrastructure, we continued to implement the project of “coverage of all villages” through providing telephone lines for administrative villages and natural villages, Internet access to towns and information access to rural areas. In 2012, we supported the construction of such projects in 19 provinces covered by the 11 contiguous poor areas, invested 245 million yuan for the construction of universal telecommunication service system, and provided telephone lines for 7,715 natural villages and Internet services for 17,000 administrative villages of 11 contiguous poor areas. To support such project construction in the three provinces covered by the “Yanshan – Taihang Mountain Area”, we put in 35 million yuan for the construction of universal telecommunication service system, provided telephone lines for 1,000 natural villages and offered Internet service for 3,918 administrative villages in the contiguous poor area.
【Promote poverty alleviation and development in contiguous poor areas】On the basis of extensive investigation and research on the "one to one" liaison units within the system, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology drafted an informative research report and submitted to LGOP. The report made clear the geographical location, natural conditions, resource status and infrastructure situation of the 33 counties in Yanshan – Taihang Mountain Area, analyzed the main factors restricting the development of this contiguous poor area and the problems facing local development, and made recommendations to the relevant department of the State Council for special support policies for the counties in this area. Meanwhile, based on the investigation and research, the units covered by the "one to one" liaison system took the initiative to explore new ideas and adopted relevant measures to promote the relevant work so as to boost the development of the impoverished counties in the contiguous poor areas. Based on the actual situation of business development in Fengning County, SMEs Division assisted the county to apply for SMEs Development Fund and, with a total investment of 2.94 million yuan, supported Fengning County to implement six projects, including the establishment of Fengxin Venture Counselling Base and the training base of vocational education center, SME structure adjustment and optimization project, the improvement of SMEs service environment, etc. The Department of Software Service strove to improve the social management and boost the economic development of Xuanhua County by information technology, carried out the "Study of Development Planning for the Wisdom Metro and the Information Service Industry in Xuanhua County", organized software and information services companies to provide solutions to the construction of a smart city in Xuanhua, and launched the argumentation on the “vegetable E-business website” of Xuanhua County; The Department of International Cooperation successively ordered two batches of paper-cut crafts worth several tens of thousands yuan from Weixian County as gifts of foreign affairs; The Logistics Service Bureau exchanged ideas with Huaian County for a few times and actively coordinated the implementation of relevant projects in Huaian. In addition, the relevant units of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also coordinated some poverty-relief activities, such as the donation of teaching equipment and books and the dispatch of social work teams to the countryside.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation projects】In the fixed-point poverty alleviation in Luoning County and Ruyang County of Henan Province and the Nanbu County and Jialing District of Sichuan Province, starting from poverty reduction by project construction, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology coordinated an investment of 8 million yuan and encouraged the local masses to raise 12.4262 million yuan for the implementation of 16 projects to support the construction of infrastructure and livelihood projects in the counties (districts), aiming to solve the drinking water, road, agricultural irrigation, informationization and industrial cultivation problems of local area. 5.81 million yuan was invested in the implementation of local infrastructure and livelihood projects, 1.59 million yuan was allocated to support the construction of campus security monitoring, telemedicine and broadband application projects in local area and 600,000 yuan was provided for local farming projects.
【Poverty alleviation by sending cadres】In 2012, while doing their own job in local area, four poverty alleviation cadres spared no pains to boost local economic development, actively promoted the implementation and management of the anti-poverty projects launched by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, took the initiative to coordinate the allocation of relevant resources, acted as a go-between for local residents and helped solve problems to promote the development of local social undertakings, culture and education industry. They coordinated the donation of 4.805 million yuan in kind and cash and assisted the construction of six Hope Primary Schools. Main aid projects include: three music classrooms, donation of books, a library, etc. Meanwhile, they coordinated the allocation of project funds of 1.61 million yuan or so for Nanbu County of Sichuan Province to set up the File Gallery of County government of the Qing Dynasty and for the improvement of Yonghe County Meteorological Station in Shanxi Province, making a contribution to the development of local education industry and the construction of public facilities in local area.
【Industrial and social poverty alleviation】 In the fixed-point poverty alleviation, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology gave play to the role of industry associations, enterprises, institutions and relevant units, vigorously advocated corporate social responsibility and fully mobilized various industrial sectors and social forces to participate in the anti-poverty work. Posts & Telecom Press, China Communications Photographic Society and Lenovo Group actively responded to the call of the ministry and donated more than 2.4 million yuan in kind for the designated poor counties (districts), including computers, LCD TV sets, books, musical instruments, construction of photography studios, photography reading rooms, photography training and activity bases, badminton venues, etc. the Committee on Social Responsibility of the Chinese Electronics Standardization Association, China Academy of Telecommunication Research of MIIT and CCID Research Institute actively participated in and supported our poverty alleviation work, provided labor services to carry out relevant research and provided intellectual support. Baidu, Samsung, Texas Instruments and other companies actively carried out welfare activities in the poor regions. Focusing on the key work for poverty reduction in the new stage, we gave priority to contiguous poor areas with particular difficulties and the designated poor counties (districts) in the allocation of relevant resources.
【Poverty alleviation research】 Key-problem tackling for poverty alleviation in contiguous poor areas is a new task for the anti-poverty work of China in the new stage. In 2012, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology organized the "Study of the Regional Economic Development in Yanshan - Taihang Mountain Area". Learning from the successful cases of county economy development at home and abroad, we carried out an in-depth analysis of the county economy types, development patterns and future trends and put forward suggestions for the industrial poverty alleviation in the contiguous poor area.
Gave play to the information technology superiority to promote the anti-poverty work in the contiguous poor area. In December 2012, we held in Baoding of Hebei Province the forum on the poverty alleviation by information technology in Yanshan - Taihang Mountain Area to promote the poverty reduction by information technology in the contiguous poor area. To meet the specific needs of the "three rural issues" and SME information technology service in the contiguous poor area, we contacted the relevant telecom companies to explore new ways for information services in the contiguous poor area, and actively organized the preparation of the implementation plan of industry and information technology system for the “three rural issues” information service application project in Yanshan – Taihang Mountain Area.
Actively explored innovative modes for fixed-point poverty alleviation. In 2012, the "Cases of Innovative Poverty Alleviation in Qingjiapo Village of Jishan Town in Jialing District" of Jialing District, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province – the poor district for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to provide counterpart support was listed among the 100 innovative cases of social poverty alleviation of the “Innovative Action of Social Poverty Alleviation in China” printed by LGOP. designate
【Intelligence poverty alleviation】The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology actively held trainings of technicians, management and information technology service personnel for impoverished areas, carried out SME management and technical personnel trainings for 300 person-times in the designated counties and organized three poverty alleviation trainings for 460 person-times in the designated poor counties (districts). Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Beijing Polytechnic University, which are affiliated to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, began to recruit students from the contiguous poor areas nationwide in 2012 for rural economic and social development-related majors with an enrollment plan for 30 and 60 students respectively, and actively organized the students to carry out social practice activities in impoverished regions.
【Rescue the desperately poor and help those in difficulty】 Organized the action of "University Dream", and coordinated the allocation of 100,000 yuan to help 70 poor students admitted to university in the designated counties (districts) to continue their study and realize their university dream; organized the activity of "visiting the poor" and coordinated the allocation of 60,000 yuan to send condolence to the poor in the designated counties (districts) on the New Year’s Day and in the Spring Festival, solving their immediate problems. On July 1st, we sent condolence to some poverty-stricken old CPC members to make them feel the warmth and love of the party and government.
（Ministry of Industry and Information Technology）
Poverty Alleviation of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission
【Overview】 The State Ethnic Affairs Commission (SEAC) attached great importance to the poverty alleviation and development in minority areas and took it as an important task for it to serve minorities. In 2012, in accordance with the important deployments on relevant ethnic affairs and the requirements of the “Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)”, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission made steady progress in the poverty alleviation and development in minority areas. Over the years, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission concentrated on the actions of supporting the development of minorities, vitalizing border areas and enriching the people, participated in the anti-poverty work of minorities in the minority area, did a good liaison job for the regional development and poverty reduction in Wuling Mountain Area to boost the development of local pasturing area, strengthened the fixed-point poverty alleviation and coordinated the intelligence poverty reduction in border areas to promote the poverty reduction and social and economic development in impoverished minority areas, making a contribution to national unity and progress.
【Research and statistics monitoring】 Earnestly implemented the Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas for a new decade and strengthened the investigation and research on the anti-poverty work in minority areas. In cooperation with the relevant departments of the State Council, we participated in the preparation of regional development and poverty alleviation planning for nine contiguous poor areas including Wuling Mountain Area, Wumeng Mountain Area, Yunnan – Guangxi – Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area, etc.; guided or participated in the field research and coordination meeting on the planning implementation of the relevant contiguous poor areas, organized supervision on the implementation of pro-poor policies for the relevant contiguous impoverished areas with particular difficulties and participated in the field research on the poverty alleviation and development in the relevant provinces and autonomous regions organized by LGOP.
Strengthened the overall coordination in the development of the pasturing area and the supervision on the implementation of relevant policies, assisted the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Agriculture and the National Bureau of Statistics in the investigation and research of national pastoral areas and farming-pastoral regions, participated in the field research of the “three pastoral issues” in the process of urbanization and industrialization in Qinghai and Xinjiang and put forward relevant policy proposals.
Continued to cooperate in the national rural poverty monitoring work organized by the National Bureau of Statistics and the rural poverty monitoring work in ethnic autonomous areas, summarized the progress and analyzed the new situation and new problems in the poverty alleviation and development in minority areas, providing a scientific basis for the relevant departments to formulate policies to promote the poverty alleviation and development in minority areas.
Based on the sample survey of 74,000 rural households in 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) of China organized by the National Bureau of Statistics, according to the new poverty line, in 2012, the eight provinces and autonomous regions concentrated with minority people had a poverty-stricken population of 31.21 million, accounting for 21.1% of the local rural population and 31.5% of the national rural poverty reduction targets. The proportion of rural poverty reduction objects in the rural population is 10.9% percentage points higher than the national; From the perspective of the proportion of the rural poor and the proportion of the rural residents in national total, the proportion of the rural poor of these eight provinces (autonomous regions) in national total (31.5%) doubled the proportion of its rural residents in the national total (15.3%). Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan had 24.82 million rural poverty reduction targets, accounting for 79.5% of the total of the eight provinces (autonomous regions). There was a reduction in the poverty-stricken population of the three provinces (autonomous regions), but this proportion remained unchanged compared to that of the previous year. In the new stage for poverty alleviation and development, the southwest minority areas still have a long way to go.
Annexed table: Poverty-stricken population and incidence of poverty of the eight minority provinces (autonomous regions) and the whole county in different years
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Indicators |
2009 |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
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Poverty line (yuan) |
1196 |
1274 |
2536 |
2625 |
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Poor population (ten thousand) |
8 minority provinces (autonomous regions) |
1451.2 |
1034 |
3917 |
3121 |
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China |
3597.1 |
2688 |
12238 |
9899 |
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Proportion of the 8 minority provinces (autonomous regions) in national total (%) |
40.3 |
38.5 |
32 |
31.5 |
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Incidence of poverty (%) |
8 minority provinces (autonomous regions) |
12.0 |
8.7 |
26.5 |
21.1 |
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China |
3.6 |
2.8 |
12.7 |
10.2 |
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Comparison between figures of 8 minority provinces (autonomous regions) and the whole country |
8.4 percentage points above national |
5.9 percentage points above national |
13.8 percentage points above national |
10.9 percentage points above national |
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Note: Eight minority provinces (autonomous regions) refer to five autonomous regions and three provinces concentrated with minority people, including Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Tibet, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Guizhou, Yunnan and Qinghai.
【Investment of poverty relief funds】 In 2012, in cooperation with the Ministry of Finance, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission allocated more than 2.8 billion yuan of funds for the development of minorities, up 40% over 2011, of which more than 1.7 billion yuan was issued to Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Tibet, Ningxia, Xinjiang, Guizhou, Yunnan and Qinghai, accounting for 61% of the total. In the allocation of financial loan interest subsidies for the production of special ethnic commodities, the enterprise network transformation for minority trade, and the technological innovation of enterprises producing special ethnic commodities, we continued to give priority to impoverished minority areas and accounted nearly 50% of the funds to these regions.
【Support the development of minorities】Over the two years of the implementation of the "Planning to Support the Development of Minorities (2011-2015)", smooth progress was made and tangible results were achieved in the relevant work. According to the duties of the relevant departments and units covered by the inter-ministerial joint conference system for supporting the development of minorities, five departments including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, etc. Jointly developed the plan for division of labor for the planning implementation. To implement the assigned task, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission formulated the plan for division of labor within the system. In August 2012, we convened the national conference on exchange of experience in supporting the development of minorities in Jiamusi City of Heilongjiang Province to exchange experience and practices in supporting the development of minorities and make specific deployments for the planning implementation in minority areas. The relevant leaders of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and relevant department heads led investigation teams to carry out field research and cooperated with the National development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance to further increase support for the development of minorities. In 2012, the central government issued special funds of 1.28 billion yuan, up 49%. Meanwhile, we explored the improvement of the monitoring system for supporting the development of minorities, strove for the continuous financial support of Hong Kong Member of the National Committee of CPPCC Mr. Yang Zhao for the development of education, health, planting and processing industry and grassroots cadre training in minority areas, implemented the relevant international cooperation projects and carried out relevant publicity work to promote the comprehensive implementation of the planning. In addition, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission urged and guided the relevant provinces and autonomous regions to arrange and implement the projects covered by the "12th Five-Year Plan", and the relevant regions also successively formulated local matching planning, improved the relevant policy measures and increased financial investment. In 2012, the relevant provinces and autonomous regions allocated special funds of 3.5 billion yuan (including provincial matching funds of 2.22 billion yuan) to support the development of minorities and launched 5579 aid projects in the villages concentrated with minority people, covering traffic, water conservancy, drinking water, farming and house renovation projects. Closely related to the production and living of the masses, these projects helped the minorities improve infrastructure and enhance self-development capacity and significantly improved the appearance of the villages concentrated with minority people.
【Actions to vitalize border areas and enrich the people】 The State Ethnic Affairs Commission advocated to vitalize border areas and enrich the people in 2000. In June 2011, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance jointly formulated the "Planning for the Action of Vitalizing Border Areas and Enrich the People (2011-2015)", covering 236 border counties (banners, cities and municipal districts) in Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Guangxi, Yunnan, Tibet, Gansu and Xinjiang, and 58 border farms of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Based on the actual situation of border regions and the needs of border residents, the planning highlighted the protection and improvement of people's livelihood, put forward the key tasks of improving infrastructure, protecting and improving people's livelihood, etc., identified 17 key projects and clarified the policy measures in seven aspects, including increase capital investment, increase efforts for livelihood security and industry support, etc. In August 2012, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission held the National Forum on Vitalizing Border Areas and Enriching the People in Yili Prefecture of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and summarized the situations of planning implementation in various regions to promote the action of vitalizing border areas and enriching the people. In 2012, a total of 1.386 billion yuan of subsidy funds was issued to support the action, up 34.04% over 2011. Meanwhile, the pilot area for competitive industries to vitalize border areas and enrich the people was continuously expanded and the number of pilot counties increased from 30 in 2011 to 50.
【Protection and development of featured minority villages】 In 2009, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Ministry of Finance began to implement the protection and development of featured ethnic minority villages and issued the "Guidance on the Pilot Work of Protection and Development of Featured Minority Villages". In 2012, we issued the "Outline of the Planning for the Protection and Development of Featured Minority Villages (2011-2015)" and carried out the protection and development of featured ethnic minority villages from four aspects, namely the cultivation of featured industries, the protection and transformation of dwellings with local characteristics, the protection and heritage of national culture and national unity and progress. Over the four years, the featured minority villages covered by the program increased from 121 in 2009 to more than 600 in 2012 and the central government issued a total of 510 million yuan of subsidy funds for the program, of which 128 million yuan was issued in 2012 to support the development of more than 200 villages with minority characteristics. Since the implementation of featured minority village projects, steady progress was made in the construction of demonstration zones, the infrastructures of featured villages were improved, including water and electricity facilities and roads as well and a number of dwellings and villages with distinct minority characteristics were protected. Meanwhile, characteristic tourism, featured handicrafts and specialty breeding industry all witnessed growth, and the protection and development of traditional national culture have gradually embarked on the right track.
【Poverty alleviation in contiguous impoverished areas with particular difficulties】The State Ethnic Affairs Commission conscientiously fulfilled its duties as a liaison unit of Wuling Mountain Area, actively coordinated the relevant departments and provinces (autonomous regions) to implement the regional development and poverty alleviation planning of Wuling Mountain Area and carried out a series of work. First, strengthened leadership and institutional guarantee. Established the State Ethnic Affairs Commission Leading Group of Pilot Liaison Work for the Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation in Wuling Mountain Area to coordinate the work of various departments and affiliated units of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, established the leading group for contacting the contiguous poor area with relevant leaders of the relevant departments of the State Council and the four provinces as the members and the division-level leaders of relevant departments of the State Council and the four provinces as the liaison officers, and strengthened the communications and cooperation between the relevant departments and regions. Second, coordinated and supervised the implementation of the relevant work. In 2012, we successively convened the special meeting on the commission affairs, the conference on the coordination between relevant departments of the State Council and the meeting concerning the docking between the relevant departments and the four provinces (municipalities) covered by the contiguous poor areas, and prepared the forum on poverty reduction in Wuling Mountain Area chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao in Jishou City of Hunan Province. Meanwhile, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission also carried out supervision and inspection on the implementation of pro-poor policies in in Wuling Mountain Area organized LGOP, promoted the communication and coordination between the relevant departments of the State Council and the four provinces covered by the contiguous poor areas, pushed forward local governments and relevant departments to introduce the implementation plans and special construction programs and accelerated the implementation of the planning in Wuling Mountain Area as well. Third, dispatched liaison officers and held trainings. 77 department leaders of the relevant organs and institutions affiliated to the State Ethnic Affairs Commission were selected to serve as the liaison officers of 70 counties (cities, districts) in the contiguous poor areas of Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing and Guizhou and 7 prefectures (cities) in the counties (cities, districts) covering a large number of contiguous poor areas, carry out field research, communication and coordination work and report to the relevant authority. We held the training of the second batch of cadres from ethnic work departments of Wuling Mountain Area. Fourth, gave priority to key work. we gave priority to Wuling Mountain Area in dealing with relevant ethnic affairs, especially in organizing activities to promote national unity and progress and allocating the pilot projects of protection and development of characteristic minority villages and the minority trade and handicrafts business.
【Cadre and talent team building】In 2012, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission held 43 cadre trainings for 3000 person-times for minority areas, pushed forward its affiliated universities to train minority cadres, "bilingual" talents, highly skilled personnel and rural practical talents for nearly 2,000 person-times, and cultivated 17 special technicians for minorities. In conjunction with the Organization Department and the United Front Work Department of the PC Central Committee, we sent 540 cadres of western regions and other minority areas to serve as temporary leaders in 20 provinces (municipalities) and 88 central and state organs and state-owned backbone enterprises; sent four cadres to participate in the aid work in Tibet, Yuanjiang and Qinghai, sent two cadres to work in Inner Mongolia and Guangxi, and received four cadres of the four provinces (municipalities) and two minority cadres of Yunnan Province to work in the State Ethnic Affairs Commission.
【Intelligence support for border areas】The intelligence support for poverty reduction in border areas organized by the central committees of the democratic parties and the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce under the leadership of United Front Work Department of CPC Central Committee and the State Ethnic Affairs Commission contributed ideas and did practical things for the development of impoverished minority areas, and assisted these areas to hold personnel training, develop poverty reduction planning and conduct project demonstration and consulting. Meanwhile, we coordinated the Ethnic Affairs Commission of Guizhou Province to issue 10.68 million yuan of funds from the State Ethnic Affairs Commission to support the construction of Bijie Experimental Zone in Guizhou Province, up 19.7% over 2011, and implemented more than 100 projects to help the minority people in Bijie to strengthen the rural infrastructure construction with “four accesses and one construction” (access to road, electricity, water and broadcasting and TV; construction of housing projects) as the core, improve the production and living conditions, increase production and income and hold various types of training.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】The State Ethnic Affairs Commission made unremitting efforts to push forward the fixed-point poverty alleviation work and carried out intelligence support for poverty reduction in border areas jointly with democratic parties and federations of industry and commerce. We send excellent cadres to guide the poverty alleviation work in the two designated poor counties (banners) every year, namely Balin Right Banner of Inner Mongolia and Debao County of Guangxi. Since 2000, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission has sent a total of 18 cadres to serve as temporary leaders in the two counties, mainly to promote the development of computer agriculture, the construction of well-off model villages and housing projects, the activities of expert clinic services and cadre training, boosting the development of the two impoverished counties.
Coordinated the ethnic affairs commissions of Guangxi and Inner Mongolia to invest 3.37 million yuan of central financial funds for minority development and implemented 23 projects to address the fund shortage for local infrastructure construction, the development of featured industries and the protection of villages with minority characteristics. Meanwhile, we took out some special funds for ethnic affairs to promote the fixed-point poverty alleviation work and increased the figure year by year, up to 2 million yuan in 2012, one million yuan for each county.
In 2012, we held 15 trainings for 1300 people in the two counties.
Before the Spring Festival of 2012, we sent condolences to the poor in the two counties, brought condolence payments and goods to the local residents in deep poverty and delivered party’s warmth to the poor. In sympathy activities, we carried out field survey in the demonstration zone for poverty reduction and held a forum to develop a plan for poverty reduction and development with the local masses and cadres. In recent years, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission organized the Central Nationalities Song and Dance Ensemble to offer a special performance as an expression of gratitude to the poor areas for three times, enriching the cultural life of ethnic minority people.
（Yuan Yan, Development Department, State Ethnic Affairs Commission）
Poverty Alleviation of the Ministry of Civil Affairs
【Intelligence poverty alleviation】Combining industrial poverty alleviation with grassroots cadre development, the Ministry of Civil Affairs actively carried out field research activities. In 2012, the Ministry of Civil Affairs selected 12 comrades from 11 relevant organs, departments and bureaus, mainly department leaders to carry out a one-month field research in Luoxiao Mountain Area starting from “five first” and focusing on “poverty alleviation of grassroots level” with the purpose of “two promotions and two improvements”, and achieved a number of high-quality research results, providing valuable first-hand information for the development of poverty alleviation planning and laying a foundation for the implementation of pro-poor policies in the next stage.
Selected outstanding young and middle-aged cadres to serve and promote the poverty alleviation work in Luoxiao Mountain Area. To perform its duties as a liaison unit for the poverty reduction in Luoxiao Mountain Area, the Ministry of Civil Affairs further trained the cadres, after the careful study of the leading party group, issued the "Notice on the Dispatch of Relevant Cadres to Support the Poverty Alleviation Work", formulated the "Plan of the Ministry of Civil Affairs for Sending Cadres to Promote Poverty Alleviation" and made systematic deployment on the practice of the poverty relief cadres. In December 2012, we identified three potential young and middle-aged department and bureau leaders to serve in the contiguous poor area for practice and promote the implementation of poverty reduction program there, with a demonstration effect.
Held training courses for the heads of local civil affairs bureaus in Luoxiao Mountain Area to improve the ability of local civil affairs departments to serve the people. In March, the Ministry of Civil Affairs held the Training Course for Heads of Civil Affairs Bureau in 2012, and a total of 38 heads of local civil affairs bureaus in 29 cities and counties of Jiangxi and Hunan participated in the training. The training was mainly about the poverty alleviation and the scientific development of civil affairs in Luoxiao Mountain Area and was divided into three parts, namely classroom lectures, field research and seminars, striving to make the participants learn something from the event and apply what they learn. The relevant business department heads and relevant professors of the National School of Administration were invited to deliver lectures for the training course and exchanged ideas with the participants. We organized the trainees to visit Beijing First Social Welfare Institute, the job site of 96165 community service hotline of Beijing Community Service Center, and the National Disaster Reduction Center, and held the "Forum of Participants" themed “proposals for the scientific development of civil affairs in Luoxiao Mountain Area”, achieving remarkable results and the desired goals.
【Pro-poor policies】 Accelerated the introduction of the "Opinions of the State Council on Further Strengthening and Improving the Minimum Living Security System" (Guo Fa [2012] No. 45) and put forward specific requirements for the basic principles, policy measures, job security and organizational leadership for urban and rural minimum living security work in a certain period of time in the future. This is the first time for the State Council to regulate and improve the minimum living security work since the establishment of the urban and rural minimum living security systems, and is a programmatic document to guide the healthy development of urban and rural minimum living security work. After the introduction of the document, the Ministry of Civil Affairs guided the implementation of the “Opinions” in impoverished regions, further strengthened the organization and leadership, improved relevant policies and measures, improved the working mechanism, performed the management responsibilities and strengthened capacity building to promote the healthy development of the minimum living security work.
Issued the “Measures on the Management of Urban and Rural Subsistence Allowances” (Cai She [2012] No. 171) jointly with the Ministry of Finance to guide the collection, allocation, issuance and supervision of urban and rural subsistence allowances in impoverished regions, strengthen the management of urban and rural subsistence allowances and improve the efficiency of the subsistence allowances.
In cooperation with the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Finance, we issued the "Opinions on the Pilot Work of Medical Assistance for Major Diseases" (Man Fa [2012] No. 12) to guide poor areas to further clarify the targets, principles, main contents and department duties of the pilot projects of medical assistance for major diseases and carry out the pilot work.
Jointly with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Finance, we issued the "Opinions on the Convergence of the New Rural and Urban Residents’ Social Endowment Insurance System, the Urban and Rural Minimum Living Security System and the Rural Five-guarantee System" (Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Fa [ 2012 ] No. 15) to guide the impoverished regions to follow the principle of only overlay, no deductions, no write-off and combining existing policy in calculating allowances of the objects of the above systems, and ensure that existing treatment levels are not lowered in approving or verifying the objects of the minimum living security systems and the five-guarantee system, with basic pension determined by the central government not included in household income.
In cooperation with the National Bureau of Statistics, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the LGOP, we issued the "Circular on Further Strengthening Rural Poverty Monitoring Work" ( Guo Tong Zi [2012] No. 21) to guide poor areas to provide references for improving rural minimum living security work by expanding the coverage of monitoring, improving the investigation methods, strengthening the analysis and estimating the number and distribution of the rural residents without adequate food and clothing to promote the effective convergence of the two systems.
In the study of the development of "Medium- and Long-term Plan for the Construction of Professional Social Work Team (2011- 2020)" and the "Guidance of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Finance for the Government to Purchase Social Work Service", we included the construction of a professional social work team in impoverished regions into the key support range and guided the rational flow of resources of social work towards local area.
【Rural minimum living security system】In 2012, the rural minimum living security system had a total of 5,344.5 million objects, at basically the same level of the previous year; the rural subsistence allowance standard was 2067.8 yuan per person per year, the annual subsidy was 1247.9 yuan per capita, up 20.3% over 2011, and a total of 71.8 billion yuan of rural subsistence allowances was issued, including 43.14 billion yuan of financial subsidy funds from the central government.
【Rural five-guarantee system】 In 2012, the rural five-guarantee system had a total of 5,456,000 objects, of which 1,853,000 were the objects for centralized support; the subsidy standard for the objects of centralized support was 4060.9 yuan per person per year and that for the objects of scattered support was 3008 yuan per person per year, respectively up 19.4% and 21.8%, and a total of 14.5 billion yuan was allocated for the objects of the five-guarantee system. Meanwhile, we continued to implement the "Rays Plan for the Construction of Five-guarantee Service Facilities in Rural Areas" and allocated 150 million yuan of the ministry’s lottery funds to support the construction of 668 five-guarantees service agencies in rural areas.
【Rural medical assistance】In 2012, a total of 65.94 million people received rural medical assistance in China, of which 13.66 million people received direct relief; and 14.4 billion yuan was issued, of which 11.8 billion yuan was for direct relief. The per capita rescue fund for hospitalization, per capita outpatient rescue fund and per capita subsidy for insurance and cooperative medical system participation respectively reached 1,611 yuan, 182 yuan and 51 yuan.
【Disaster relief】In 2012, the National Committee for Disaster Reduction and the Ministry of Civil Affairs started early warning response for nine times and emergency responses for 32 times, coordinated the dispatch of 36 work teams to guide the disaster-relief work in the affected areas, promptly allocated central disaster relief funds of 9.355 billion yuan, allocated 63,600 tents, 415,500 cotton-padded clothes and quilt and 14,000 folded beds to the affected areas, effectively helping the disaster areas solve the difficulties faced by the basic livelihood of the affected people.
【Poverty alleviation by NGOs】 The central government supported social organizations to participate in social service projects. In 2012, 200 million yuan of central budget was issued to support social organizations to participate in social services, mainly subsidize the social organizations in the western poor areas of Sichuan, Yunnan, Tibet, Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang to provide the aged with relevant services, medical assistance and relief for the affected people. The Ministry of Civil Affairs attached great importance to the work, set up the project leading group, formulated the project management approaches, project implementation plan, project audit plan, assessment guidelines for assessment and guidelines for financial management, successively held nine meetings on the work, gave instruction to the work in ten regions and carried out assessment of 377 projects. So far, all the funds have been issued in full and smooth progress was made in the relevant activities.
The program of "Love for Tianshan - Joint Action of National Foundations and NGOs to Support Xinjiang": The "Love for Tianshan - Joint Action of National Foundations and NGOs to Support Xinjiang" participated by some national foundations and NGOs that was organized by the Ministry of Civil Affairs at the end of 2011 achieved remarkable results and won good social repercussions. 16 national foundations and NGOs including China Foundation for Disabled Persons (CFDP) and Shenhua Foundation for Public Welfare as well as the relevant units designated to provide counterpart support for Xinjiang signed 17 aid projects worth 72.305 million yuan, involving the construction of facilities for the elderly, nutrition meal donation for poor children and serious illness relief, etc.
(Ministry of Civil Affairs)
Poverty Alleviation of Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security
【Poverty alleviation by employment】In 2012, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (hereinafter referred to as "MHRSS") continued to increase efforts to support employment in poor areas, actively implemented the "Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China's Rural Areas (2011-2020)" and strengthened public employment services in poor areas to promote the labor employment and stable employment in impoverished regions. First, constantly promoted the construction of public employment and personnel service system. In cooperation with the Ministry of Finance, in the allocation of central financial employment funds in 2012, we increased support for Wuling Mountain Area, Xinjiang, Tibet and the Tibetan areas of four provinces. Meanwhile, we guided the impoverished areas to strengthen public employment and personnel service system building and comprehensively implement free services and related systems; according to the requirements of institutionalization, professionalization and socialization, we made clear the service standards and increased the service contents to enhance the employment service ability of poor areas. We strengthened the informationization construction for public employment and personnel service, opened up the National Public Employment Service Website and put it into operation, and achieved the linkage with the service network of impoverished regions, providing employment information services for the employment transfer of labors in poor areas and for university graduates to work in poor areas. Second, carried out special activities. In conjunction with the All-China Federation of Trade Unions and the All-China Women’s Federation, we organized the “Spring Breeze Action” with the theme of "building a docking platform for labor services to help you find a job as soon as possible", carried out field research on job information, organized job fairs, strengthened employment services to meet the employment needs of the migrant workers and the recruitment needs of relevant enterprises in a certain period of time after the Spring Festival, and helped the rural surplus labors in poor areas to achieve employment transfer. Jointly with China Disabled Persons' Federation, we carried out the activity of employment service month themed “support and jobs for specific individuals, full implementation of relevant policies and good services”, tried to have a deep understanding of the employment needs and actively implemented the employment support policies to help the people with difficulties in employment and the registered unemployed people with disabilities in poor areas find jobs and achieve stable employment. Third, promoted the multi-channel employment transfer of the labors in poor areas. We held the work conference on rural labor transfer in demonstration counties, summarized and promoted the experience in non-local labor service, local labor transfer and business launching of the returned villagers and encouraged multi-channel employment transfer, aiming to promote the labor transfer in poor areas through demonstration. In addition, we strengthened the guidance on rural labor employment monitoring, further made clear the situation and constantly promoted the labor transfer in impoverished regions.
【Overview of fixed-point poverty alleviation】In 2012, with the high attention and strong leadership of the ministry’s party leading group, giving full play to the functional advantage, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security continued to promote the sound, coordinated and sustained social and economic development in the designated poor counties and achieved remarkable results in the fixed-point poverty alleviation. After years of hard work, with support from parties concerned, the basic production and living conditions of the three poor counties (Tianzhen County of Shanxi Province, Huoshan County and Jinzhai County of Anhui Province) were greatly improved, and substantial progress was made in the economic and social development. In October 2012, LGOP removed Huoshan County of Anhui Province from the name list of key counties for national poverty alleviation and development and increased Dangshan County in the name list. The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security is still responsible for providing counterpart support for three national key counties for poverty alleviation and development.
【Poverty alleviation by sending cadres】In 2012, we sent four cadres to serve in the poor counties, of which three served as members of the standing committee of the county party committee and deputy county chiefs, and one served as the deputy county chief.
【Intelligence poverty alleviation】In 2012, the seminars of department cadres, trainings of division cadres and trainings of young cadres held by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security as well as the East-West civil servant pairing-off poverty reduction training courses held by the bureau of civil servants respectively attracted more than 20 people to participate, including the young cadres or the organs, town cadres and county leaders of the relevant key counties. The trainings and exchange with the organ leaders of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security broadened the horizons and thinking of the cadres of the poor counties, enriched their knowledge and enhanced their poverty alleviation capacity.
Actively held professional and technical personnel trainings. We coordinated and arranged some teachers and doctors of poor counties to practice in the key middle schools and Class III Grade A hospitals in Beijing to continuously improve their professional skills and practical ability, actively assisted Tianzhen County of Shanxi Province to organize more than ten agricultural technicians to carry out field research and receive trainings in developed regions for twice to learn vegetable planting technology and agricultural industrialization management knowledge and experience and provide strong support for the agricultural industrialization; actively carried out intellectual poverty reduction and invited agricultural experts to give technical guidance on the planting of cash crops like vegetables in the poor counties.
【Employment support and skills training】Employment support and skills training are the functional advantages of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. In order to do a good job of employment support and skills trainings, the ministry coordinated Anhui Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security to help Huoshan County and Jinzhai County establish the returned migrant worker innovation park, tried setting up University Graduate Venture Park based on the innovation park, provided more than 100 working posts and recruited 20 college students for “three supports and one assistance”. Meanwhile, we fully tapped the employment potential and actively guided and encouraged self-employment of laid-off workers. In 2012, 20 entities were set up to provide employment opportunities for 500 people. In 2012, Jinzhai County increased 3600 working posts and provided employment for 1860 laid-off workers, transferred more than 8000 rural labors, organized re-employment trainings for 600 people, venture trainings for 180 people, senior technical trainings for 100 people and new technician trainings for 20 people, and the registered urban unemployment rate was controlled below 4%. One full-time staff member was added to the labor and social security office of each town and one labor and social security assistance was arranged for each village, forming the three-level labor and social security service network, covering the counties, towns and villages. In 2012, more than 4 million yuan of petty loans was issued to the business entities, greatly supporting the work of entrepreneurship driving employment.
【New rural pension insurance】In 2012, the pilot projects of new rural endowment insurance were further implemented and the coverage was further expanded. All the eligible rural seniors of 60 years old in the 3 counties could get pensions of no less than 55 yuan per month, which helped the impoverished seniors address some actual difficulties. In the three poor counties, the pilot project was called by the local cadres and masses as “the largest pro-poor project” and widely welcomed by the masses. In 2012, the insurance participation rate in Huoshan County reached 90%, basic pensions were issued to nearly 50,000 people per month and the pension issuance rate reached 100%. In 2012, the central government subsidies and provincial matching funds for the new rural endowment insurance were allocated in full. Taking the pilot new rural endowment insurance as the “commander” project, Jinzhai County seriously implemented the project and made steady progress in project construction. The insured farmers of the county had high enthusiasm to participate in the rural endowment insurance system and over 95% of the rural residents were insured. Nearly 80,000 elderly people above 60 received the basic pension. In 2012, in Tianzhen County of Shanxi Province, 102,314 people were covered by the system, actually 85894 people were insured, and the insurance participation rate reached 93.95%. A total of 2.2936 million yuan of insurance premium was collected and the personal account balance was 12.9954 million yuan. As of the end of 2012, basic pension was issued to more than 24,000 farmers above 60 through financial institutions.
【Construction of urban and rural social security systems】 The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security actively conducted wider collection of “5-in-1 Insurance” and established the social insurance system covering both urban and rural areas. Focusing on private enterprises and individual units, Huoshan County further expanded the coverage of endowment insurance, unemployment insurance, medical insurance, employment injury insurance and maternity insurance and, according to the principle of "systematization, multi-level, wide coverage and moderate level", further improved the urban and rural social security systems. A total of nearly 20,000 people participated in the endowment insurance and 20 million yuan of pension was issued to 4300 retired people; 17,000 people participated in the unemployment insurance and more than 12 million yuan was issued to 3,400 people; 2800 people participated in the medical insurance and more than 11 million yuan of basic medical insurance proceeds was issued; 2700 people participated in the employment injury insurance and more than 10 million yuan of insurance proceeds was issued; and 17,000 people participated in the maternity insurance and more than 1.8 million yuan of insurance proceeds was issued. In Jinzhai County, the number of participants of the basic endowment insurance, unemployment insurance, medical insurance, employment injury insurance and maternity insurance respectively reached 1,000, 20,000, 24,000, 16,000 and 15,800. The wider collection of “5-in-1 Insurance” advanced solidly with expanded coverage, effectively addressing the practical difficulties of the insured.
【Poverty alleviation by science and technology】In 2012, experts and scholars were invited to give over 20 lectures and consulting in the 3 poor counties, playing a positive role in promoting the change of ideas and broadening the horizons of local cadres and the masses. For example, we assisted Huoshan County of Anhui Province develop the independent technology innovation program. The county government allocates 5 million yuan per year as special funds for technology innovation to support the technology enterprises engaged in high-tech product R&D, production and service and reward the enterprises and excellent technology talents engaged in independent technology innovation. The government also issued more than 2 million yuan of special funds for the research of applied technology and the development of technological projects. We actively applied for the cultivation of high-tech enterprises and high-tech products to accelerate the pace of intellectual property and patent work, organized the productivity promotion center to strengthen the construction of technological service platforms, created a professional team of science and technology correspondents to steadily boost the development of agricultural technology; actively established a platform for the communications between enterprises and universities and research institutes to promote their cooperation, successively signed cooperation agreements or letters of intention with Wanxi College, Anhui University of Engineering and Nanjing University and invited experts and professors to visit Huoshan County for many times, reaching agreements on the cooperation in a number of projects, and helped Huoshan County apply for the construction of provincial high-tech development zone and national high-tech industrial base.
【Investment inviting and poverty alleviation by project construction】The sending cadres of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security successively went to Xiamen, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Shenzhen and Dongguan for field research and contacted a number of entrepreneurs and investors of Beijing, Jiangsu, Fujian and Guangdong. In 2012, Fuzhou Hualing Company and Xiamen Zhongjing Company already invested for the production in Huoshan County and other businesses with the desire to invest are also actively negotiating with the county for cooperation. As for project application, based on its functions of human resources and social security, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security contacted many parties concerned and actively applied for financial funds to the relevant ministries, commissions and government departments. In addition, we assisted Jinzhai County to strive for financial aid for the relocation of the hospitals of traditional Chinese medicines from the state and got financial assistance of 12 million yuan, assisted the enterprises in Jinzhai County Development Zone to apply for technical improvement funds of 1.03 million yuan for the department of industry and credit, and actively assisted Tianzhen County to apply for pilot project of establishing a platform for grassroots services of employment and social security. The previous year’s policy was still implemented and the project got construction fund of 6.6 million yuan from the state. We continued to communicate with relevant departments of the National Development and Reform Commission and helped Jinzhai County apply for the projects of building the county and town-level employment and social security service centers, of which the county employment and social security service center will be a five-storied building with a built-up area of 4800 square meters. In addition, we actively promoted the job skills training of students from needy families in the poor counties, and selected poor students to receive free or semi-free education in the senior technicians’ school designated by the ministry, aiming to improve the quality of poor students through multiple channels and increase their employment opportunities.
(Li Chunhui, Shen Hong, Piao Jiufu, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security)
Poverty Alleviation of Ministry of Land and Resources
【Poverty alleviation in contiguous impoverished areas with particular difficulties】As the liaison unit of Wumeng Mountain Area, according to the requirements of the central government for the poverty alleviation and development in the new stage, the Ministry of Land and Resources conscientiously fulfilled the duties of “investigation and research, contact and communication, supervision and guidance”, made overall deployments, clarified the working idea, improved the contact mechanism, carried out in-depth research, introduced various supportive measures and integrated all forces to promote the implementation of the "Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation Planning of Wumeng Mountain Area (2011-2020)". In February, the Ministry of Land and Resources and LGOP held in Zhaotong of Yunnan Province the kick-off meeting of the regional development and poverty alleviation of Wumeng Mountain Area.
Improved the mechanisms and strengthened organization and leadership. The Ministry of Land and Resources adjusted the Leading Group on Poverty Alleviation and Development and increased eight departments and units directly under the ministry as the member units, and the member units increased to 21, covering the main business divisions and affiliated units. Meanwhile, we selected one department leader respectively from the provincial department of land and resources of Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan to serve the ministry poverty alleviation office and assist in the implementation of the poverty alleviation planning of the contiguous poor areas in the three provinces. The "Circular of the General Office of the Ministry of Land and Resources on the Issuance of the ‘Arrangements of the Ministry of Land and Resources Concerning the Stage Work of Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation in Wumeng Mountain Area’" (Guo Tu Zi Ting Han [2012] No.398) was issued to clarify the guidelines, responsibilities and tasks, main working arrangements and safeguard measures of the liaison with Wumeng Mountain Area. The tasks assigned to the Ministry of Land and Resources covered by the regional planning of Wumeng Mountain Area was decomposed to the relevant divisions, bureaus and affiliated units of the Ministry of Land and Resources, and the implementation of the anti-poverty work was included into the coverage of the performance appraisal.
Carried out field research to understand the actual situation and needs. We conducted field research in Wumeng Mountain Area for five times, visited the poor counties, towns and villages, interviewed the local farmers, solicited opinions from all sides to understand the actual situation and needs of all parties concerned and organized supervision on the preparation of provincial and county-level implementation plans. Before the Spring Festival, three research groups were set up with members from eight divisions and bureaus and three affiliated units of the Ministry of Land and Resources, carried out field research in seven counties and districts of three provinces, namely Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan, and sent condolences to the old party members and poor households. At the end of February, after the kick-off meeting of the poverty reduction in Wumeng Mountain Area, Minister Xu Shaoshi headed a research group to carried out field survey in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi to understand the needs of Wumeng Mountain Area, Wuling Mountain Area and Yunnan- Guizhou –Guangxi Rocky Desertification Area for the management work of the Ministry of Land and Resources. In March, in the investigation among one hundred people themed “deepening the reform and innovation to accelerate system supply” organized by the Ministry of Land and Resources and the relevant provinces, poverty alleviation in Wumeng Mountain Area was as an important content. At the end of April, the Poverty Alleviation Office of the Ministry of Land and Resources organized a research group to hold a forum respectively in Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan to listen to the lectures of relevant principals of the provincial government and relevant departments and understand the progress in the provincial and county planning formulation and the relevant suggestions on the liaison work of the Ministry of Land and Resources as well. In May, the fourth inspection team of the State Council headed by Zhang Shaonong, Vice Minister and Member of the Leading Party Group of the Ministry of Land and Resources as well as Head of the Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation and Development of the ministry, carried out a field inspection on the implementation of the pro-poor policies in Guizhou to further understand the actual situation, problems and urgent needs of the anti-poverty work in Guizhou Province.
The Ministry of Land and Resources also sent a letter respectively to the relevant departments of the State Council, the designated poverty alleviation departments and units of Wumeng Mountain Area, the cities assigned the task of East-West pairing-off poverty alleviation as well as Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan Province to make clear the pro-poor measures and key projects implemented in Wumeng Mountain Area since the implementation of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan", the investment of anti-poverty funds and the working arrangements for the next step, laying a foundation for the liaison work of the Ministry of Land and Resources.
Held the first meeting of the inter-ministerial conference on the regional development and poverty alleviation in Wumeng Mountain Area. On September 13, the first meeting of the inter-ministerial conference on the regional development and poverty alleviation in Wumeng Mountain Area was convened in Beijing. Minister Xu Shaoshi was the meeting convener and Deputy Minister Zhao Shaonong was the deputy convener. A total of 51 principals of the relevant ministries and commissions of the State Council, the relevant cities for East-West pairing-off poverty alleviation and the designated poverty alleviation units were present at the event, almost covering all the units and departments involved in the poverty alleviation of Wumeng Mountain Area. The meeting approved the "Inter-ministerial Joint Conference System for the Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation in Wumeng Mountain Area" and clarified the division of labor of the member units and the work rules of the joint meeting. After the conference, we coordinated the three provinces to make clear what kind of support they need from the relevant ministries, commissions and units of the State Council according to the regional planning of Wumeng Mountain Area, and asked 35 departments and units of the State Council to give feedback on the 53 projects that need to be supported put forward by the three provinces.
In 2012, the Ministry of Land and Resources issued 402 million yuan of funds to support the geological disaster prevention and control in Wumeng Mountain Area, of which 86 million yuan was issued for Luzhou City, Leshan City, Yibin City and Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province; 179 million yuan was issued to Zunyi and Bijie City of Guizhou Province, and 137 million yuan was issued to support Kunming, Qujing, Zhaotong and Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province. After the earthquake occurred in Yiliang of Yunnan Province, the Ministry of Land and Resources promptly sent a working group to guide the disaster emergency disposal in the affected areas, organized relevant technicians to carry out emergency investigation and disposal work and transported a large number of emergency equipment to the affected areas. The central government’s special fund for serious geological disaster prevention and control was a strong support for Yunnan Province, especially after landslide in Yiliang on October 4, the Ministry of Land and Resources immediately coordinated the provision of relief funds of 150 million yuan from the Ministry of Finance, of which no less than 100 million yuan was issued to the earthquake-stricken areas. After arranging 3 million yuan of investigation funds for the geological disaster in Wumeng Mountain Area, the Ministry of Land and Resources increased 2 million yuan of relief funds for the affected areas in Yiliang. Meanwhile, we guided Yunnan Province to improve the "Geological Disaster Prevention and Control System Building Plan of Yunnan Province" and suggested that the State Development and Reform Commission should accelerate the construction of the geological disaster prevention and control system in Yunnan Province.
【Pro-poor policies】Issued the "Several Opinions of the Ministry of Land and Resources on Supporting the Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation in Contiguous Poor Areas with Particular Difficulties" (Guo Tu Zi Fa [2012] No. 122), including 18 policy measures on land management, mine administration and management as well as geological disaster prevention and control; Put forward preferential policies for contiguous poor areas mainly on land management, geological exploration and the development of mineral resources, geological disaster prevention and control and geological environmental protection, personnel training and the exchange of cadres, etc., involving almost all the main functions of the Ministry of Land and Resources, covering 11 contiguous poor areas in Liupan Mountain Area, Tibet, the Tibetan areas in Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai, 15 provinces, 5 autonomous prefectures and one municipality covered by Southern Xinjiang and 680 counties of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
Issued the "Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Land and Resources on the Division of Labor for the Implementation of the Important Policy Measures of the ‘Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)’" (Guo Tu Zi Ting Han [2012] No. 605), determined that the Planning Department, Farmland Department and the Department of Geological Environment are respectively responsible for the three jobs, organized supervision and inspection on the implementation and included it into the coverage of the performance appraisal.
Satisfied the demand of poor areas for land use. We actively guided the scientific preparation of an overall planning for land use in poor areas, combined poverty alleviation and development with the county's economic development and new rural construction, guaranteed the demand of anti-poverty projects for land use and tried to best to satisfy the house building need of ex-situ anti-poverty relocation in impoverished regions. In the key counties for national poverty alleviation and development in Gansu, Qinghai, Jilin, Anhui, Sichuan, Ningxia, Yunnan and Guizhou, we increased construction site of more than 400,000 mu; and supported poor areas with certain conditions to launch pilot projects of linkage of increase and decrease in urban and rural construction land area. To actively promote the implementation of poverty-relief relocation projects, we included 19 related cities of the relevant provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) into the pilot program and raised funds for poverty alleviation projects through highlighting land efficiency. Sichuan Provincial Department of Land and Resources approved 57 such projects, involving land area of 37,900 mu, improved the land use approval system and speeded up the approval process to guarantee the implementation of key projects for regional development such as traffic, energy and water conservancy projects and guarantee the land supply for poverty alleviation and development. Since 2011, Qinghai Province has approved 128 land use projects of 55,600 mu of the key counties for poverty alleviation and development. In 2012, Yunnan Province approved 298 land use projects of 76,900 mu of the key counties for poverty alleviation and development.
Promoted poverty alleviation and development by land remediation. The "National Land Remediation Plan (2011-2015)" approved by the State Council determined the construction of 500 high-standard basic farmland demonstration counties, involving 100 key counties for national poverty alleviation and development. The key areas for agricultural land remediation determined by the plan include 28 key counties for national poverty alleviation and development, and the key areas for land reclamation include seven key counties for national poverty alleviation and development. Meanwhile, in the allocation of major land remediation projects and the construction projects of demonstration provinces for land remediation, we gave priority to impoverished regions. In cooperation with the Ministry of Finance, through discussing with the relevant provinces, we supported ten provincial governments to launch land remediation demonstration province building, involving a land area of 26.33 million mu. 1.75 million mu of farmland area is expected to be increased and the total investment is 52 billion yuan. The project implementation involved 20 key counties for national poverty alleviation and development. In addition, we arranged 290 land remediation projects in the key counties of Shanxi, Guangxi, Yunnan, Gansu and Ningxia with a construction scale of 3.0222 million mu with an investment of 6.189 billion yuan.
Strengthened the comprehensive prevention and control of geological disasters in poor areas. The "‘12th Five-Year Plan’ for National Geological Disaster Prevention and Control" approved by the State Council included the 11 contiguous poor areas of Liupan Mountain Area, Tibet, the Tibetan areas of Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai and the three prefectures in Southern Xinjiang into the 13 key areas for prevention of unexpected geological disasters, and the Ministry of Land and Resources increased financial support for the prevention and control of geological disasters in impoverished areas. In 2012, we issued a total of 2.496 billion yuan of financial support for the program, of which 1.764 billion yuan was for the prevention and control of geological disasters and 732 million yuan was for the geological environmental protection and governance in mines. 94 million yuan of the funds was allocated to Liupan Mountain Area, 312 million yuan to Qinba Mountain Area, 510 million yuan to Wuling Mountain Area, 404 million yuan to Wumeng Mountain Area, 259 million yuan to Yunnan – Guizhou –Guangxi Rocky Desertification Area, 164 million yuan to border mountain areas in Western Yunnan, 34 million yuan to the southern foot of Daxing’anling, 47 million yuan to Yanshan-Taihang Mountain Area, 128 million yuan to Lvliang Mountain Area, 126 million yuan to Dabie Mountain Area, 161 million yuan to Luoxiao Mountain Area, 171 million yuan to Tibet, 37 million yuan to the Tibetan areas of Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Qinghai, and one million yuan to the three prefectures in Southern Xinjiang. In 2012, the Ministry of Land and Resources put in 30 million yuan for drought resisting well digging in Guyuan City of Ningxia and more than 50 wells were dug to solve the drinking water safety problem of 130,000 rural residents of local area.
Introduced relevant policies on mineral resources management. Making use of the resources advantage, we carried out the “blood-making” poverty alleviation, speeded up the geological survey and mineral resources development in poor areas, increased project and financial support and accelerated the transformation of resources advantages to economic advantages. In mining rights setting and transfer, we gave priority to impoverished regions. Guizhou, Yunnan, Jilin, Qinghai and Xinjiang launched 5417 mining rights projects in the key counties for poverty alleviation and development, and Gansu Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region publicly transferred the mining rights of 53 projects in 17 key counties for national poverty alleviation and development to promote the transformation of local resources advantages towards economic advantages. Shanxi, Henan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Xinjiang were allowed to sell six mineral rights, involving coal mining and iron ore mining. Meanwhile, we supported impoverished regions to vigorously promote the conservation and comprehensive utilization of mineral resources, issued 119 million yuan of funds for the conservation and comprehensive utilization of mineral resources of 19 projects in Qinba Mountain Area and Wumeng Mountain Area of Sichuan Province, 12 million yuan of special funds for three enterprises in Yunnan –Guangxi –Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area, including Guangxi Debao County Coppermine, etc., and 8.65 million yuan of special funds for two projects in the three prefectures of Southern Xinjiang.
Accelerated the implementation of mineral resources development and utilization projects. Actively established the new mechanism for mining enterprises to share the mineral resources with the masses in surrounding areas for development and utilization, and accelerated the implementation of pilot projects of harmonious mining areas so that the local masses could share the benefits of mineral resources development. Through attracting local villagers to become shareholders for dividends and contribute with labor services, a large number of mining enterprises in Malipo of Yunnan Province in the Yunnan – Guangxi –Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area, including Zijin Tungsten Industry Co., Ltd donated to subsidize poor students, strengthened rural infrastructure construction and organized the farmers to engage in featured breeding and planting industry to help local residents shake off poverty and become rich, significantly improving the appearance of local area.
Accelerated the implementation of geological exploration projects. Organized basic geological survey, investigation and evaluation of mineral resources, geological hazard survey and hydrogeological environment survey in the impoverished counties of the contiguous poor areas and the counties enjoying preferential policy, discovered a number of mine sites (mineralization sites), increased our resources and made clear the hydrogeological conditions of local areas, providing a geological basis for addressing the water shortage of the masses; Meanwhile, we gave priority to poor areas in the implementation of geological prospecting projects. China Geological Survey arranged 266 geological prospecting projects in the key counties for national poverty alleviation and development of Gansu, Sichuan, Ningxia, Guangxi, Qinghai and Xinjiang with an investment of 1.87 billion yuan. The Land and Resources Department of Xinjiang vigorously promoted commercial exploration in 27 key counties for national poverty alleviation and development and set up 1731 projects funded by the public. The Central Geological Exploration Fund supported five projects in poor areas with a total investment of 62.84 million yuan. Sheke coal mine exploration project in Jingle County of Shanxi Province made clear the coal resources of more than 100 million tons. The investigation into the uranium ore resources in the western part of Xiangshan Ore Field in Le’an County of Jiangxi Province covered by Luoxiao Mountain Area is expected to be a super large-scale survey; and the controlled bauxite resources in Dongshan and Mazongling of Zheng’an County in Guizhou Province covered by Wuling Mountain Area reach 50 million tons.
【Investment of poverty relief funds】Mainly guaranteed the land supply for poverty alleviation and development projects, giving priority to housing projects for ex-situ anti-poverty relocation in impoverished regions. Actually 34.135 billion yuan was invested in the transformation of middle and low-yield farmland and the construction of high-standard basic farmland, covering 739 counties; 18.65 billion yuan was put in geological disaster prevention and control as well as the restoration of geological environments of the mines, covering 831 counties; and 21.9 billion yuan was issued to support the basic geological surveys, and the prospective study and assessment of mineral resources, covering 372 counties.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】The Ministry of Land and Resources was designated to provide counterpart support for 8 key counties for national poverty alleviation and development in Ganzhou City of Jiangxi Province as well as Xintian County of Hunan Province. Taking Jingxi County of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (Home village of Wei Shouzeng, Director of National Model Office of Land and Resources) as a liaison point for anti-poverty work of the Ministry of Land and Resources, we carried out poverty-relief work here according to the standards for key counties, gave priority to the county in land development and utilization, land use plan and the requisition-compensation balance of arable land, and made a breakthrough in the land management system innovation, construction land protection, linkage of increase and decrease in urban and rural construction area and the comprehensive improvement of rural land. We sent 86 cadres to carried out field survey in the poor counties with a direct investment of 199.6568 million yuan, helped the key counties introduce 47 projects and 6.04 million yuan of aid funds, and held 15 trainings for 847 farmers and cadres at all levels.
Held a special meeting to improve the relevant policy measures. On January 14, the Ministry of Land and Resources held in Ruijin City of Jiangxi Province the work conference on poverty alleviation and development and the 25th anniversary symposium on the fixed-point poverty alleviation in Southern Jiangxi and clarified the direction for poverty alleviation in the new stage; introduced the "Some Opinions of the General Office of the Ministry of Land and Resources on Supporting the Economic Development of Ganzhou in 2012" (Guo Tu Zi Ting Han [2012] No. 577), proposed 17 specific measures in four aspects and increased support for Guanzhou City in the allocation of major projects, such as the structure adjustment, mode transformation and protection of people’s livelihood. Based on the actual situation of Xintian County, Hunan Province, giving play to the advantages of land departments, the Ministry of Land and Resources raised a total of 44.7813 million yuan of poverty-relief funds in 2012, and implemented the projects of comprehensive land management, perspective survey of mineral resources, demonstration projects of karst groundwater exploration and exploitation, etc.
Conducted comprehensive land management in rural areas to promote regional economic development. In the comprehensive land management in rural areas, the Ministry of Land and Resources gave priority to Ganzhou City, supported Ningdu County, Ganxian County, Dayu County and Ruijin City to carry out rural land management projects of 37,800 mu with an investment budget of 93.35 million yuan. After the Ministry of Land and Resources identified Xintian County of Hunan Province as one of the first batch of demonstration counties for high-standard basic farmland building, Hunan Provincial Department of Land and Resources approved the allocation of 31.5233 million yuan of land reclamation funds for the arable land of 17,800 mu.
New results were achieved in the exploration of mineral resources. Invested 25 million yuan of project funds for the mineral resources research and appraisal in Ganzhou city, and completed two national geological survey projects, three Central Geological Exploration Fund projects and three Jiangxi Geological Exploration Fund projects. The first workstation for academician of earth sciences of Ganzhou City was established in Gannan Geological Survey Village. The 3000-meter scientific drilling project in Nanling and the 2000-meter abnormal verification drilling project in Pangu Mountain Demonstration Zone of Yudu – Ganxian Area concentrated with mines in Nanling were successively launched, providing a strong technical support for discovering more deep resources and making a new breakthrough in geological prospecting in Ganzhou City. China Geological Survey Bureau launched the mineral resources prospective survey project in Xintian County of Hunan Province, discovered five ore fields and three potential ore fields, especially in the survey of Zhishiping Mining Area of 30 square kilometers in Xintian County, initially found a large-scale of manganese ore reserves, a medium-scale iron ore reserves and a small-scale of coal resources of more than 20 million tons worth more than 2.5 billion yuan. In the barite orefield of Longzhu mining area in Xinjiang County, nearly 2 million tons of potential resources of barite ore were discovered. In addition, we arranged survey funds of 1.5 million yuan for Xintian County, completed the soil survey and crop survey work in the key area for research and continued to implement the demonstration project of karst water exploration and exploitation in the key areas of Xintian County with project funds of 2 million yuan in 2012, addressing the serious water shortage of 4860 residents in the project villages and surrounding areas.
【Poverty alleviation research】Carried out the "Research for National Land Resource Management Policy to Support the Development of Impoverished Areas in the Country" and the "Research for National Land Resource Management Policy to Support the Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation in Wumeng Mountain Area", actively explore anti-poverty work law for the contiguous poor area and carried out theoretical research. Combining the regional development and poverty alleviation in contiguous poor areas with the reform and innovation of national land resources management, through investigation and research, we strove to explore innovations in poverty alleviation idea, methods and modes to provide theoretical support for the formulation of relevant policies to support the regional development and poverty reduction in Wumeng Mountain Area and other contiguous poor areas.
【Poverty alleviation by sending cadres】Eight cadres were successively sent to work in the poor areas, including five to Wumeng Mountain Area, one to Ganzhou city of Jiangxi Province, one to Xintian County of Hunan Province and one to Jingxi County of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. In the poor counties and Wumeng Mountain Area, we organized the grassroots learning and practice activity for organ cadres to carry out field survey in the land and resources offices, geological teams and mining areas, eat, live, work and study with the local residents, deliver policies and services to local areas and improve their work, sent a total of 41 organ cadres below the level of division to carry out one-month practice activity, and dispatched six newly recruited civil servants of relevant organizations of the Ministry of Land and Resources who had no grassroots work experience to practice in the grassroots units of Wumeng Mountain Area for one year.
(Guan Leyuan, Ministry of Land and Resources)
Poverty Alleviation of Ministry of Environmental Protection
【Support for major projects】 Actively guided and supported the environmental impact assessment work in the key counties for national poverty alleviation and development and impoverished areas and speeded up the approval process of the construction projects complying with the relevant industrial policies and relevant planning and meeting the requirements of environmental impact assessment to promote the social and economic development of impoverished regions. In 2012, the Ministry of Environmental Protection approved a number of major projects in the key counties for national poverty alleviation and development, including Wutaishan / Dingxiang Airport rebuilding for military and civilian use, the construction of Shangrao Sanqingshan Airport in Jiangxi and the construction of Ninglang Luguhu Civil Airport in Yunnan, and put forward specific requirements for ecological and environmental protection in the project construction, aiming to achieve a win-win situation between economic development and environmental protection.
【Comprehensive improvement of the rural environment】The Ministry of Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued the “Notice on the Issuance of the ‘12th Five-Year Plan for National Rural Environment Management’” (Huan Fa [2012] No. 75), included 14 contiguous poor areas into the coverage of key areas for national comprehensive improvement of rural environment, deepened the policy of “promoting management by rewards”, and strengthened the protection of drinking water sources in rural areas, rural sewage and garbage disposal, livestock breeding pollution prevention, historical rural mining pollution control, agricultural nonpoint source pollution control and rural ecological demonstration, giving priority to the "problem villages" with prominent environmental problems. In 2012, a total of 23 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities, separately listed cities) were covered by the demonstration of contiguous management, and the central government arranged special financial funds of 5.5 billion yuan to accelerate the pace of rural environmental governance.
The State Council approved the " ‘12th Five-Year Plan’ for National Rural Drinking Water Safety Project" with the document of Guo Han [2012] No. 52, clarified that we must solve the drinking water safety problem of 298 million rural residents (including residents of state-owned farms and forestry centers) and 114,000 rural schools during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period and enhanced the proportion of rural centralized water supply to 80% of so, significantly improving the quality of water supply and the management level of water supply projects.
【Ecological construction and protection】 Actively promoted the construction of national nature reserves in poor areas. In 2012, the central government allocated 180 million yuan of special funds to support the standardized construction of 100 national nature reserves, involving 12 contiguous poor areas. In cooperation with the Ministry of Finance, through the central government transfer payments for national key ecological function areas the Ministry of Environmental Protection supported the ecological protection in impoverished regions, organized the assessment of ecological environment of relevant counties, and urged the county government of poor areas to further increase support for the protection. Combined with the implementation of the “Strategy and Action Plan for China’s Biodiversity Conservation (2011-2030)”, we launched pilot projects of biodiversity conservation and the construction of poverty reduction demonstration zones in five regions of the bio-diversity conservation priority areas that are also contiguous poor areas, namely Xinbaerhu Right Banner of Hulunbeier City of Inner Mongolia, Lichuan City of Hubei Province, Sandu County of Guizhou Province, Yulong County of Yunnan Province and Taibai County of Shaanxi Province, and arranged 2.4 million yuan of special funds for the program. Through alternative livelihoods, the program aims to improve the living standards of farmers, reduce damage to biodiversity and explore a win-win situation between biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation.
【Environmental protection capacity building】Supported the capacity building of poor areas for environmental protection to enhance the level of environment supervision. With financial support from the central government, we established the environmental emergency monitoring capacity-building projects in the key areas for a reduction in emissions of pollutants, and provided one environmental emergency monitoring vehicle worth 5 million yuan respectively for Anyang City of Henan Province and Luzhou City of Sichuan Province. Meanwhile, to strengthen the capacity building of poor areas for environmental protection publicity, we arranged the central subsidy funds according to the central government’s requirements for the proportion of investment for the eastern, central and western regions in the total project investment (20%, 50% and 80% respectively), issued 1.83 million yuan for each western province, mainly to support the publicity capacity building. In the construction of environmental monitoring stations, we gave priority to poor counties and allocated the central subsidy funds according to the principle of “filling up vacancies”.
【Environmental protection personnel training】In order to further improve the overall quality and operational capacity of the environmental protection talents in the poor western areas and enhance the awareness of social responsibility of enterprises in the western regions, in 2012, the Ministry of Environmental Protection held trainings of corporate social responsibility (CSR) for the supervision enterprises founded in the recent two years, the enterprises covered by regional restricted approval and the enterprises covered by the key pollution control program in ten provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities), namely Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and Xinjiang; held the National Environmental Emergency Management Personnel Training for Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps; and held business trainings on environmental planning, regulation, technology, monitoring, surveillance, environmental assessment and emission reduction. In addition, we held the second training course for environmental protection technology to support Xinjiang and Tibet and the second training course for the grassroots minority cadres for environmental protection in Xinjiang, held the second party and government leader training course on environmental protection jointly with the relevant organizations and departments of Xinjiang, improving the awareness of environmental protection of the relevant cadres.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】In 2012 , according to the requirements of the State Council for poverty alleviation and development work, combined with the actual situations of Weichang and Longhua County in Hebei Province, the Ministry of Environmental Protection further increased efforts on poverty reduction and tried to solve the prominent environmental problems as soon as possible to promote the sustainable economic and social development of the two counties. To support the construction of nature reserves, the central government allocated financial funds of 4.35 million yuan, continued to support the two national nature reserves in Maojingba of Longhua County and the upper reaches of Luan River in Weichang County of Hebei Province, included Saihanba Natural Nature Reserve of Weichang County into the coverage of special fund support and enhanced the level of management and protection; Included Longhua County of Hebei Province into the demonstration zone for contiguous rural environmental improvement and arranged 1.1 million yuan of central rural environmental protection funds to support the construction of sewage, garbage and other pollution control facilities. In the nonprofit research of environmental protection, we established the project of "Research on Organic Food Development and Biodiversity Protection in Bashang Nature Reserve" and allocated 840,000 yuan to support the research of organic food development and biodiversity protection in nature reserves; organized the study of ecological compensation program for Luan River Basin of Weichang County and allocated central financial funds of 100,000 yuan for this program; strengthened environmental publicity and education and allocated special funds of 100,000 yuan for environmental protection publicity in Weichang County and Longhua County; launched the environmental protection publicity project in the key national ecological function zones of Weichang County and donated popular science books worth 65,000 yuan to Weichang No.1 Primary School; donated more than 1000 books worth 15,000 yuan to middle school students in the activity of supporting middle school students by environmental protection publicity; actively carried out the activity to create green schools, established ten showcases of environmental science knowledge in the green schools at all levels of the two counties, issued 200 sets of flipcharts on environmental protection advocacy and donated 200 books on environmental protection.
（Jia Lei, Ministry of Environmental Protection）
Poverty Alleviation of Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development
Poverty Alleviation of Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development
【Overview】In 2012, the Ministry of Construction of Housing and Urban-Rural Development further implemented the "Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)", actively coordinated the relevant departments to increase efforts on the renovation of dilapidated houses in poor rural areas, supported the poorest rural households living in the most dangerous houses to solve the basic safe housing problem, continued to perform its duties as the liaison unit of Dabie Mountain Area and supported the steady development of housing and urban-rural construction in Dabie Mountain Area.
【Renovation of rural dilapidated houses】In 2012, the central government arranged grant funds of 44.572 billion yuan to support the renovation of dilapidated houses of 5.6 million impoverished rural households, including the innovation of dilapidated houses for 130,000 poor households in border areas and the building energy efficiency demonstration of 410,800 poverty-stricken households. Almost all rural areas were covered by the central government’s support and the subsidy standard was further enhanced to 7500 yuan. The subsidy for the poor households living in the frontline of the border areas and the building energy efficiency demonstration households was also enhanced to 2500 yuan.
In the renovation of rural dilapidated houses, we strictly implemented the relevant policy to help the poorest living in the most dangerous houses solve the most basic safe housing problem, and the subsidy targets were mainly the scattered households covered by the five-guarantee system, the objects of the minimum living security system, the families of poor disabled people and other poverty-stricken households living in dilapidated houses in rural areas. Local governments mainly supported the renovation of dilapidated houses in border areas, poor regions, minority areas and old revolutionary areas, giving priority to contiguous poor areas with particular difficulties. In 2012, the renovation of dilapidated houses was implemented for 2.17 million households in 14 contiguous poor areas and the central government provided subsidy funds of 17.85 billion yuan for the program.
【Poverty alleviation in contiguous impoverished areas with particular difficulties】1 . Organized field research. In February and March 2012, the Department of Village and Town Construction of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development carried out the preliminary investigation in 11 counties of Dabie Mountains Area. In April and May 2012, 18 departments of the organs affiliated to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development carried out field survey in 36 counties, 119 towns and 237 administrative villages, visited 449 poor households, and submitted 165 research reports and special reports. In May, the research reports of 500,000 words of 36 counties were summarized. Meanwhile, we completed the "Research Report on Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation in Dabie Mountain Area" of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and submitted it to the LGOP, the National Development and Reform Commission, other member units of the State Council Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development and the relevant departments of the three provinces covered by the contiguous poor areas. In cooperation with the Committee for Handling Proposals of CPPCC, we carried out field research in Dabie Mountain area and helped to draft a report to be submitted to the State Council. 2 Expanded horizontal linkages. Determined the liaison officers for 36 counties of the three provinces, established 19 department-level liaison teams for the ministries and commissions of the central government and held a joint meeting. In May and June, we respectively visited the Ministry of Transportation, Ministry of Water Resources, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Science and Technology, State Forestry Administration and China National Tourism Administration, reported to them the results of our field research and the needs of the poor areas, tried to understand the supportive policies and form a joint force to promote the development of Dabie Mountain Area. 3. Took active measures to support the development of Dabie Mountain Area. First, issued the "Measures to Support the Housing and Urban-rural Development of Dabie Mountain Area" of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-rural Development, and clarified that during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, we must provide guidance and support for security housing construction, town and village building, infrastructure construction in counties and towns, scenic spots construction, landscaping, building energy efficiency and technology, human resources support and poverty reduction by construction industry. Second, determined the renovation of rural dilapidated houses for 182,000 households in the contiguous poor areas in 2012, 2.35 times that of 2011, through giving priority to the three provinces in assigning tasks and coordinating the three provinces to give priority to the poor counties in the contiguous impoverished areas. Third, through joint study with the Ministry of Finance and the National Development and Reform Commission, we included Jiuzihe Town of Luotian County in Hubei Province in the candidate list for pilot project of green low-carbon town in 2012. Fourth, included 15 towns of the contiguous poor areas into the name list of key towns for sewage treatment facility building funded by central financial funds, substituted subsidies with rewards and provided subsidies. Fifth, began to select model villages for village and town building; based on the characteristics of local architectures and the folk art, we launched and promoted the pilot projects of safe earth buildings characterized by energy conservation and environmental protection; and supported HK commonweal organization Wuzhiqiao to donate for small bridge building in remote villages of Dabie Mountain Area. Sixth, organized the Urban Planning Research Office of China Architectural Design Institute to formulate the county system planning of Shouxian County in Anhui Province, three planning for protection of renowned towns and planning for the construction of buildings of two square kilometers. Seventh, assisted China Construction Industry Association to promote the development of construction labors in the key counties for poverty reduction, coordinated China Construction Metal Structure Association to promote the development of steel structure industry in Tuanfeng County, and coordinated the pairing-off poverty alleviation work of China Construction No.7 Engineering Bureau.
(Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development)
Poverty Alleviation of Ministry of Transport
【Overview】 Transportation is an important part of the poverty alleviation and development work and a basic and prior condition for the contiguous poor areas to shake off poverty and become rich. In 2012, the Ministry of Transport profoundly implemented the spirit of the 18th CPC National Congress and the deployments of the central work conference on poverty alleviation and development, took the transportation infrastructure construction in contiguous poor areas as a main task for current and future development of transport industry, increased policy and financial support for contiguous poor areas, organized the formulation of the planning for poverty alleviation by transport in contiguous poor areas, carried out in-depth survey and research as the liaison unit of Liupan Mountain Area, took the lead to hold the kick-off meeting of the poverty reduction in contiguous poor areas and established the mechanism for contacts between the ministries. Meanwhile, we continued to promote the fixed-point poverty alleviation.
【Planning for poverty alleviation by transport】In the first half of 2012, in conjunction with the provinces (autonomous regions) and cities with contiguous poor areas, the Ministry of Transport conducted a large number of field research, formulated the "Outline of the Planning on Poverty Alleviation by Transportation Construction in Contiguous Poor Areas (2011-2020) ", developed the planning for poverty alleviation by transport construction respectively for 11 contiguous poor areas based on local natural conditions, development capacity, environmental carrying capacity and industrial development direction, and clarified the objectives and key tasks for the development of transportation in the contiguous poor areas by 2020.
To break the bottlenecks restricting the transport development in impoverished regions, promote the equality of basic public services and establish in contiguous poor areas a transportation network characterized by "linkage of local and non-local areas, reaching all the villages and towns, regular bus to villages, safety and convenience", under the basic principle of "developing overall planning and highlighting key points for gradual progress and practical effects", the planning on poverty alleviation by transport construction proposed to further intensify the infrastructure construction in contiguous poor areas, vigorously enhance the capacity and level of transportation service, improve the capability for disaster relief and emergency support by transport construction and support the construction of national and provincial arterial highways and rural highroads, the renovation of county and town roads and the construction of county and town bus stations. By 2020, the development of transportation in contiguous poor areas will basically meet the needs of economic and social development and provide a strong transportation guarantee for poor areas to achieve the goal of building a moderately prosperous society together with the whole country.
According to the planning, based on giving priority to the western regions, old revolutionary bases, minority areas, border regions and poverty-stricken areas during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, the Ministry of Transport will continue to give priority to contiguous poor areas in the allocation of expected incremental funding for vehicle purchase tax and continue to enhance the transport construction subsidy standards for contiguous poor areas during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period. In the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, the total amount of vehicle purchase taxes for transport construction in 11 contiguous poor areas and the three regions enjoying preferential policies will exceed 510 billion yuan, accounting for nearly 50% of the total.
On July 10, 2012, Vice Premier of the State Council and Head of the State Council Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development Hui Liangyu gave instructions in the work report of the Ministry of Transport on poverty alleviation: Transportation is an important part of poverty alleviation and development and a basic and precedent condition for poverty reduction in contiguous poor regions. The Ministry of Transport attached great importance to poverty alleviation and development work. To solve the traffic problems restricting the economic and social development in poor areas, we strove to promote the equalization of basic public transportation services, highlighted key points to pursue practical effects and intensified the construction of transportation infrastructure to enhance the capacity and level of transportation service and improve the capability for disaster relief and emergency support by transport construction. With clear objectives and specific feasible measures, the Ministry of Transport is now at the forefront of poverty alleviation and development, making a new contribution to the poverty alleviation and the construction of a moderately prosperous society in poor areas.
【Agreement signing for joint construction by the ministry and relevant provinces】 In July 2012, the Ministry of Transport held in Chengdu of Sichuan a national work conference on poverty alleviation by transport construction in contiguous poor areas, officially issued the "Outline of the Planning on Poverty Alleviation by Transportation Construction in Contiguous Poor Areas (2011-2020) " and made overall deployments on the anti-poverty work by transport construction in the new stage. Minister Li Shenglin attended the meeting and delivered a speech. On behalf of the Ministry of Transport, Deputy Minister Weng Mengyong signed the agreement on poverty alleviation by the ministry and relevant provinces respectively with the contiguous poor areas and the People's Governments of 19 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) concerned, and agreed to take effective measures to implement the poverty alleviation planning and accelerate the transportation infrastructure construction to break the transport bottlenecks hindering the economic and social development of local areas, comprehensively enhance the transportation service level and provide a strong transportation guarantee for the construction of a moderately prosperous society in the contiguous poor areas.
【Implementation of projects of poverty alleviation by transport construction】To strengthen project management and ensure the smooth implementation of poverty reduction by transport construction, in October 2012, the Ministry of Transport issued the "Circular on Strengthening the Plan Management for Rural Highroad Construction in Contiguous Poor Areas" and put forward relevant requirements for the plan management for rural highroad construction in contiguous poor areas. In 2012, the Ministry of Transport issued 33.2 billion yuan of vehicle purchase tax subsidy funds to support the construction of 82 freeway projects of 8532 kilometers in 11 contiguous poor areas, Tibet, the Tibetan areas of four provinces and the three prefectures of Southern Xinjiang, which were clearly designated to enjoy preferential policies; issued 38.7 billion yuan of vehicle purchase tax subsidy funds to support the construction of 302 national and provincial freeway and arterial highway projects of 17662 kilometers; invested 900 million yuan of vehicle purchase tax subsidy funds to support the construction of four port highway projects of 297 kilometers, and issued 18.2 billion yuan to support the construction of rural roads of nearly 50,000 kilometers, directly benefiting 602 poor counties and 9,523 poverty-stricken villages.
【Contacts with Liupan Mountain Area】According to the unified deployment made by the State Council Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development, in 2012, the Ministry of Transport was designated as the liaison unit of Liupan Mountain Area for poverty reduction. To effectively perform its duties as a liaison unit, the Ministry of Transport carried out in-depth investigations and studies and actively promoted key-problem tackling for poverty alleviation in the contiguous poor area.
Established the inter-ministerial liaison mechanism for poverty reduction in Liupan Mountain Area. To strengthen the communication with the relevant ministries and commissions of the State Council, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia, in 2012, the Ministry of Transport took the lead to establish the inter-ministerial liaison team for regional development and poverty alleviation in Liupan Mountain Area, headed by Deputy Minister Weng Mengyong. Chief planner Dai Dongchang served as the deputy head and the relevant principals of 23 departments, divisions and bureaus affiliated to the relevant ministries and commissions of the State Council, including the LGOP and the National Development and Reform Commission, as well as the poverty alleviation offices of the four provinces (autonomous regions) covered by Liupan Mountain Area were the team members. On August 10, Vice Minister Weng Mengyong chaired the first meeting of the liaison team on the poverty reduction in Liupan Mountain Area in Beijing, announced the progress in anti-poverty work and the policy measures to support the poverty reduction in Liupan Mountain Area and discussed the work plan for contacting Liupan Mountain Area. On the meeting, the relevant departments all said they would strengthen communication, coordination and cooperation with each other to jointly promote the poverty reduction work in Liupan Mountain Area. In 2012, the Ministry of Transport sent some cadres to the Department of Transportation of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, established the anti-poverty work liaison group for poverty alleviation in Liupan Mountain Area and took the lead to set up the inter-province coordination mechanism for poverty alleviation and development in Liupan Mountain Area in the form of joint meetings of transportation departments.
Took the lead to hold the kick-off meeting of poverty reduction in Liupan Mountain Area. On August 23, 2012, the State Council Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development held in Dingxi City of Gansu Province the kick-off meeting of regional development and poverty alleviation in Liupan Mountain Area. Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, Vice Premier and Head of the State Council Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development Hui Liangyu attended the meeting and delivered an important speech. The Ministry of Transport, LGOP, the National Development and Reform Commission and Gansu Province jointly organized the event. Minister of Transport Li Shenglin presided over the meeting and Party Secretary Yang Chuantang delivered a speech on the conference. In his speech, Yang Chuantang pointed out that the Ministry of Transport will conscientiously fulfill its duties of contact and communication, investigation and research, supervision and guidance in the poverty alleviation work, and further strengthen its cooperation with local party committees, governments and the relevant ministries and commissions of the State Council to jointly promote the implementation of poverty alleviation planning in the contiguous poor area.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】 In accordance with the instructions from the leadership of the State Council and the arrangements of LGOP, the Ministry of Transport conducted fixed-point poverty alleviation in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan Province, mainly supporting the construction of rural roads and other infrastructures in Xiaojin, Rangtang and Heishui County – three key counties for national poverty alleviation and development. In 2012, to promote the inter-provincial development and the lasting political stability, taking anti-poverty work as a major task to protect and improve people’s livelihoods, in the fixed-point poverty alleviation, the Ministry of Transport made innovations to its work idea, vigorously improved the road network structure of impoverished regions, did practical things for the poor and successfully completed the anti-poverty task.
Made innovations to the fixed-point poverty alleviation mode. The significance of transport on poverty reduction is that road building provides possibility for addressing all other problems. Road construction is a solid foundation for us to promote the development of agricultural industry, increase income of farmers, improve the appearance of villages, popularize education and improve teaching conditions, etc. Therefore, the Ministry of Transport proposed the general idea for poverty reduction by transport construction in Aba Prefecture: Based on transport construction, through cooperation between the ministry and relevant provinces, make a unified arrangement for the use of funds, develop an overall planning and conduct unified coordination to promote poverty alleviation by transport construction and accelerate the development of transportation by poverty reduction. "Poverty alleviation by transport construction" aims to lay a foundation for the three poor counties and surrounding regions to shake off poverty by improving traffic conditions. "Development of transportation by poverty reduction": To provide human and material support for transport technology, universal education and personnel training to address the backward traffic of Aba Prefecture.
Allocated relief funds and implemented anti-poverty projects. From 2011 to 2012, 22 projects of fixed-point poverty alleviation by transport construction were launched with an investment of 540 million yuan. As of the end of 2012, a total of 27 projects were completed with an investment of 350 million yuan, 13 rural roads of 237 kilometers and 12 bridges of 517 linear meters were rebuilt or newly built, and two security projects of 20 kilometers were constructed, of which, nine rural roads of 157.16 km and six bridges of 211.46 linear meters were built and one security project of 6000 meters was implemented in 2012.
Improved the mechanism for fixed-point poverty alleviation. To ensure the orderly implementation of traffic poverty alleviation projects, the second batch of the Working Group on Fixed-point Poverty Alleviation of the Ministry of Transport constantly improved the mechanism for fixed-point poverty alleviation. First, organized the preparation of the "Interim Provisions on the Management of Traffic Poverty Alleviation Projects in Aba Tibet and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture", the "Interim Provisions on Performance Evaluation of the Management of Traffic Poverty Alleviation Projects in Aba Tibet and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture", the "Opinions of Aba Prefecture on Further Strengthening the Management of Traffic Poverty Alleviation Projects" and the "Management Measures of Aba Prefecture on the Use of Traffic Poverty Alleviation Project Funds", and developed clear regulations on the management of anti-poverty project programs, management of project construction, quality control, implementation guarantee and performance evaluation so that the traffic poverty alleviation had rules to follow and proceeded orderly. Second, on the basis of the contact group for traffic poverty alleviation, established the Traffic Poverty Alleviation Office in the Prefecture Transportation Bureau jointly with the Aba Government to be responsible for the communication and coordination with the county and prefecture departments and the supervision of the implementation of anti-poverty projects. At the same time, the counties of Aba Prefecture also set up the leading groups for traffic poverty alleviation and assigned the duties to relevant departments and towns, forming a good situation of working with each other to jointly promote the poverty alleviation by transport construction. Third, strengthened the supervision and inspection and established the inspection mechanism to guarantee the effectiveness of traffic poverty alleviation projects. In cooperation with the prefecture’s quality supervision stations, construction supervision departments and agricultural departments, the poverty alleviation liaison group strengthened the supervision on traffic poverty alleviation projects to control the project quality, security, progress and fund use. It clearly required the highway quality supervision sub-stations of the prefecture to organize supervision on the quality of traffic poverty reduction projects at least once a quarter and strengthen the supervision and inspection of project quality to ensure the high-quality and high-efficiency of traffic poverty alleviation projects.
Increased technology and personnel support. To enhance the continued momentum of poverty alleviation, in the fixed-point poverty alleviation by transport construction, we adhered to making innovations to the poverty reduction mode and strengthened the cultivation of endogenous dynamics for poor areas. First, combining "blood transfusion" and "blood making", we actively introduced traffic technical personnel. Through a hierarchical selection and assessment in the transportation system, we selected 26 professional technical cadres from 16 provincial and municipal departments and units to support the post-disaster reconstruction and poverty alleviation by transport construction and provide personnel support for the project construction. Second, combining "poverty reduction" with "intelligence support", we vigorously held trainings of personnel for transport construction. To support the "Intellectual Support Project" determined by the planning for poverty alleviation by transport construction, we organized the traffic management and technical personnel of Aba Prefecture to learn the rural road maintenance experience of Jiangsu Province and held two trainings on traffic management for 87 person-times in Beijing, broadening the horizons and enriching the business knowledge of the traffic management personnel of Aba Prefecture. Third, combining the "long-term planning" with the "current situation", we actively carried out scientific poverty alleviation by transport construction. To achieve the goal of post-disaster reconstruction and the "ecological, safe, harmonious and sustainable" development of local traffic poverty alleviation, we coordinated the Research Institute of Highway of the Ministry of Transport to sign a cooperative agreement with Aba Prefecture Transportation Bureau on the joint research of traffic infrastructure management-related mechanisms, planning, key technologies and policy measures, and have applied for 950,000 yuan of research funds and implemented one research project so far. Meanwhile, we coordinated Chongqing Maritime Bureau to sign a pairing-off cooperation agreement with Aba Prefecture Maritime Bureau to promote the development of local maritime industry.
(Ministry of Transport)
Poverty Alleviation of Ministry of Water Resources
【Overview】In 2012, in accordance with national unified deployment for a large-scale poverty alleviation, giving full play to its industrial advantage, the Ministry of Water Resources actively carried out industrial poverty alleviation and social poverty alleviation and undertook the water conservancy-based poverty reduction tasks in five aspects: First, the fixed-point poverty alleviation in 13 counties, namely Chengkou, Wuxi, Kaixian, Yunyang, Fengdu and Wulong of Chongqing City, Fangxian County of Hubei, Tianlin and Lingyun of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Wangmo and Cengheng of Guizhou Province, as well as Guangnan and Funing of Yunnan Province; Second, pairing-off poverty reduction in Guide County of Qinghai Province; Third, key-problem tackling for poverty reduction in Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area; Fourth, pilot poverty alleviation by water conservancy in Tongren and Bijie of Guizhou Province; Fifth, poverty alleviation in water conservancy industry of impoverished regions. Over the past year, the Ministry of Water Resources continued to constantly strengthen the construction of livelihood and water conservancy projects in poor areas through project support, counterpart support and sending cadres, increase support for the water conservancy projects in poor areas focusing on “five water conservancy projects and technology education (rural drinking water, irrigation, rural water and electricity, soil and water conservation, hydrological and technology education), carried out fixed-point poverty alleviation by water conservancy, provided counterpart support for Guide County, promoted the contacts with Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area, launched pilot projects of water conservancy-based poverty reduction and promoted the poverty reduction by water conservancy departments. As a result, the water conservancy poverty alleviation system and mechanisms were more complete, the top-level design became more scientific and reasonable, the investment in water conservancy of poor areas increased steadily and water conservancy construction proceeded in an orderly way.
【Work conference on poverty alleviation by water conservancy development】In 2012, Minister Chen Lei personally chaired a series of work conferences on poverty alleviation, summed up the work experience, made deployments for relevant work, analyzed the current situation and further clarified the work idea and priority. On June 28, 2012, the State Council Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development held in Xingyi of Guizhou the kick-off meeting of regional development and poverty alleviation in Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area. The meeting clarified the significance of the implementation of regional development and poverty alleviation in Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area, made clear the main purpose, overall requirements and key tasks of the regional development and poverty alleviation in Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area and put forward specific requirements on promoting the regional development and poverty alleviation in Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area. During the kick-off meeting, the Ministry of Water Resources and the State Forestry Administration held a meeting on contacting Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area and made overall deployments on the relevant work in the contiguous poor area. On July 9, Minister of Water Resources Chen Lei presided over the work conference on the Ministry of Water Resources on fixed-point poverty alleviation in Chongqing, discussed with Hubei, Chongqing, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and the 13 twinned counties about the anti-poverty work and made deployments for the fixed-point poverty alleviation work in the new stage. The conference comprehensively summarized the fixed-point poverty alleviation work done by the Ministry of Water Resources over the past decade, carried out an in-depth analysis on the new situation, new tasks and new requirements of national poverty alleviation and development as well as the basic situation and pressing needs of the twinned poor counties, conducted mobilization and deployment for the fixed-point poverty alleviation work of the Ministry of Water Resources from a strategic perspective and clarified six key tasks for the fixed-point poverty alleviation. On September 8, the kick-off meeting of the counterpart support for Guide County of Qinghai Province and the construction of a demonstration county of Guide for modern water conservancy was convened in Guide County of Qinghai Province. Minister Chen Lei attended the meeting and delivered an important speech and Vice Minister Jiao Yong chaired the meeting and delivered a concluding speech. The conference clarified the significance of the construction of a demonstration county for modern water conservancy, made clear the objectives, requirements and overall layout of the construction of a demonstration county for modern water conservancy, implemented the planning for the Ministry of Water Resources to support the development of the demonstration county for modern water conservancy in Qinghai Province and made mobilization and deployments for the comprehensive implementation of the planning.
【Pro-poor program】 In 2012, adhering to the principle of planning development first for poverty reduction, the Ministry of Water Resources prepared and issued the "National Planning for Water conservancy-based Poverty Alleviation" and the "National Planning for Fixed-point Poverty Alleviation by Water Conservancy", organized the preparation and, in conjunction with the Qinghai Provincial People's Government, approved the "Development Planning of Demonstration County for Modern Water Conservancy", forming the top-level design for poverty alleviation by water conservancy development, providing a scientific basis for poverty alleviation by water conservancy development in the new stage. First, taking 11 contiguous poor areas as the key targets of poverty alleviation by water conservancy development, based on an in-depth analysis of the features of water resources and the current status and problems of water conservancy infrastructure in impoverished regions, to achieve the overall objective of national anti-poverty work, the National Planning for Water conservancy-based Poverty Alleviation put forward the general idea, objectives, tasks and overall layout of the anti-poverty work by water conservancy development and, based on the actual needs of poor areas, put forward the key projects and implementation arrangements for poverty reduction by water conservancy development as well as the contents of water conservancy reform and management focusing on the key areas, including rural drinking water safety, flood control and drought mitigation, farmland irrigation, water resources development, utilization and protection, rural water and electricity, soil conservation and ecological construction, providing a scientific basis for promoting the reform and development of water conservancy in poor areas. Second, on the basis of an in-depth analysis of the features of water resources and the current status and problems of water conservancy infrastructure in 13 twinned poor counties, to achieve the overall objective of national anti-poverty work, the National Planning for Fixed-point Poverty Alleviation by Water Conservancy put forward the general idea, objectives, tasks, overall layout, key areas for construction and main aid measures of the fixed-point poverty alleviation of the Ministry of Water Conservancy. Third, based on the actual situation, the Development Planning of Demonstration County for Modern Water Conservancy of Guide County, Qinghai Province comprehensively analyzed existing problems and current situation of the water conservancy development in Guide County and, based on the situation of social development in Guide County and to achieve the goal of building a demonstration county for modern water conservancy in Qinghai Province, put forward the scientific overall objective, overall layout and key tasks for the development of modern water conservancy in Guide County.
【Pro-poor policies】 First, actively studied the central and local governments’ measure of making the growth rate of financial funds for water conservancy development in impoverished regions significantly higher than provincial average, and put forward that the growth rate of the central government’s investment in water conservancy in poor areas should be 20-30 percentage points above provincial average. Second, explored the extraction of 10% of the land transfer revenue for the construction of irrigation and water conservancy projects jointly with the Ministry of Finance, and proposed to give priority to impoverished regions in the allocation of water conservancy projects under the control of the central and provincial government. Third, explored the establishment of a mechanism to guarantee annual investment in water conservancy projects of impoverished regions to ensure that priority will be given to poor areas in allocating annual investment in water conservancy construction. Fourth, jointly with the Ministry of Finance, we issued the "Interim Measures on the Management of Central Financial Subsidy Funds for the Maintenance of Public Welfare Water Conservancy Projects in the Central and Western Regions and Impoverished Areas" and introduced the policy for central government to issue subsidies for the maintenance of public welfare water conservancy projects in impoverished areas.
【Poverty alleviation program】 First, issued the "Plan for Contacting Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area" jointly with the State Forestry Administration, established the inter-ministerial joint conference system for the anti-poverty work in the contiguous poor area and clarified the responsibilities and liaison work methods of the member units, laying a foundation for the contacts with the contiguous poor area. Second, issued the "Planning of the Ministry of Water Conservancy for Counterpart Support in the Fixed-point Poverty Alleviation" and proposed to form 13 counterpart support groups composed of 52 units under the Ministry of Water Conservancy to jointly support the economic development of the twinned poor counties by giving full play to the advantages of the member units. Third, issued the "Work Plan for the Ministry of Water Resources to Provide Counterpart Support for the Tibetan Area (Guide County) of Qinghai Province (2011-2020)", clarified the objectives and division of labor and established safeguards, creating good conditions for the smooth implementation of the development planning for demonstration county building for modern water conservancy in Guizhou.
【Field research on poverty alleviation】To complete the new task of poverty alleviation by water conservancy development under the new situation, the Ministry of f Water Resources and the relevant departments and bureaus organized a number of in-depth investigations and researches to understand the situation of grassroots units, found some problems and put forward suggestions, laying a good foundation for promoting the water conservancy-based poverty alleviation. From March 25 to April 10, together with relevant ministries, the Ministry of Water Resources and the State Forestry Administration set up three joint research groups to conduct in-depth research on 19 counties of 9 cities (prefectures) in the three provinces covered by Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area. The research report was fully affirmed by Vice Premier Hui Liangyu. Minister Chen Lei and Deputy Minister Jiao Yong respectively headed an investigation group to carry out in-depth research in Tongren City of Guizhou Province and Wuxi County of Chongqing City. 13 counterpart support groups for fixed-point poverty alleviation carried out research in 13 poor counties to understand local needs and development situation, clarified the objectives, tasks and work priorities, implemented various measures and established a profound friendship with the masses and cadres in impoverished areas. According to statistics, in 2012, 134 cadres at all levels under the Ministry of Water Resources carried out research in the poor counties, including two ministerial leaders.
【Poverty alleviation by project construction】 First, Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area. Annual relief funds of 9.322 billion yuan were issued to the 91 counties in the contiguous poor area of Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan, of which 5.357 billion yuan was from the central government. Addressed the drinking water safety problem of 2,729,400 rural residents, increased effective irrigation area of 196,300 mu, increased, recovered and improved irrigation area of 3.4129 million mu, reinforced 464 dangerous reservoirs and soil erosion area of 646.96 square kilometers, increased hydropower installed capacity of 88,300 kilowatts and completed the project of one ammeter for one household for 150,000 rural households. Second, fixed-point poverty alleviation. 3.637 billion yuan of annual investment was put in the 13 counties covered by the fixed-point poverty alleviation of the Ministry of Water Resources, of which 1.578 billion yuan was from the central government. Addressed the drinking water safety problem of 672,100 rural residents, increased effective irrigation area of 26,400 mu, increased, recovered and improved irrigation area of 319,800 million mu, reinforced soil erosion area of 1.3216 million square kilometers and increased hydropower installed capacity of 467,800 kilowatts. Third, counterpart support for Qinghai. 4.643 billion yuan of annual investment was put in the program, of which 1.767 billion yuan was from the central government. Newly implemented 153 water supply projects, solved the drinking water safety problem of 270,000 people, reinforced 49 dangerous reservoirs, middle and small river basin area of 184.2 kilometers and water and soil erosion area of 157 square kilometers, and increased rural hydropower installed capacity of 54,400 kilowatts. 225 million yuan of annual investment was issued to Guide County, of which 87 million yuan was from the central government. Addressed the drinking water safety problem of 3000 people and 5800 heads of livestock, launched the preparatory works of the Mashi Geyang Reservoir, East River and West River Flood Control Project and the Laxiwa Reservoir’s Irrigation Project, and the key counties for small farmland and water conservancy construction are being constructed. Fourth, pilot project of poverty alleviation by water conservancy development. 998 million yuan of annual funds was issued to Tongren City of Guizhou Province, of which 855 million yuan was from the central government. Continued the construction of three medium-sized reservoirs, newly built two medium-sized reservoirs, reinforced 71 dangerous reservoirs, solved the drinking water safety problem of 340,000 rural residents, increased, improved and recovered irrigation area of 140,000 mu, reinforced water and soil erosion area of 50 square kilometers and increased small hydropower installed capacity of 22,000 kilowatts. 1.766 billion yuan of annual investment was issued to Bijie City of Guizhou Province, of which 930 million yuan was from the central government. Addressed the drinking water safety problem of 1.2875 million rural residents and reinforced 28 dangerous reservoirs. The preliminary work of Jiayan hydro project is proceeding smoothly and we’ve completed the review and approval of the project planning report and environmental impact assessment report, and submitted the project proposal to the National Development and Reform Commission. Fifth, poverty alleviation by water conservancy industry. In 2012, central water conservancy construction funds of 32.576 billion yuan was allocated to 832 counties in the contiguous poor areas and key counties for national poverty alleviation and development, with a substantial increase over 2011. The financial funds were mainly used in the rural drinking water safety, reinforcement of dangerous reservoirs, reconstruction and water-saving transformation of large- and medium-sized irrigation areas, construction of small-scale irrigation and water conservancy works, governance of medium and small rivers, conservation of water and soil, ecological construction and the construction of other livelihood and water conservancy projects. 4.432 billion yuan was allocated for water source projects, 5.527 billion yuan was issued for the reinforcement of dangerous reservoirs, resulting in an increased and recovered reservoir capacity of 90,580,200 cubic meters; 1.233 billion yuan was issued for river governance, resulting in an increased and reinforced riverbank of 833.87 kilometers; 5.666 billion yuan was allocated for medium and small river governance, increasing river regulation length by 312.93 kilometers; 8.772 billion yuan was issued for rural drinking water safety projects, addressing the drinking water problem of 11 million rural residents; 1.188 billion yuan was put in the construction of irrigation areas and water-saving transformation projects, increasing and improving irrigation area of 962,800 mu; 3.401 billion yuan was allocated for the construction of small water conservancy projects, 1.168 billion yuan was arranged for soil conservation and ecological construction; and 659 million yuan, 210 million yuan and 320 million yuan was allocated respectively to support the construction of rural hydropower projects, the transformation and renovation of large-scale irrigation and drainage pumping stations and the construction of industrial capacity building projects, etc.
【Poverty alleviation by sending cadres】 In 2012, the Ministry of Water Resources sent 22 cadres to serve the impoverished regions, including 4 department and bureau leaders and 18 division heads. Two cadres served with Chongqing Water Conservancy Bureau and Fangxian County of Hubei Province to support the fixed-point poverty alleviation; 20 cadres served with the provincial, prefectural (city) government and the relevant departments covered by the Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area, mainly assisting local contiguous poor area contact work and fixed-point poverty alleviation. Under the leadership of the provincial poverty alleviation office leading group and local party committees and governments, the sending cadres played a role of a bridge in the anti-poverty work and made their own contribution to the cause of poverty alleviation.
【Counterpart support】37 organs, divisions, bureaus and affiliated units of the Ministry of Water Resources formed 13 counterpart support groups to promote the poverty alleviation in 13 designated poor counties, organized the preparation of the counterpart support plan, signed the counterpart support agreement and further clarified the responsibilities, laying a good foundation for the counterpart support work in the next stage. The groups actively carried out various kinds of assistance work to help the water conservancy departments and the masses of the poor counties address practical problems. First, carried out activities of donating for poor students and delivering warmth and love for those in need. The relevant units of the Ministry of Water Resources donated a total of 240,000 yuan in cash and 20,000 yuan in kind, subsidized 120 excellent students from needy families, supported 66 poverty-stricken households and provided financial aid for one welfare house. Second, vigorously provided water conservancy technological support. The counterpart support groups appointed professional technicians to guide and help 13 poor counties prepare the poverty alleviation planning and sent senior engineering technicians to carry out field research in the water conservancy project construction sites in the poor counties, providing a theoretical basis for water conservancy project technology demonstration.
【Business training】In 2012, to address the shortage of talents and backward management for grassroots water conservancy construction, the Ministry of Water Resources attached importance to the improvement of the professional competence of grassroots water conservancy cadres, successively held seven business training courses and invited relevant experts to give lectures on the pro-poor policies in the new stage and the difficulties, key points and hot issues in water conservancy work for grassroots s water conservancy cadres, broadening the horizons and enhance the ability of the participants to deal with practical problems, welcomed by the trainees. Among them, one training course was held for Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area, and more than 110 grassroots water conservancy cadres from 91 counties of 15 prefectures (cities) in the three provinces and autonomous regions concerned attended the event; six training courses were held for 13 poor counties and 203 water conservancy technical cadres of the impoverished counties were present at the meeting.
(Yu Ze, Ministry of Water Resources)
Poverty Alleviation of Ministry of Agriculture
【Overview】 In 2012, the Ministry of Agriculture attached great importance to the anti-poverty work and, according to the relevant deployments and requirements of the central government, earnestly implemented the spirit of the “Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)” and the central work conference on poverty alleviation and development. Based on the actual situation of agricultural and rural development in poor areas, Xinjiang and Tibet, focusing on promoting the development of agriculture and animal husbandry industry and increasing the income of farmers, and giving play to its industrial advantage, the Ministry of Agriculture issued a series of preferential policies and adopted many aid measures to increase efforts on the anti-poverty work to promote the sustainable income growth of farmers, steady development of agriculture and rural prosperity and harmony in impoverished regions.
【Work conference on poverty alleviation】In May 2012, the Ministry of Agriculture held the work conference on the fixed-point poverty alleviation and industrial poverty alleviation in Wuling Mountain Area, made a comprehensive summary of the fixed-point poverty alleviation in Wuling Mountain Area over the past decade, made deployments for the anti-poverty work during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, organized 20 affiliated institutions to sign cooperative agreements with the agricultural departments of the designated poor areas and held the poverty-relief materials handover ceremony in the poor areas. After the meeting, the Ministry of Agriculture issued the "Work Priorities and Division of Labor for the Ministry of Agriculture to Support Agricultural Development in the Designated Poor Areas During the ‘12th Five-Year Plan’ Period" and clarified the support priorities and department in charge of the counterpart support work in the next stage. In July, the Ministry of Agriculture convened the work conference on counterpart support for Xinjiang and Tibet and made deployments on the specific measures to support Xinjiang and Tibet. In September, the Ministry of Agriculture held the first meeting of the inter-ministerial conference on the regional development and poverty alleviation at the southern foot of Daxing’anling Mountain Area to actively address the difficulties and problems in the development of the contiguous poor area. In October, the Ministry of Agriculture held the forum on poverty alleviation and the development of agriculture and animal husbandry industry at the southern foot of Daxing’anling Mountain Area to effectively accelerate the poverty alleviation and the development of agriculture and animal husbandry industry.
【Working mechanism】Improved the lead agency for poverty reduction. To strengthen the leadership on its poverty alleviation and development work in the new stage, the Ministry of Agriculture changed the original "Leading Group of the Ministry of Agriculture for Fixed-point Poverty Alleviation and Counterpart Support for Xinjiang and Tibet" into "Leading Group of the Ministry of Agriculture for Poverty Alleviation and Development and Counterpart Support for Xinjiang and Tibet", and increased the functions of poverty alleviation in contiguous poor areas with particular difficulties and industrial poverty alleviation. Relevant department director of the Ministry of Agriculture acted as the head and the chief economist acted as the deputy head of the leading group. 31 organs, departments, bureaus and affiliated institutions of the Ministry of Agriculture were the member units. Established an inter-ministerial contact system. The Ministry of Agriculture established the inter-ministerial joint conference system for the anti-poverty work at the southern foot of Daxing’anling composed by more than 20 ministries and commissions as well as Inner Mongolia, Jilin and Heilongjiang. In addition, the Ministry of Agriculture also participated in the inter-ministerial joint conference systems established for other contiguous poor areas and provided relevant materials on agricultural development for other contiguous poor areas’ liaison units. Established pairing-off poverty alleviation mechanism. Strengthened communications with the relevant departments, actively helped address the relevant problems of the contiguous poor area and made policy recommendations. 19 organs, divisions, bureaus and affiliated institutions of the Ministry of Agriculture were designated to provide counterpart support for 19 counties (cities, banners) at the southern foot of Daxing’anling. Established the expert advisory system. To meet the agricultural development needs of the counties at the southern foot of Daxing’anling, the Ministry of Agriculture set up an expert advisory group to provide technical consulting service and crack the hard nut for development through field survey, lectures and technical guidance. Established the cadre sending system. Since 2012, the Ministry of Agriculture has selected cadres or professional technicians to practice in the contiguous poor areas at the southern foot of Daxing’anling and received sending cadres and professional technicians from the agricultural departments at the southern foot of Daxing’anling for practice. Established the propaganda system. The Ministry of Agriculture regularly or irregularly reported to the Xinjiang Work Coordination Group Office of the Central Government, the Tibetan Work Coordination Group Office of the Central Government, the National Development and Reform Commission and LGOP the situation of industrial poverty alleviation, anti-poverty work in the contiguous poor area, fixed-point poverty alleviation and counterpart support for Xinjiang and Tibet. Some reports were forwarded to the relevant central leading comrades, the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council. Meanwhile, we opened up special columns at the websites of the Ministry of Agriculture, China Agricultural Information Network and Farmer's Daily to make propaganda for the anti-poverty work and information of the Ministry of Agriculture. Formulated the plan on division of labor for key work. In 2012, the Ministry of Agriculture successively developed the plans on division of labor to promote the sound and rapid economic development in Guizhou and the revitalization and development of former Central Soviet Area in Gannan, support the development of minorities and promote agricultural development in the poor areas, refined the key tasks, clarified the division of labor and assigned the relevant responsibilities to fully support the revitalization and development of agricultural industry in poor areas .
【Field research guidance】Based on the actual development situation of impoverished regions, giving fully play to their functional advantages, various departments, bureaus and subordinates of the Ministry of Agriculture conducted special field research in various forms on the development of featured agriculture and industries, quality safety of farm produce, animal and plant quarantine, etc. In 2012, the Ministry of Agriculture sent more than 40 ministerial leaders and more than 200 department cadres to conduct field research in the contiguous poor areas. In February, the Ministry of Agriculture carried out a one-month activity of “investigation into one hundred towns and ten thousand households”. The research group conducted field research in the designated poor counties and the contiguous poor areas at the southern foot of Daxing’anling. Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu headed an investigation group to visit the rural households in Weining County of Guizhou, helped local residents make clear development ideas and implement industrial development. Vice Minister Niu Dun headed a research group to visit Xiangxi of Hunan and, through combining poverty alleviation and development with industrial development, helped the farmers improve the ability for comprehensive agricultural development. In April, the Ministry of Agriculture formed a research group with relevant staffs of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Water Resources and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development to carry out field research in the Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area and held a forum with the principals of relevant departments of Guangxi on the special difficulties, strategic positioning and key construction projects. In May, Minister of Agriculture Han Changfu accompanied the central leaders to carry out field research on anti-poverty work and the development of featured industries in Wuling Mountain Area. In May, Vice Minister Yu Xinrong conducted a field survey on the poor areas in Enshi Prefecture of Hubei Province to make clear the idea and key points for poverty reduction. In September, Vice Minister Chen Xiaohua headed a research group to carry out an investigation into the production of main crops in Xinjiang and made deployments for winter wheat planting.
【Planning preparation】Issued guidance on poverty alleviation. The Ministry of Agriculture issued the "Guiding Opinions of the Ministry of Agriculture on Poverty Alleviation by the Agricultural Industry" to clarify six major tasks, namely to develop characteristic agriculture, to strengthen infrastructure construction, to accelerate agricultural technological advancement, to promote industrial management, to expand market development and to increase efforts on ecological protection, becoming a programmatic document to guide the poverty reduction by agricultural sector. Announced the planning for poverty alleviation and development. Successively issued four programs to clarify the layout and specific measures for competitive industries, namely the "Poverty Alleviation and Development Program of Agricultural Sector (2011-2020)", the "Development Planning for Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Industry in the Contiguous Poor Areas at the Southern Foot of Daxing’anling (2011-2020)", the "Program to Support the Development of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Industry in Xinjiang (2011-2020)" and the "Program to Support the Development of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Industry in Xinjiang (2011-2020)". The Ministry of Agriculture also actively cooperated with LGOP and the National Development and Reform Commission to prepare the "Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation Planning for the Contiguous Poor Areas at the Southern Foot of Daxing’anling (2011-2020) ". Helped develop industrial planning. Planning and Design Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture and other subordinate units helped prepare more than 20 industrial planning, including the "Modern Agricultural Development Planning for Enshi of Hubei", the "Development Plan for Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Seed Industry in Tibet Autonomous Region (2011-2020)" the "Overall Planning for Qinghai Trade and Logistic Center of Agricultural and Animal Products in China" and the "Shannan Plateau Ecological Animal Husbandry Demonstration Park Planning", etc.
【Pro-poor policies】Based on the actual needs of impoverished areas, the Ministry of Agriculture continued to give priority to impoverished areas in the implementation of farming-benefit policies. Gave priority to poor areas in the implementation of seed subsidy policy. Further expanded the scale of seed subsidy and further enhanced the standards for some species. Based on the actual situations of industrial development in contiguous poor areas, the Ministry of Agriculture included rice, wheat, corn and cotton, the soybean of Northeast and Inner Mongolia as well as the winter rape of the ten provinces and municipalities along the Yangtze River, Xinyang of Henan and Hanzhong and Ankang of Shaanxi into the subsidy coverage. The subsidy standard for wheat, corn, soybean and oilseed rate planting is 10 yuan per mu, and the seed subsidy standard for wheat of Xinjiang rose from 10 yuan per mu to 15 yuan per mu. Meanwhile, we promoted the implementation of barley, yak and potato seed subsidy policy in Tibet and the Tibetan areas of four provinces. Implemented the subsidy policy for grassland ecological protection. From 2011 onwards, the state will fully establish the mechanism to subsidize grassland ecological protection in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Ningxia and Yunnan as well as the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Increased subsidies for rural biogas construction. In the allocation of subsidies for rural biogas construction, priority was given to the western contiguous poor areas. 200 yuan of subsidy was provided for each household using biogas in the west and northeast areas of China, 1600 yuan for each household in the central areas, 1300 yuan for east areas, 3500 yuan for Tibet and 3000 yuan for other Tibetan areas and the three prefectures in Southern Xinjiang. Subsidies of 25,000, 35,000 and 45,000 yuan were respectively provided for each rural service outlet in the east, central and western regions. As for the subsidies for large and medium-sized biogas digesters, the central government provides 25%, 35% and 45% of the total investment respectively as subsidies, but at most one million yuan, 1.5 million yuan or 2 million yuan. Subsidies for joint household biogas digesters are 120% of the biogas consumption per household. Issued subsidy policy for Xinjiang’s cotton sold to other areas. Continued to provide subsidies for the transportation of Xinjiang’s cotton and cotton yarn to other regions and reduce railway construction fund. Raised the subsidy standard from 400 yuan / ton to 500 yuan / ton. Promote the implementation of agricultural insurance. Actively promoted and supported poverty-stricken areas such as Guizhou, Yunnan and Gansu to implement agricultural insurance system and give priority to poor areas in the introduction of the relevant policies.
【Poverty alleviation by project construction】In 2012, through agricultural infrastructure projects, such as increasing a hundred billion tons of grain production, seed project, standardized pig breeding, conservation tillage, grassroots agricultural extension system, returning grazing land to grassland, rural biogas, agricultural product quality control system and the projects of comprehensive agricultural development sector, as well as the financial funds such as seed subsidies, soil testing and fertilizer subsidies, high yield, farm machinery purchase subsidy, subsidies for primary processing of agricultural products in producing areas, subsidies for improving soil organic matter, grassland ecological protection award and grants, rural labor training subsidy and agricultural standardization demonstration subsidy, the Ministry of agriculture continued to increase investment. According to preliminary statistics, in 2012, the Ministry of Agriculture allocated a total of 27.395 billion yuan of central financial funds for the agricultural infrastructure construction in 14 contiguous poor areas, up 37.37% over 2011, of which 1.981 billion yuan was allocated to the contiguous poor areas at the southern foot of Daxing’anling, and 6.67 billion yuan, 2.817 billion yuan and 5.546 billion yuan was respectively issued to Xinjiang, Tibet and the Tibetan areas of four provinces, up 8.62%, 5.35% and 81.6% over 2011, effectively promoting the enhancement of comprehensive production capacity of local agriculture and animal husbandry industry and the improvement of the production and living conditions of local farmers and herdsmen.
【Poverty alleviation by science and technology】 Established grassroots agricultural technology extension system. Through the implementation of grassroots agricultural technology extension system reform and construction subsidy projects in impoverished areas and the construction of a fast channel of "experts – agricultural technicians - technology demonstration households" for the transformation of agricultural technology achievements, we established the county, town and village agricultural technology experimental and demonstration network to accelerate the popularization and application of the dominant species and technologies and promote the transformation of agricultural technology achievements in impoverished regions. Launched major research projects. The Ministry of Agriculture organized relevant experts to study the livestock breeding technology for the pasturing areas in Qinghai – Tibet Plateau, assisted local governments to develop animal husbandry industry development planning and strove for research funds of 108 million yuan for public welfare (agricultural) research. Equipped with Technology Through-train. Successively held the Agricultural Technology "Through-train" handover ceremony in the twinned poverty-stricken areas and the contiguous poor areas at the southern foot of Daxing’anling, and provided 32 agricultural technology service vehicles for 19 grassroots agricultural technology extension departments in 8 poor counties and the contiguous poor areas at the southern foot of Daxing’anling. Organized activities of poverty alleviation by science and technology. In the form of technology manuals, technical guide, radio, television, online technology library, academic forums and technology promotion, relying on the competitive featured agricultural resources and leading industries in poor areas, the units directly under the Ministry of Agriculture helped develop and implement the implementation plans for featured industry bases and carried out the authentication of "Three Qualities and A Standard", held pest prevention and control technical training and launched the risk assessment of quality safety of farm produce, etc. Since 2012, for five consecutive years, the Farmers’ Daily will provide one Farmers’ Daily for free for each of the 4540 administrative villages in Enshi of Hubei and Xiangxi of Hunan.
【Poverty alleviation by talents】Carried out two-way cadre sending. In 2012, the Ministry of Agriculture sent a total of 23 to serve the twinned poor areas and the Tibetan areas of Xinjiang, Tibet and Qinghai, arranged two "doctor service group" members to work in Xinjiang, receive 9 cadres from the poor areas to work in the Ministry of Agriculture, five “Western Light" visiting scholars and three people for "special training" from Xinjiang and Tibet. Held practical talent training. Relying on the rural practical talent training bases in Sandaogou Village of Xinjiang and Caina Village of Tibet, the Ministry of Agriculture held trainings for 499 rural development leaders; selected 60 rural practical talent leaders from Enshi of Hubei and Xiangxi of Hunan to receive training for rural construction model village building in Hancunhe Village of Beijing, Liuzhuang Village of Henan, Huaxi Village of Jiangsu and Xixiakou Village of Shandong Province. Carried out vocational skills training. To meet the agricultural development needs of impoverished regions, the Ministry of Agriculture carried out agricultural vocational skills training, agricultural business launching training and agricultural technology training, raised the subsidy for farmers receiving vocational skills training from 367 yuan per person in 2011 to 600 yuan per person, raised the subsidy for agricultural business launch training from 2500 yuan per person to 3000 yuan per person, and increased agricultural technical training subsidy of 100 yuan per person. Carried out the activity of door-to-door education service. The Ministry of Agriculture carried out the activity of door-to-door education service for five times, held the training course on the transformation of production mode for animal husbandry of Xinjiang, and organized capacity building training for grassroots agricultural public service personnel in the twinned poor areas, improving the quality of local agricultural and husbandry cadres and technicians.
【Poverty alleviation by marketing】Carried out field research. Attaching importance to the construction of agricultural products market in impoverished regions, the Ministry of Agriculture carried out field research on invigorating the circulation of agricultural markets in poor areas and proposed to strengthen the construction of farms and other rural markets. Issued preferential policies. In its declaration of designated markets, the Ministry of Agriculture issued appropriate preferential policies on the trading volume of western poor regions. Started market building. Established national agricultural markets in poor areas and launched the construction of potato market in Dingxi of Gansu and navel orange market in Gannan of Jiangxi. Built a marketing platform. Actively helped poor areas build a variety of exhibition platforms, held special agricultural product introduction and marketing events and organized the docking of production and marketing. Promoted media marketing. CCTV 7, Chinese Agricultural Information Network and Farmer's Daily opened special columns to publish free advertisements to enhance the influence and popularity of featured agricultural products of impoverished regions. Reduced certification costs. The Green Food Development Center of the Ministry of Agriculture continued to reduce the green food and organic food certification fees and logo use fees for the designated poor areas, Tibet and Xinjiang, reduced the booth fee of organic food enterprises from Enshi Prefecture on Shanghai Green Expo in 2012, assisted in the construction of green food and organic food standardization bases, and was listed among the "100 Innovative Cases of Social Poverty Alleviation" formulated by LGOP.
【Ecological poverty alleviation】Continued to implement the project of returning grazing land to grassland. The Ministry of Agriculture continued to implement the project of returning grazing land to grassland, involving 72 key counties for national poverty alleviation and development. Through grazing prohibition, rotational grazing in designated area, livestock breeding in pens and the construction of artificial forage bases, we rehabilitated the degraded grassland in poor areas and promoted the improvement of ecological environment in impoverished regions and the income growth of farmers. Expanded the coverage of subsidy policy for grassland ecological protection. Included the pasturing areas and semi- pasturing areas in Hebei, Shanxi, Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang Province into the coverage of subsidy policy for grassland ecological protection, expanding the coverage of the subsidy policy to 13 provinces (autonomous regions), involving 268 key counties for national poverty alleviation and development, which is of great significance to grassland ecological environmental restoration, grassland husbandry transformation and the income growth of herdsmen. Issued preferential policies for rural biogas construction. Taking rural biogas construction as an important part of rural poverty reduction, in the allocation for household biogas, small biogas projects, rural service stations and large and medium-sized biogas projects, we gave priority to impoverished regions. Protected wild species for quality agriculture. Allocated 41.46 million yuan of central financial funds to support the construction of 28 agricultural wild plants habitat protection zones in poor areas, effectively protecting the wild plant species for quality agriculture. Carried out clean agricultural production. Allocated 190.8 million yuan of central financial funds to support the clean agricultural production in impoverished regions, striving to promote the utilization of rural garbage, sewage, manure and crop stalks.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】 The Ministry of Agriculture steadily pushed forward a new round of poverty alleviation in eight counties of Enshi of Hubei and Xiangxi of Hunan. In 2012, a total of 425 million yuan of agricultural construction and central financial funds was issued for the poor areas to develop featured industries, increase intellectual support and strengthen ecological construction. As for the development of special industries, the largest domestic selenium-rich tea base and the largest alpine vegetable base, konjac base, potato base and pomelo base of Hubei Province were set up in Enshi Prefecture, fruit, animal husbandry, aquaculture and specialty cash crops developed well in Xiangxi Prefecture, and Xiangxi has become the Home of Ponkan in China, the largest domestic lily production base and the world's largest production base of selenium-rich kiwi fruit base. As for intellectual support, 29 township agricultural technology extension agencies and three national potato, rice and tea experimental stations were set up in Xiangxi and Enshi Prefecture. In 2012, the Ministry of Agriculture held more than 150 trainings for 28,000 cadres, technicians, rural labors and leaders in becoming rich of the designated impoverished areas. To strengthen ecological construction, we built 800,000 household biogas digesters in the poor areas, covering 57% of the rural households with conditions for biogas digester building, initially forming the "pig - biogas - tea" cycle agricultural development pattern with biogas as a link characterized by the coordinated development of planting and breeding industry. Meanwhile, we launched the project of Zhongjian River Giant Salamander Nature Reserve management in Xianfeng County of Enshi Prefecture and the restocking project in Laifeng County, etc., protecting the important aquatic germplasm resources in the poor areas.
(Ministry of Agriculture)
Poverty Alleviation of Ministry of Commerce
【Overview】 In 2012, the Ministry of Commerce earnestly implemented the spirit of the central poverty alleviation work conference and the strategic deployment made by the “Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)” on industrial poverty alleviation, fully mobilized the enthusiasm of the masses and cadres of the whole industry, made good use of the system resources and, taking the cooperation between the ministry and relevant provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) as a platform, starting from project policy, relying on fund support, vigorously played its industrial advantage in poverty alleviation by commercial development, highlighted the characteristics of commerce-based poverty alleviation, made innovations to the ideology and create new highlights of poverty alleviation by commercial development and achieved positive results. At the same time, did a good job of fixed-point poverty alleviation to actively boost the development of commercial business in Guang’an County of Guang’an City, Yilong County of Nanchong City of Sichuan and Chengbu Miao Autonomous County in Shaoyang of Hunan Province.
【Invigorate the circulation for market prosperity】Established the agricultural products circulation system. In 2012 , the Ministry of Commerce Department allocated 740 million yuan (same currency below) of central financial funds to support the pilot work of modern circulation of agricultural products in the impoverished regions of 12 provinces (autonomous regions), including Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Sichuan, Anhui, etc., and vigorously strengthened infrastructure construction for the circulation of agricultural products in pilot areas. As of 2012, the pilot provinces (autonomous regions) had used the central financial funds and local matching funds to support 47 agricultural products wholesale markets, 141 farmers markets and 164 agricultural products circulation enterprises to strengthen infrastructure construction for the circulation of agricultural products, constantly enhancing the level of modernization of circulation facilities and further improving the market trading environment. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Commerce issued 280,000,000 yuan of special funds for the implementation of pilot projects of modern circulation of farm produce - "South-to-North Vegetable Transfer" in Yunnan, Hainan and Guangxi, allocated 110 million yuan of special funds to support the pilot project of "West-to-East Fruit Transfer" in Jiangxi (Ganzhou) and Xinjiang (including Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps), set up 65 supply hubs in the primary origins of competitive vegetables and fruits, established 12 sales markets in the main marketing area and supported the construction of 56 production – marketing – circulation chains, building the inter-regional stable distribution channels of farm produce. Driven by the pilot projects, the circulation infrastructure level in the producing areas of the pilot regions, especially impoverished areas was significantly enhanced, easing the problem of sales of regional agricultural products and effectively promoting farmers' income growth. Accelerated the construction of rural market system. The Ministry of Commerce continued to implement the "Ten Thousand Villages and One Thousand Towns Market Project", allocated 1.5 billion yuan of special funds to guide the transfer of urban circulation enterprises towards the countryside based on capital dividing by factor method, increased rural commercial service offices, developed modern methods of distribution and improved rural consumption environment, playing an important role in enhancing the production and living standards of the farmers in impoverished regions and helping farmers find jobs. 5.15 million yuan of projects funds were allocated for Yilong County and 5.454 million yuan of project funds were issued to Gonghe County of Qinghai Province. In addition, 2 million yuan of special funds was allocated to support the construction of Yilong County Renewable Resources Terminal Market and the construction of Guang’an District Modern Logistic Base and Renewable Resources Recycling, Sorting and Processing Base. Upgraded farmers' markets. Taking the opportunity for pilot work, in accordance with the relevant requirements of the Central Committee of CPC and the State Council on anti-poverty work, making good use of the central financial funds and local matching funds, the Ministry of Commerce allocated one million yuan and 300,000 yuan respectively for Sichuan and Anhui Province and completed the upgrading of Huichun and Youfang Harbor Farmers’ Market in Yilong County and the Nanxi Farmers’ Market in Jinzhai County of Anhui Province. Established the market supervision public service system. In 2012, 155 counties (cities, districts) were identified as the key targets of the market supervision public service system. The Ministry of Commerce invested 15.5 million yuan to support the work in 31 key counties for national poverty alleviation and development, including Qingshui County of Gansu Province, accounting for 20% of the total county-level investment for market supervision public service system projects. Established the "quality-assured meat" service system. In 2012, jointly with the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce issued 67 million yuan to support the pilot projects of the establishment of the "quality-assured meat" service system in impoverished regions, of which, 24 million yuan was issued to support the construction of slaughter supervision technology systems in Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Anhui and Henan, and 43 million yuan was allocated to support the standardized transformation of 41 slaughter enterprises in the poor areas of Enshi of Hubei, Xiangxi Tu and Miao Autonomous Region of Hunan as well as Nanchong of Sichuan Province.
【Coordinated and balanced development between regions】 Supported enterprises in central and western regions to participate in Canton Fair. In the assessment of general booth base heavy nuclei and brand booth of the 112th Canton Fair in 2012, priority was given to the central and western regions concentrated with poor areas. In the calculation of general booths, a certain number was first assigned based on regional division, and the export volume of central and western regions was calculated according to the standards of 2-fold and 2.5 -fold to better meet the booth needs of central and western areas. Gave priority to central and western regions in base assessment. In 2011 and 2012, in two batches, the Ministry of Commerce identified 117 demonstration bases for the transformation and upgrading of national foreign trade enterprises, of which 58 were in central and western regions, and gave priority to central and western regions in the base identification in the formulation of the rules for assessment. Multi-channel support for the construction of border trade markets. Held a national training of border trade policy and forum on border trade work, invited the relevant departments to make a detailed interpretation of relevant border trade policies and exchanged ideas with representatives of border provinces and autonomous regions. Meanwhile, we actively coordinated financial departments to increase central government’s transfer payments for border areas and coordinated port offices to strengthen port construction and enhance customs clearance capacity. Supported the development of alternative cultivation in Yunnan. Provided financial and credit support for enterprises engaged in alternative cultivation; with approval from the State Council, buy-back agricultural products for alternative cultivation shall be exempted from import duties and import VAT; encouraged powerful enterprises in Yunnan to engaged in and develop alternative cultivation in Burma and Northern Laos to make local residents stop poppy planting and accelerate local economic development. Actively implemented investment projects. In July 2012, the Ministry of Commerce organized six chambers of import and export trade, namely China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products, China Chamber of Commerce for Import & Export of Light Industrial Products & Arts-Crafts, China Chamber of Commerce for Import & Export of Metals, Minerals & Chemicals, China Chamber of Commerce of Import & Export of Food Stuffs, Native Produce & Animal By-Products, China Chamber of Commerce of Import & Export of Textiles and China Chamber of Commerce for Import & Export of Medicines, and 13 foreign trade enterprises to hold the first meeting on industrial transfer in the pairing-off poverty alleviation in Guang’an District, Guang’an City, Sichuan Province, and established a long-term mechanism for industry connection. During that period, 20 projects were discussed, including 14 industrial projects, 5 agricultural projects and one pharmaceutical project, five letters of cooperation intent were signed and the meeting was a success. Meanwhile, we organized 26 enterprises of Dongguan City Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment, Dongguan Association of Taiwan Investment Enterprises and Dongguan Spun Apparel Association to carry out field research in Yilong County and established the contact mechanism. Decentralization of approval authority for filing. In accordance with the requirements for fixed-point poverty alleviation, the Ministry of Commerce decentralized the approval authority for filing of qualification of foreign trade to Guang’an District and held a training course on foreign trade rights for the commercial system of Guang’an District to ensure the smooth decentralization of approval authority for filing.
【Multi-channel poverty alleviation】 In 2012, the Ministry of Commerce strove for international aid funds of 209.492 million yuan to support the cause of poverty alleviation in China, of which 126.95372 billion yuan was UN multilateral assistance, including 75.72 million yuan from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 26.503 billion yuan from the United Nations Population Fund and 25.24 million yuan from UNDP, involving education, health, medical care, etc., covering several central and western provinces of China; 82.03 million yuan was bilateral aid, involving seven countries such as Australia, Germany, New Zealand and the Netherlands, and seven projects in the field of poverty reduction.
【Promote personnel training for commercial development】In 2012, the Ministry of Commerce provided training funds of 150,000 yuan for Guang’an District and Yilong County of Nanchong City: Supported Guang’an District to hold marketing training for the staffs of local large-scale trading enterprises, held a 14-day housekeeping training for 500 people in Guansheng Town; supported Yilong County to carry out a 60-day business information skills training for poor families, involving 150 people, and arranged 440,000 yuan of special funds for housekeeping training in Yilong County to build a housekeeping service platform. Guang’an and Yilong respectively selected talents to receive training in Suzhou Industrial Park, gave full play to the personnel advantage, deepened trainings of poverty alleviation by personnel and achieved good results. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Commerce sent department-level cadres of the Department of Western Asian and African Affairs to serve as a temporary cadre in Guang’an District and received excellent cadres of Guang’an District Bureau of Business and Yilong County Economic Business and Information Bureau to work in the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of Market Construction. In such a way, we expanded the platform for personnel exchange and enhanced the effectiveness of anti-poverty work of the Ministry of Commerce.
【Resource integration for investment invitation】Guided social resources to carry out pairing-off poverty alleviation. In 2012, the Investment Promotion Agency of the Ministry of Commerce, Schneider Electric (China) Co., Ltd. and China Environmental Protection Foundation jointly carried out relevant anti-poverty work, including the construction of Phase II project of the solar photovoltaic power station of Bibo New Energy Assistance Program (with an investment of 7.1 million yuan) and the caring primary school completion ceremony. Accelerated the development of industry cluster districts. In July 2012, China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Machinery and Electronic Products organized OGI Technology Market Corporation, Beijing Jigongda Automobile Technology Development Ltd and Jiangsu Jiangxu Casting Group Co., Ltd to carry out project matchmaking in Guang’an District National Economic and Technological Development Zone. In August, China Chamber of Commerce of Import & Export of Textiles went to Guang’an District to provide counterpart support for local poverty reduction, reached a preliminary cooperation intention with Guang’an West Cowboy Textile and Apparel Trade and Technology Industrial Park, and introduced this industrial park at its website; helped Guang’an Industrial Park introduce one cross-border investment project, one export project and one large-scale enterprise. Implemented microfinance project. In 2012, China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchange of the Ministry of Commerce signed a memorandum of cooperation with Guang'an District People's Government and, through UNDP Program of "Building An Inclusive Financial System” (CPR/06/202), provided 2 million yuan of microfinance project funds for Guang’an District. Promoted pairing-off poverty alleviation by doing practical things. The Foreign Trade Center of the Ministry of Commerce launched its anti-poverty work in Ruanqiao Village of Baihou Town, Dapu County, Guangdong in 2009. From 2009 to 2012, a total of 1.3828 million yuan of anti-poverty funds was issued, of which 234,600 yuan was invested in 2012 to support five projects, involving assisting poor students, medical service, training, rescue of special groups and income growth. In 2012, 500,000 yuan was issued to support Wanzhou of Chongqing and 500,000 yuan was allocated for Yiling of Hubei, involving highroad building, water conservancy construction and the development of biogas industry. In addition, China Chamber of Commerce for Import & Export of Metals, Minerals & Chemicals allocated one million yuan to support poverty alleviation.
【Highlight key points by combining pilot projects with the work in other areas】The Ministry of Commerce launched 36 aid projects in Guang’an District and Yilong County, including 15 capital projects and 21 policy projects; and issued relief funds of 22.28 million yuan. Entire Village Advancement Program: Allocated 4.2 million yuan to promote the entire village advancement in Nanqiao Village, Da’an Town of Guang’an District, built seven ponds and four bamboo weirs, reinforced Nanqiao Riverway of 1190 meters, increased irrigation area of 1,100 mu; newly built household roads of 28.6 meters, remedied and hardened village roads of 2.8 km; transformed 45 adobe houses and built 60 biogas digesters. Road building projects in Hongse Village: Arranged 950,000 yuan of financial funds to harden the village roads of 4.9 kilometers in Hongse Village, Nongxi Town of Guang’an District, leading the planting of walnut of 600 mu in the village, and the per capita net income of local residents was expected to increase by 300 yuan. Social undertakings projects: Arranged 500,000 yuan to support the construction of eight village-level clinics for Zhandou Village of Dalong Town and Yuemiao Village of Daishi Town in Guang’an District, purchased ECG workstation, ECG monitor, intermediate-frequency therapy apparatus and some other advanced medical equipment; allocated 500,000 yuan to support Guang’an District to improve the cultural infrastructure, purchase cultural, sports and fitness equipment and set up Sangzi Copper Pipe Team; arranged 500,000 yuan to support Guang’an No. 2 Middle School to improve computer hardware and software configuration and build electronic reading rooms, saving textbook cost of more than 100,000 yuan per semester for the school; and issued 1.25 million yuan to establish the standard dining hall of Guang’an Hanlin Primary School and set up the Ministry of Commerce Education Fund. Labor dispatch project: Arranged 600,000 yuan to support labor training and transfer of Guang’an District, striving to dispatch 200 more labors in two years; and organized four service companies to carry out on-site matchmaking activity for 460 work positions in Yilong County. Market emergency dispatching system building projects: Arranged 800,000 yuan to support the construction of Guang’an Market Emergency Dispatching System, determined nine emergency supply enterprises in Guang’an District, including Chongbai Guang’an Mall and Guang’an Jinshan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, with more than 3,000 tons of rice reserves, more than 1,200 tons of edible oil, 260 tons of salt and more than 50,000 bottles of mineral water. Public drinking water projects: Assisted Guang'an to use Japanese free aid fund to implement drinking water projects with an investment of 660,000 yuan in Ganniang Village of Suxi Town, paved main water pipes of 400 meters, and built four pools, one large-diameter well and two computer rooms, addressing the drinking water problem of the village. Large cold storage projects. Under the guidance and support of the Ministry of Commerce, the Guangdong Wen's Group Project covering a land area of 30 mu with an investment of 550 million yuan was officially signed and launched, and the 2000-cubic meter large cold storage project of Chuanwang Food was completed. Chinese herbal medicine base construction projects. The Ministry of Commerce communicated with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on the Chinese herbal medicine production projects for many times. At the end of 2012, the project was reported to the relevant department for review and China Chamber of Commerce for the Import and Export of Medicines and Health Products under the Ministry of Commerce sent relevant person to guide the declaration of green Chinese herbal medicine export base in Yilong County. In addition, the Ministry of Commerce helped Guang’an District implement the oxo-synthesis and selective oxidation biomass energy DS series products projects. Increased fixed-point poverty alleviation objects: On November 8, 2012, according to the arrangements for a new round of fixed-point poverty alleviation by the central and state organs and relevant units, based on the Guang’an and Yilong of Sichuan, the Ministry of Commerce identified Chengbu of Hunan as a new object of the fixed-point poverty alleviation. In 2013, on the basis of previous research, the Ministry of Commerce launched the study of fixed-point poverty alleviation planning for Chengbu County and, learning from the fixed-point poverty alleviation experience and mode in Guang’an and Yilong, to meet the economic development needs of Chengbu, developed and implemented the annual poverty alleviation plan.
【Innovative ideas for poverty reduction】In the field of poverty reduction, we still have a long way to go. Focusing on development-oriented poverty alleviation, the Ministry of Commerce earnestly promoted the anti-poverty work from three aspects: Emancipated the mind. Especially for the twinned impoverished regions, under the principle of "teaching a man how to fish rather than giving him a fish", adhering to poverty alleviation by changing thoughts, we strove to change the ideas of local residents to really lift the masses and cadres of Guang’an and Yilong out of poverty. Optimized the environment. Took advantage of good natural resources in poor areas to develop ecological industry, adhere to sustainable development path, we strove to build a resource-saving and environment-friendly society and avoid industrial development not in line with local situation at the expense of the environment. Developed reasonable planning. The Ministry of Commerce made the overall deployments and formulated the planning based on local situation to avoid the phenomenon of "taking everything in one’s hand" or "taking stopgap measures", and did the relevant work properly step by step to promote the harmonious development of the local economy and society and to achieve the goal of promoting economic growth by business development and accelerating development by economic growth.
(Ministry of Commerce)
Poverty Alleviation of Ministry of Culture
【Overview】 In 2012, the Ministry of Culture attached great importance to poverty alleviation and development work. Adhering to the working idea of "poverty alleviation by culture", based on its cultural resources and relying on cultural projects, the Ministry of Culture increased capital investment to promote project construction, and continued to actively carry out fixed-point poverty alleviation. Through cultural development, it gave full play to the role of culture in maintaining social harmony and stability, improving people's livelihood, strengthening national unity and promoting economic development.
【Poverty alleviation in contiguous impoverished areas with particular difficulties】 According to the “Outline for Poverty Alleviation and Development of China’s Rural Areas (2001-2010)” issued by CPC Central Committee and the State Council, we determined to take 11 contiguous poor areas including Wuling Mountain Area and Wumeng Mountain Area as well as Tibet, the Tibetan areas of four provinces and the three prefectures in Southern Xinjiang that enjoy special policies as the main battlefields of the poverty alleviation work in the new era. As a member unit of the State Council Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development, the Ministry of Culture actively participated in the preliminary investigation, planning formulation, comments on opinions and feedback giving for task completion situation of the 11 contiguous poor areas, and actively strove for project funds to support cultural construction in the contiguous poor areas, providing a strong guarantee for cultural development in contiguous poor areas.
【Construction of County Public Libraries and Cultural Centers】 To effectively address the problems of backward facilities and poor service conditions of the county libraries and cultural centers in impoverished regions, from 2009 to 2012, the central government invested a total of about 1.097 billion yuan to repair 2517 county libraries and cultural centers with business area not up to the standard to make them have basic conditions for public cultural services and provide effective cultural services for the masses. In the planning implementation, based on the actual situation of national poverty-stricken counties, the Ministry of Culture gave appropriate priority to national poverty-stricken counties in the declaration of cultural center and library repair projects. In 2012, the central government issued subsidies of 28.55 million yuan to repair 32 public libraries and 43 cultural centers in 592 national poor counties.
【Spring Rain Project】In 2012, the Ministry of Culture and the Central Civilization Office continued to organize the "Spring Rain Project" - the national cultural volunteers’ activities in border areas. 18 provinces (municipalities), 11 prefecture-level cities and six units directly under the Ministry of Culture implemented 83 voluntary cultural service projects in border minority areas and provided cultural services for Liupan Mountain Area, Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area, Tibet, Tibetan areas of four provinces, some counties, towns and villages of the three prefectures in Southern Xinjiang. A total of more than 1,500 cultural volunteers were recruited to organize theatrical performances, seminars and featured exhibitions for more than 150 times, attracting nearly 200,000 people in poor areas to watch.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】 In accordance with the unified deployments of the State Council, the Ministry of Culture was designated to provide counterpart support for the poverty reduction in Loufan County and Jingle County of Shanxi Province since 1995. Over the past decade, the Ministry of Culture earnestly implemented the requirements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on anti-poverty work, attached great importance to poverty alleviation, adopted many measures, based on its advantages as a state organ and cultural resources, relying on major cultural projects, the Ministry of Culture provided personnel, ideology, education, cultural and economic support and put a lot of human, material and financial resources for the two poor counties, effectively promoting the economic and social development of local areas.
In 2012, the Ministry of Culture actively coordinated the relevant departments to raise funds for the construction of the cultural building integrating cultural center, library, museum and exhibition hall in Jingle County, and coordinated anti-poverty funds of 80,000 yuan to purchase a cultural vehicle for Jingle County to address the inconvenience of vehicle use for mobile stages.
(Ministry of Culture)
Poverty Alleviation of Ministry of Health
【Overview】 According to the new situation, new tasks and new requirements facing poverty alleviation and development, taking into account its tasks of taking the lead to contact Lvliang Mountain Area for local regional development and poverty reduction, fixed-point poverty alleviation, poverty reduction by health service industry and health-based poverty-relief support for Tibet and Xinjiang, in 2012, the Ministry of Health (Editor's note : After the State Council institutional reform, the National Health and Family Planning Commission was set up. This article described the anti-poverty work of the former Ministry of Health) established the Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation and Development and Counterpart Support Work (hereinafter referred to as the “Leading Group”). Minister of Health Chen Zhu and Party Secretary Zhang Mao acted as the heads, Deputy Minister of Health Chen Xiaohong served as the standing deputy head, and 14 departments and bureaus affiliated to the Ministry of Health, former State Food and Drug Administration and State Chinese Medicine Administration Bureau became member units, mainly responsible for guiding relevant work. The Leading Group held the first plenary meeting to make deployments for contacts with Lvliang Mountain Area and fixed-point poverty alleviation in 2012, discussed and approved the “Work Program for the Ministry of Health to Take the Lead to Contact Lvliang Mountain Area for Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation” and clarified the organizations, working mechanism, objectives, tasks, progress and safeguards of the contact work. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health introduced the “Opinions on Division of Labor for Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation in Lvliang Mountain Area under the Responsibility of the Ministry of Health” and further clarified the responsibilities of parties concerned to ensure the effective implementation of various tasks. In addition, we carried out study of policies on poverty reduction by health service industry, issued the “Guidance on Poverty Alleviation by Health Service Industry During the ‘12th Five-Year Plan’ Period” to put forward the objectives of poverty reduction by health service industry from 2015 to 2020, and determined seven tasks and objectives to comprehensively deepen the medical system reform and boost the development of health service industry in contiguous poor areas, namely the implementation of free hospital delivery of rural women, deepening the reform of county-level public hospitals, strengthening standardized construction of village clinics, improving the new rural cooperative medical system, intensify the construction of primary health care institutions, the implementation of the national essential drug system and prevention and control of endemic diseases in key areas.
【Poverty alleviation in contiguous impoverished areas with particular difficulties】 1. Clarified the responsibilities for taking the lead to contact contiguous poor areas. In accordance with the uniform requirements of the State Council Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development, as the leading contact unit of Luliang Mountain Area, the Ministry of Health effectively performed its duties of "contact, research and supervision", i.e. to strengthen the communications between the relevant provincial, autonomous regional and municipal departments of the contiguous poor areas and the relevant central ministries and commission, to carry out investigations and research and put forward opinions and suggestions on major problems facing the development of contiguous poor areas; and to supervise and guide the implementation of regional development and poverty alleviation planning in the contiguous poor areas. 2. Established the consultative mechanism. First, strengthened its communication with the relevant province, contacted and communicated with the relevant departments of Shanxi and Shaanxi Province, coordinated to solve difficulties and problems encountered in the work, and guided the multi-level all-round cooperation and communications between the ministry and the provinces or between the two provinces. The Leading Group Office sent some people to contact the leading departments of Shanxi and Shaanxi, and established the work contact between the Ministry of Health and the two provinces’ government and poverty alleviation and development departments. Vice Governor of Shanxi Province Guo Yingguang headed a delegation to the Ministry of Health, talked about the planning formulation for regional development and poverty alleviation in Lvliang Mountain Area of Shanxi Province and negotiated about how to formulate the poverty alleviation and development planning for Lvliang Mountain Area and how to promote the work of cadre sending by the Ministry of Health, etc. Second, strengthened inter-ministerial work consultation, proactively contacted the State Council departments for communication and negotiation on support policies for Lvliang Mountain Area, and actively participated in poverty alleviation and development work of other contiguous poor areas. Established the inter-ministerial joint conference system for regional development and poverty alleviation in Lvliang Mountain Area composed of 26 departments and the people’s governments of Shanxi and Shaanxi Province; held the first meeting of the inter-ministerial joint conference system, clarified the responsibilities of the member units and established the coordination mechanism for smooth communication. Third, strengthened work consultation within the ministry and made clear the division of labor for relevant departments, bureaus and subordinated units of the Ministry of Health to ensure timely deployments and arrangements for the relevant work. 3. Carried out investigations and research. The Ministry of Health successively organized four field researches on poverty reduction in Lvliang Mountain Area, covering 20 counties of the area, aiming to understand the economic and social development situation of this area and strengthen the emotional exchange between cadres and the masses. The Ministry of Health sent 15 young cadres to conduct a one-month field research of “promoting medical reform by understanding the actual situations based on field survey” in five counties of the contiguous poor area to deeply understand the situation of poor areas, further strengthen its contacts with local areas and enhance the pertinence of the relevant work. Comrade Chen Xiaohong headed a research group to carry out field survey on the anti-poverty work and the development of health service industry in Lvliang Mountain Area of Shaanxi and Shanxi Province, held the “Forum on the Development of Health Service Industry in Lvliang Mountain Area” in Taiyuan City of Shanxi Province, and listened to the opinions and suggestions of the two provinces’ leaders and the health and poverty alleviation departments. Set up five research groups of 30 members from former State Food and Drug Administration, State Chinese Medicine Administration Bureau and 14 departments of the Ministry of Health to carry out field survey in 15 counties of Lvliang Mountain Area. Minister of Health Chen Zhu, Vice Minister Liu Qian respectively headed a research group to carry out field survey in Lvliang City and Linfen City of Lvliang Mountain Area to understand the relevant work on poverty alleviation and development and the deepening of medical reform, and listened to the opinions and suggestions of the relevant parties. 4. Actively participated in planning preparation. Actively participated in the formulation of the “Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation Planning of Lvliang Mountain Area (2011-2020)” led by LGOP and the National Development and Reform Commission, send cadres to take part in the research and discussion on planning formulation and put forward suggestions on the relevant contents of the planning combined with the research outcomes to improve the planning. 5. Tailored poverty alleviation projects. Based on the actual situation of nutritional deficiencies of children in poor areas, the Ministry of Health actively coordinated the Ministry of Finance to set up the “Pilot Project of Nutrition Improvement of Children in Poor Areas” in the health projects of central transfer payment. In 2012, the central government allocated 100 million yuan of special funds for the pilot projects of child nutrition intervention in eight contiguous poor areas, including Lvliang Mountain Area, Wuling Mountain Area, Tibet, three prefectures in Southern Xinjiang and the Tibetan areas of four provinces, involving 274,000 infants of 6-24 months old in 100 counties, effectively improving the nutrition and health status of the children in impoverished regions. After the successful implementation of the pilot projects, the project will be launched in 680 counties of 14 contiguous poor areas. This is the first domestic major public health service project for children since the implementation of the recent medical reform and the first poverty alleviation project by health service industry tailored for contiguous poor areas. The implementation of this pilot project will provide valuable explorations for the Ministry of Health to carry out in-depth poverty alleviation and development and provide counterpart support for the poor areas. 6. Organized the implementation of intellectual poverty reduction. First, activity coordinated the hospitals under the budget management of the Ministry of Health to send the national medical team composed of ten experts to carry out medical tour in four cities of Lvliang Mountain Area, gave full play to the leading role of the national medical team, and helped medical agencies in poor areas carry out medical service and skills trainings to enhance the business capacity and working ability of local medical workers. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health also sent national mobile medical teams to Tibet, Yunnan and the three prefectures in Southern Xinjiang. Second, coordinated Peking University People's Hospital and China-Japan Friendship Hospital to provide counterpart support for some medical agencies in Lvliang Mountain Area of Shanxi and Shaanxi, successively held the live demonstration of the Peking University People's Hospital – Lvliang Mountain Area Community, the kick-off meeting for China-Japan Friendship Hospital to provide counterpart support for some medical agencies in Lvliang Mountain Area of Shaanxi Province, and the kick-off meeting of the medical service community in Lvliang Mountain Area in Taiyuan City of Shanxi Province. Through the construction of medical service communities, by effective means of remote consultation, remote education, personnel training, transfer treatment and clinic appointment, it strove to help the medical service systems in the contiguous poor areas to comprehensively strengthen the service capacity. Third, actively organized refresher training for the cadres of contiguous poor areas, held the “Training Course on Deepening the Medical and Health System Reform in Lvliang Mountain Area” jointly with the National School of Administration, organized centralized training of city and county government leaders of the contiguous poor area and the leaders in charge of the provincial, municipal and county-level health administrative departments to further improve the theoretical level, broaden the horizons and improve the ability of the cadres in the contiguous poor area and effectively boost the sound and rapid development of health service industry in Lvliang Mountain Area. Fourth, organized relevant experts to hold trainings of rural basic public health services in Lvliang Mountain Area to enhance the theoretical level and service capabilities of the grassroots public health service personnel of relevant cities and counties and the county-level teachers and promote the effective implementation of the state's basic public health services in this area. 7. Actively strove for social resources. Coordinated China Telecommunications Corporation and Life Care Networks(Beijing) Limited to donate 500 sets of remote ECG monitoring systems worth 12 million yuan to the grassroots medical agencies in 20 counties of Lvliang Mountain Area, and held the donation ceremony in Taiyuan City of Shanxi Province to enhance the grassroots medical service capacity and level in the contiguous poor area. Relevant department leaders including Chen Zhu, Liu Qian and Fan Xiaojian took part in the event.
【Poverty alleviation by medical services】 In 2012, the Ministry of Health continued to take the protection and improvement of people's livelihood as its mission and, giving full play to the advantages of the health sector for poverty reduction, actively promoted the reform and development of health services in poor areas to enable the people of poor areas to benefit from the poverty alleviation and development as well as the medical reform. First, increased financial support. Actively coordinated relevant departments to allocate 138.3 billion yuan of central health service funds to support the poor areas to carry out health infrastructure construction, improve the new rural cooperative medical system and strengthen health service personnel training. Second, strengthened health service system building. Supported the construction of 7137 projects in impoverished regions, involving prefecture-level city hospitals, county hospitals, township hospitals, rural emergency systems, county-level health oversight agencies, general practitioner clinical training base, children's health care system, major disease prevention and control system, etc., greatly improving the medical and health service conditions of impoverished areas. Third, gradually improve the new rural cooperative medical system. Increase per capita government subsidies, made steady progress in pilot projects of medical security for major diseases, and rescued 4,659 children with leukemia, 18,265 children with congenital heart disease and 213,500 patients suffering six major diseases such as breast cancer and end-stage renal disease in poverty-stricken areas as well as 78,900 patients in 12 new pilot areas, effectively easing the medical service burden on the masses of impoverished regions. Fourth, further improved the health of women and children. Purchased medical equipment for maternal and child health institutions in poor areas, implemented the projects of hospital delivery subsidy for rural women, breast and cervical cancer screening, the addition of folic acid to prevent neural tube defects, etc., directly benefiting 5,664,600 rural pregnant women in poor areas, 2,432,100 rural women of the right age and 6,304,600 rural women and significantly reducing the hospital delivery rate, mortality rate, neonatal tetanus morbidity and mortality in poor areas. Fifth, improved the public health service capacity and level. Supported the projects of prevention and treatment of AIDS and tuberculosis, the immunization programs, the prevention and treatment of iodine deficiency, endemic fluorosis, Kashin-Beck disease and other endemic disease prevention projects, effectively curbing the spread of major diseases in poor areas; established national health emergency team for emergency medical relief and prevention of infectious diseases in poor areas to improve on-site health emergency disposal capacity in poor areas; supported the implementation of food security, water sanitation supervision and testing and the prevention and control of occupational diseases to significantly improve the health monitoring capabilities and level of poverty-stricken areas; organized the implementation of the "Sight Restoration Project for One Million Poor Cataract Patients" and conducted conduct sight restoration surgery on 164,600 cataract patients. Sixth, continued to strengthen the training of health care personnel. Sent 26 cadres to work in poor areas and accepted four cadres of impoverished regions to serve in the relevant organs of the Ministry of Health; organized trainings of backbone doctors of county hospitals, health personnel training for "West China Panorama", free training of medical students for rural areas and job-transfer training of general practitioners, striving to enhance the service capacity and level of health care and technical personnel in impoverished regions. Seventh, continued to provide counterpart support for poverty reduction, implemented the project for ten thousand doctors to support rural health services in poor areas and for medical agencies of or above second level to provide counterpart support for township hospital projects, sent a total of 4775 doctors to support the poverty reduction in 955 key counties for national poverty alleviation and development, inland border counties, autonomous counties, etc., and sent 10,932 people to provide counterpart support for township hospitals.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】 In 2012, the Ministry of Health continued its fixed-point poverty alleviation in Heishui County and Rangtang County of Aba Prefecture in Sichuan Province, and went on providing counterpart support for Zaduo County of Yushu Prefecture in Qinghai Province. First, continued to increase policy support for the twinned poor counties jointly with the Provincial Department of Health, issued the most preferential policy, implemented the highest subsidy standard and gave priority to the poor county in allocation of projects to effectively boost the sound and rapid development of health service industry in the poor counties. Second, actively raised anti-poverty funds, chose health poverty alleviation projects in line with the actual needs of the local areas, purchased some portable medical equipment and supported health personnel training, striving to improve the service capacity and level of primary medical and health organizations. Third, according to the relevant requirements of LGOP, actively adjusted the counties for fixed-point poverty alleviation of the Ministry of Health; carefully summarized the results of fixed-point poverty alleviation since 1994 and the experience in the field of poverty reduction and made deployments for a new round of fixed-point poverty alleviation. Fourth, strengthened communication and cooperation with the relevant provincial health departments and actively coordinated sending cadres to solve the prominent problems in economic and social development of the poor counties.
(Hou Wei, Ministry of Health)
Poverty Alleviation of People’s Bank of China
【Poverty alleviation subsidized loans】 Targeting as the contiguous poor areas, the People’s Bank of China continued to improve the poverty alleviation subsidized loan management system and increased investment of discount loans for poverty reduction. Through the reform and improvement of the credit poverty alleviation management system and operation mechanism, the bank decentralized poverty alleviation loans and interest subsidy funds management authority, encouraged banking institutions to actively issue poverty-relief funds, further mobilized the enthusiasm of financial institutions and effectively improved the operating efficiency and anti-poverty effect of poverty alleviation funds. The successful reform of the poverty alleviation loans management system strongly supported the traffic, medical, cultural and education infrastructure construction and poverty reduction in rural poor areas, especially the contiguous poor areas. According to preliminary statistics of the People's Bank of China, the balance of the discount loans for poverty alleviation in contiguous impoverished areas with particular difficulties was 27.299 billion yuan, including 14.817 billion yuan issued in 2012, of which 22.631 billion yuan was from the central government, with 11.741 billion yuan issued in 2012.
We cooperated with China Disabled Persons' Federation and LGOP to improve the relevant policies on pro-poor loans for rehabilitation, creating a good financial environment for people with disabilities to launch businesses. In 2012, the People’s Bank of China and China Disabled Persons' Federation carried out field research in Tongliao City of Inner Mongolia and Shijiazhuang City of Hebei Province, carefully analyzed the new situation and new problems since the rehabilitation poverty alleviation loans management system reform and explored measures to improve the rehabilitation poverty alleviation loan policy. We strengthened monetary and credit policy guidance, intensified policy support and consolidated the foundation for poverty alleviation system for the disabled. Jointly with local financial departments, departments of human resources and social security and departments supporting the disabled, the bank’s branches in Liaoning, Fujian, Shandong, Qinghai and Tibet issued documents to include people with disabilities into the coverage of microfinance policy and allowed people with disabilities to apply for small loans and discount loans according to the relevant procedures, further broadening the financing channels for the disabled.
【Preferential pro-poor policies】 Actively implemented preferential interest rate loans for trade and production of special ethnic goods to support economic development in minority areas. In 2012, the People's Bank of China actively implemented the preferential interest rate loans for trade and production of special ethnic goods and continued to implement the preferential loan policy for trade and production of special ethnic goods by issuing an interest rate 2.88 percentage below the one-year loan interest rate. In addition, the People's Bank of China issued the "Notice of the People's Bank of China Concerning Relevant Issues on Loan Interest Rate for the Trade and Production of Special Ethic Goods" (Yin Fa [2012] No. 223) and expanded the coverage of financial agencies to implement the preferential policy, including Bank of Communications and China Merchants Bank into the coverage.
Continued to support the leapfrog development of Xinjiang. In 2012, jointly with China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) and China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC), the People's Bank of China issued the "Opinions on Financial Support for the Construction of Kashgar and Khorgos Economic Development Zones" (Yin Fa [2012] No. 239) and provided preferential policies for Kashgar and Khorgos Economic Development Zones in six fields, including broadening financing channels, promoting trade and investment facilitation, accelerating financial reform and innovation, establishing long-term mechanisms for financial services and supervision, aiming to promote the leapfrog development of Xinjiang by financial support. After that, jointly with Xinjiang Branches of China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) and China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC), Urumqi Central Branch of People's Bank of China issued the "Rules for the Implementation of ‘Opinions on Financial Support for the Construction of Kashgar and Khorgos Economic Development Zones’" (Wu Yin Fa [2012] No. 241) and further implemented the relevant policy to boost the coordinated and rapid development of economy and finance in the development zones.
Implemented preferential financial policies in Tibet. After the establishment of Bank of Tibet, taking into account its long service radius and high operating costs as well as the special circumstances of economic development in Tibet, the People's Bank of China determined to implement preferential monetary policy on Bank of Tibet during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period. As for the deposit reserve ratio policy, Bank of Tibet enjoys the same reserve ratio with rural credit cooperatives, four percentage points below that of city commercial banks. In terms of dynamic adjustment of differentiated reserve ratio, based on the macro-prudential requirements, the People's Bank of China set reasonable parameters to meet the credit needs of the Bank of Tibet and increased support for "three rural issues" and the development of small and micro-enterprises.
【Employment and entrepreneurship of key groups】In 2012, the People's Bank of China held the national work conference on small secured loans for women jointly with the All-China Women's Federation, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, summarized the work experience and analyzed the difficulties and problems. It guided and urged the branches to earnestly implement the small secured loan policy for women, gradually establish and improve the incentive, restraint and risk spreading mechanisms based on various policy resources, strengthen policy guidance and improve the relevant systems and to continuously boost the sound development of small secured loan business for rural women. As of the end of December 2012, a total of 129.297 billion yuan of small secured discount loans was issued to 2.6844 million women, including 75.606 billion yuan issued to 1.4068 million women in 2012.
Actively provide financial services for expanding employment by entrepreneurship of key groups like university graduates and university student “village cadres”. To conscientiously implement the requirements of the “Notice of the State Council on Further Promoting the Employment of University Graduates” (Guo Fa [2011] No. 16) and the “Opinions on further Strengthening College Student Village Cadres’ Work” (Zu Tong Zi [2012] No. 36), we encouraged and guided financial institutions to provide financial support for college graduates’ employment and entrepreneurship and the work of college student “village cadres” to enrich the people by entrepreneurship, further gave play to the positive role of small secured loans, and issued central discount fund of 100,000 yuan for eligible university graduates to apply for small secured loans. At the same time, we continued to provide financial support for the monitoring of college student village cadres’ activities to enrich the people to understand the lasted change and progress per quarter; encouraged and guided financial institutions to make innovations to financial products and service mode and increase credit support for the entrepreneurship of university graduate “village cadres” to enrich people. As of the end of 2012, according to the statistics of the People's Bank of China, there were a total of 213,500 university student village cadres in China, and the averagely loan balance of the university student village cadres who had applied for loans was 102,800 yuan. The financial institutions of 25 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) issued loans to 4531 university student village cadres and the loan balance was 466 million yuan, up 19.85%.
Promote financial products and services innovation to effectively meet the financial service needs of migrant workers. We guided relevant financial institutions to actively make innovations to the agriculture-benefiting credit products related to migrant workers and the credit mode, and launched new products such as "order pledge agricultural loans", "fishing vessel mortgages", "land (waters) contract management right mortgages" and "forest right mortgage loan" to comprehensively promote the extension of agriculture-benefiting innovative products, effectively cracking the hard nut for farmers to obtain secured loans. Meanwhile, we strengthened the linkage and cooperation with government departments, actively explored ways for the small loans policy to support migrant workers to start their own businesses, made innovations to the working methods for rural labor transfer in balancing urban and rural development, and supported migrant workers to launch their own businesses. As of the end of 2011, the balance of small secured loans was 71.062 billion yuam, up 62.58%; a total of 852886 loans of 54.263 billion yuan were issued; the balance of small secured loans for labor-intensive enterprises was 7.757 billion yuan, up 51.03%; and a total of 3670 loans of 6.347 billion yuan were issued.
【Financial services for rural areas】 To meet the essential requirements of the financial services entities and give play to the active role of the macroeconomic monetary and credit policy in mode transformation and structure adjustment, the bank increased financial support for rural poor areas. It gave full play to the positive incentive role of the deposit reserve ratio policy and implemented lower deposit reserve ratio for rural financial institutions. At present, the rural cooperative banks and rural credit cooperatives implement the deposit reserve ratio 5.5 and 6 percentage points above that of large commercial banks respectively; this ratio for the legal financial institutions in counties with increased deposits used to support lending for local residents is one percentage lower than that of the same kind of agencies, significantly enhancing the financial strength of the financial agencies in rural impoverished regions. Giving full play to the leading role of the mechanism for dynamic adjustment of differential deposit reserve, the bank increased credit support for poor areas. To accelerate the development and improve people’s livelihood in impoverished regions, while strengthening the control of total credit loans, by setting reasonable formula parameters for dynamic adjustment of differentiated reserve, the bank supported financial institutions in poor areas to increase credit loans rationally and increase financial support for local micro and small enterprises, “three rural issues”, employment and poverty alleviation, actively gave play to the role of guiding capital flow and promoting the adjustment of credit structure of agriculture-supporting reloans and, through increasing agriculture-supporting reloans for western areas, especially poverty-stricken areas, enhanced the financial strength of financial institutions in poor rural areas. In 2012, the bank issued a total of 33.1 billion yuan of reloans to support farmers in the western impoverished regions, accounting for 49% of the total. As of the end of 2012, the domestic rediscount loans amounted to 145.5 billion yuan and the balance was 76 billion yuan. 32% of the rediscount loans were issued to support agriculture, fully playing the role of guiding credit to the “three rural issues”. As of the end of 2012, the balance of agriculture-supporting loans of financial agencies (in foreign currency and RMB) was 17.6 trillion yuan, accounting for 26.2% of the total.
Actively provided featured payment and settlement services, expanded the payment and settlement network, and promoted non-cash payment instruments to effectively improve the environment for rural payment. To provide relevant services directly for rural households to facilitate farmers, the bank vigorously guided rural residents to open up personal bank accounts, actively supported rural credit cooperatives and village and township banks to merge into the modern payment system so as to gradually expand and extend the coverage of payment and settlement network in rural areas. Organized featured bankcard services for migrant workers and teller service for small amounts of deposits of farmers and provided basic financial services for rural residents in the towns without any financial institution to fundamentally enhance the feasibility of financial services in rural areas. Guided banking institutions to issue bank cards for farmers, promoted banking institutions to carry out non-cash payment for agricultural products through online banking and bank transfer telephone to simplify the cash flow links, and launched pilot projects of payment, refund and small-sum transfer by mobile phone in rural areas. In rural areas, as of the end of 2012, bank settlement accounts had been opened for 11.577 million units and 2.36 billion people, 1.353 billion bank cards were issued and 2.5763 million telephones sets were provided for account transfer; featured bank card withdrawals business service of 47.9 billion yuan was provided for migrant workers for 5785 times; the number of bank service offices in rural areas exceeded 112,800, including 72,700 interbank payment systems of the People's Bank of China, covering 64.5% of the rural areas.
Vigorously accelerated the construction of rural credit system in poor areas. In 2012, supported by local governments and the relevant departments, the People's Bank of China actively promoted the construction of rural credit system and, targeting at credit building for rural households, farmers’ cooperatives and other rural economic entities, integrated the credit records through many channels, promoted the creation of “creditable households”, “creditable villages” and “creditable towns” to discover and increase the credit value of rural households and farmers’ cooperatives, guided financial agencies to increase credit investment in “three rural issues” and improved the financial services for “three rural issues” and supported farmers’ financing and business launching while enhancing their consciousness of credit and improving the credit environment. As of the end of 2012, the bank had established credit files for a total of 148 million farmers, assessed the credit of 97 million rural households, provided credit support for nearly 85 million rural households and the loan balance was 1.76 trillion yuan.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】In 2012, under the correct leadership of the party committee of the People's Bank, with strong support from the leaders of Yingtai District and Yijun County in Tongchuan City of Shaanxi Province and local poverty alleviation offices, in accordance with the principle for national poverty alleviation, giving priority to intellectual poverty reduction, strengthening the positioning of “blood-making” poverty alleviation, aiming to improve local production and living conditions and increase the income of the poor, the People's Bank of China focused on project support, highlighted skills trainings, intensified policy publicity, further explored methods for poverty reduction, sent condolence to the poor, constantly increased efforts on poverty alleviation and successfully completed the task of fixed-point poverty alleviation. In 2012, the bank invested 1.4 million yuan for poverty alleviation, of which: 900,000 yuan was invested in the construction of 8 projects; 100,000 yuan was put in to support pilot anti-poverty projects, 50,000 yuan was issued for the practical skills training in rural areas; 40,000 yuan was issued to subsidize poor college students, 10,000 yuan was invested for rural financial education and 300,000 yuan was condolence payment.
(People’s Bank of China)
Poverty Alleviation of State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council
【Overview】 In 2012, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (hereinafter referred to as SASAC) increased efforts for poverty reduction and organized and guided central enterprises to actively participate in poverty alleviation and development. In 2012, the SASAC established the leading group and office for coordinating the anti-poverty work in Xinjiang and Tibet, successively held the forum for central enterprises to learn and implement the spirit of the central work conference on poverty alleviation and development, the forum for central enterprises to support Tibet and the forum for central enterprises to learn and implement the spirit of the third national work conference on counterpart support for Xinjiang, and mobilized central enterprises to further support Xinjiang by industrial development and do a good job of counterpart support for Xinjiang and Qinghai and fixed-point poverty alleviation as well. In 2012, jointly with LGOP, the SASAC adjusted the poor counties for a new round of pairing-off poverty alleviation by central enterprises. On November 8, 2012, LGOP, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Central United Front Work Department, the Work Committee for Offices Directly Under the CPC Central Committee, the Work Committee of Central Government Departments, the Ministry of Education and the SASAC jointly issued the "Circular on Further Promoting the Fixed-point Poverty Alleviation by Central and State Organs and the Relevant Units" (Guo Kai Ban Fa [2012] No. 78). Driven by the SASAC, the central enterprises fully participated in the poverty alleviation and development work, assumed more anti-poverty tasks, increased efforts for poverty alleviation and development, significantly increased financial inputs for poverty reduction and made new achievements.
Anti-poverty work done by central enterprises in 2012: First, fixed-point poverty alleviation. In 2012, the central enterprises invested a total of one billion yuan of relief funds for fixed-point poverty alleviation, implemented 432 fixed-point poverty alleviation and development projects, sent 109 poverty-relief cadres, organized 169 trainings for 11,366 technical persons, established 46 schools and 12 hospitals (clinics) and subsidized 3,244 poor students. Second, counterpart support for Qinghai Province. Since 2011, 13 central enterprises have undertaken the task of counterpart support for 13 counties (districts and administration committees) in the Tibetan area of Qinghai Province, namely China Petroleum, Sinopec, State Grid Corporation of China, China Huaneng, China Datang, China Huadian Corporation, China Guodian, China Power Investment Corporation, Shenhua Group, China Mobile, China Aluminum Corp, Sinochem and China Minmetals. As of the end of 2012, the 13 central enterprises had issued a total of 173 million yuan of relief funds to Qinghai, sent 18 cadres to support the poverty reduction in Qinghai Province, determined and implemented 33 aid projects and successfully completed the construction of some projects. China State Construction Engineering Corporation Limited, China Railway Group, China Railway Construction Corporation Limited and Power Construction Corporation of China implemented 340 post-disaster restoration and reconstruction projects in Yushu, accounting for 27% of the total, invested 12.863 billion yuan by the end of 2012, completed the construction of 288 projects, comprehensively achieved the goal of basically completing the three-year reconstruction task put forward by the State Council Coordination Group for Post-disaster Reconstruction in Yushu and achieved a great victory in the decisive phase. Third, supported the economic and social development in poor areas in various forms. In addition to fixed-point poverty alleviation and counterpart support, in the fields of electricity, telecommunications, oil and gas, grain and cotton, salt, transport, infrastructure and other areas related to national economy and the people’s livelihood, central enterprises have long played an important in protection and services and vigorously boosted the economic and social development in impoverished regions through industrial development, creating jobs and joint construction by enterprises and local governments, etc.
【Counterpart support mechanism for poverty reduction in Xinjiang and Tibet】 In February 2012, the SASAC issued the "Circular on the Establishment of SASAC Coordination Group for Counterpart Support for Poverty Alleviation in Xinjiang and Tibet" (Guo Zi Ting Fa Qun Gong [2012] No. 8) and established the SASAC Coordination Group and Office for Counterpart Support for Poverty Alleviation in Xinjiang and Tibet to be responsible for coordinating the anti-poverty work by SASAC and central enterprises in Xinjiang and Tibet. SASAC Deputy Director and Member of CPC Committee Jiang Zhigang acts as the head of the Coordination Group. The General Office of SASAC, the Planning Bureau and enterprise leaders are responsible for the administration of No.1 Bureau, enterprises leaders take charge of No.2 Bureau and the Mass Work Bureau is a member unit of the Coordination Group, where the Coordination Group Office is located.
【Pairing-off poverty alleviation by central enterprises】 In 2012, jointly with LGOP, the SASAC adjusted the poor counties for a new round of pairing-off poverty alleviation by central enterprises. On November 8, 2012, LGOP, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Central United Front Work Department, the Work Committee for Offices Directly Under the CPC Central Committee, the Work Committee of Central Government Departments, the Ministry of Education and the SASAC jointly issued the "Circular on Further Promoting the Fixed-point Poverty Alleviation by Central and State Organs and the Relevant Units" (Guo Kai Ban Fa [2012] No. 78). The central enterprises fully participated in the fixed-point poverty alleviation and 116 central enterprises all got involved in the fixed-point poverty alleviation and were designated to provide counterpart support for at least one poor county. According to the deployments, central enterprises were twinned with 239 poor counties for poverty reduction and SASAC was twinned with one poor county, and a total of 240 impoverished counties were covered, accounting for 40.5% of the 592 poor counties nationwide, with an increase of 51 compared to the figure at the end of the previous round of poverty alleviation and development. This system’s counterpart support covers the largest number of poor counties. Petro China provided counterpart support for ten poor counties, Aviation Industry Corporation of China, Sinopec, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), China Mobile and China Communications Construction Group Ltd. each provided counterpart support for five poor counties, and the counterpart support of 48 central enterprises covered a larger number of poor counties this year.
【Work conference on poverty alleviation】In January, SASAC organized in Beijing the forum for central enterprises to learn and implement the spirit of the central work conference on poverty alleviation and development, learned and implemented the spirit of the central work conference on poverty alleviation and development and the national work conference on fixed-point poverty alleviation, summed up and exchanged main achievements and experience of central enterprises in poverty alleviation and development, and made deployments for the anti-poverty work of central enterprises in the new stage. SASAC Deputy Director and Member of Party Committee Jiang Zhigang and Deputy Director of Department of International Cooperation and Social Poverty Alleviation of LGOP Liu Shuwen attended the event and delivered a speech respectively. In his speech, Comrade Jiang Zhigang fully affirmed the poverty alleviation work done by central enterprises during the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, profoundly expounded the significance of central enterprises’ participation in poverty alleviation and development and put forward specific demands for the anti-poverty work of central enterprises in the new stage. In his speech, Comrade Liu Shuwen fully affirmed the remarkable achievements made by SASAC and the central enterprises in poverty alleviation and development and the important role of the central enterprises in national poverty alleviation and development work, in the hope that the central enterprises will actively devote into the cause of poverty alleviation and development and combine their own development with the development of poor areas to achieve complement each other’s advantages for mutual benefit and common development. Representatives of ten central enterprises respectively delivered a speech, including China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), China Petroleum, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), State Grid Corporation of China, China Huaneng, China Mobile, China Aluminum Corp, COSCO, China Minmetals and China Railway Construction Corporation. A total of 90 people attended the event, including the principals and department heads of 32 central enterprises in Beijing responsible for poverty alleviation and development work and the relevant comrades of the departments and bureaus of SASAC.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】In the new round of poverty alleviation and development, SASAC conscientiously implemented the central spirit, actively coordinated the central enterprises to increase tasks of fixed-point poverty alleviation and was twinned with Pingxiang County of Hebei Province itself for poverty alleviation. SASAC set up the Coordination Group for anti-poverty work by relevant authorities. SASAC Deputy Director and Member of CPC Committee Jiang Zhigang acts as the head of the Coordination Group. Du Yuanquan, Member of SASAC CPC Committee, Deputy Secretary-General of SASAC and Party Secretary of the Administration Bureau acts as the deputy head. The General Office of SASAC, the Public Work Bureau, Personnel Bureau, Authorities Services Management Bureau, the Commission (Supervision Bureau) for Discipline Inspection and the trade unions of the authorities directly under SASAC were the member units. The Coordination Group Office was set up in the Authorities Service Management Bureau. The Coordination Group contacted the relevant leaders and departments of Pingxiang County and formulated the "Work Plan for SASAC Authorities to Support Pingxiang County of Hebei Province in 2013".
(Zhang Xiaosong, SASAC Coordination Group Office of Counterpart Support for Poverty Alleviation in Xinjiang and Tibet)
Poverty Alleviation of State Administration of Radio, Film and Television
【Overview】 In 2012, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (Editor's note: After the State Council institutional reform, the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television was established. This article mainly describes the anti-poverty work done by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, hereinafter referred to as "SARFT") seriously implemented the deployment and requirements of the government on poverty alleviation and development. Based on the actual situation of radio and television program service, taking it as an important part of the anti-poverty work to boost the development of radio, film and TV industry in impoverished areas, SARFT constantly expanded the coverage of the radio, film and TV work and actively promoted the rural cultural construction in poor areas. First, starting with the implementation of the project of "extending radio and TV coverage to every village" and rural movie show project, SARFT improved the radio, film and TV public service system; Second, SARFT continued to study and implement various support policies and provide special support for western regions and the poor areas in the east and central China.
【Project of "extending radio and TV coverage to every village"】The impoverished regions in central and western areas are the key areas of the project of "extending radio and TV coverage to every village". There are two major construction tasks during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period: First, continue to solve the radio and TV program problem of the “blind” villages not covered by the radio and TV program in remote rural areas with poor natural conditions through providing live satellite TV programs, and address the radio and TV coverage problem of the natural villages with access to electricity with less than 20 households and the rural areas that got access to electricity recently; Second, strengthen the infrastructure construction for the wireless transmitter stations in mountainous areas to further consolidate and enhance the effectiveness and level of radio and TV programs for the rural masses covered by wireless transmitter station service. As for the coverage of the “blind villages”, as of 2012, the state had issued 1.4271 billion yuan of central financial funds for the construction of “blind villages”, organized two broadcast satellite receiving equipment biddings for the procurement of 6.75 million sets of equipment and completed the construction of 282,000 “blind villages” with access to electricity and less than 20 rural households. As for the infrastructure construction for radio transmitter stations in mountain areas, in 2012, jointly with the National Development and Reform Commission, the SARFT issued the “Notice on the Management of Infrastructure Construction for Radio Transmitter Stations in Mountain Areas” to further clarify the requirements for preliminary work of this project. Meanwhile, it strengthened guidance on the improvement of provincial (autonomous regional, municipal) planning and speeded up the approval work. As of the end of 2012, it coordinated the National Development and Reform Commission to approve the overall planning of eight provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities), namely Anhui, Hubei, Gansu, Guangxi, Chongqing, Shandong, Hainan and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, including the construction of 283 infrastructure projects for radio transmitter stations in mountain area with a planned investment of 425 million yuan.
【Rural movie show project】 Under the care of central leaders, support of the relevant ministries and commissions and the joint efforts of filmmakers at all levels nationwide, after the infrastructure construction during the “11th Five-Year Plan” period, rural film projects have entered into the implementation stage and became popular in rural areas, basically achieving the public service objective. As of the end of 2012, the rural areas of China had been equipped with a total of 248 rural digital cinema lines, 50,348 sets of digital projection equipment, 50,148 digital projection teams and 201 satellite programs receiving stations. 2330 films could be ordered at SARFT’s digital program management center platform, including 1041 public welfare films and 1289 commercial films. A new pattern of digital film screening for rural China was established. According to relevant statistics, the annual order of rural areas for film was 8.3 million in 2012, a total of 8.123056 films were showed for 1.75 billion rural residents, exceeding the annual task. In 2012, the central government allocated subsidy funds of 712 million yuan for the rural film screening in 22 provinces (autonomous regions) in the central and western part of China.
【DBS service for all rural households】 In 2012, we continued to implement the DBS service projects for all rural households. The central government allocated a total of 1.5 billion yuan of special subsidies for 14.2 million rural households in Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Hainan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu and Qinghai through substituting subsidies with rewards. Beijing, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Shandong, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Xinjiang raised funds for the program to cover 1.65 million rural households. More than 230,000 towns and administrative villages were identified for DBS service. Local service agencies and production enterprises set up nearly 30,000 business offices, covering 12,000 towns. The DBS service covered 8.75 million households nationwide. Ningxia, Qinghai and Gansu have basically achieved full coverage of rural households for DBS service. Inner Mongolia, Hainan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Shaanxi have completed 50% of the construction task. In addition, to expand the effective coverage of other provincial radio and television programs except satellite television, after careful study and approval of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, the SARFT allowed the pilot satellite transmission of four provincial TV programs of Ningxia and rural households covered by the program could watch these TV programs for free.
【Radio and TV propaganda for poverty alleviation】 In 2012, SARFT organized China National Radio, China Radio International, China Central Television and the radios and TV across the country to increase media coverage of poverty alleviation in forms of news and special programs and widely publicize pro-poor policies, poverty alleviation achievements, experience and stories to create a good atmosphere for the whole society to participate in poverty reduction. Voice of China of China National Radio promoted the work from four aspects: "Increasing investment in agriculture and rural areas to reduce poverty and increase farmers' income; promoting rural poverty alleviation and development to improve poor farmers’ self-accumulation and self-development ability; increasing policy support and financial investment for central and western regions to boost the development of social undertakings; and implementing employment projects for urban residents to further improve the social security system", and broadcast more than 200 reports on propaganda of poverty alleviation in the "Abstracts of News and Newspapers" , "All New" , "CNR News" , "Global Chinese Broadcasting Cooperation Network (GCBC)", "Evening News", "National News"," Live China", "CNR Night News" and "Government Affairs", including "Hu Jintao stressed: We must really solve practical problems in poor areas", "One project for one family – Hebei Province attached importance to blood-making poverty alleviation", "Pan Shanlian provided three meals a day for poor university students for twenty years" and the "Eternal Lei Feng spirit: Zhang Jinglan spared no pains to help the poor", etc. CCTV mainly reported that the party and government as well as central leaders attached high importance to poverty alleviation work and timely reported on new modes for poverty alleviation and development as well as advanced experience and achievements in anti-poverty work. China Radio International actively broadcast the situation of poverty alleviation in impoverished regions and timely announced the relevant measures on poverty alleviation and development introduced by the state departments and the opinions and suggestions of relevant experts and the masses. Meanwhile, it is concerned about news about foreign poverty alleviation and the measures for and experience in poverty reduction. According to statistics, China Radio International has broadcast more than 100 pieces of news, special programs and picture reports in 61 launguages, including the "Outline on Poverty Alleviation and Development for Rural People with Disabilities Issued by the State Council”, "China increased efforts on poverty alleviation to contribute to the global cause of poverty reduction", "Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China Hui Liangyu proposed to strengthen international cooperation in the field of poverty reduction and share development experience", "China will initially establish a basic medical and health system in poor areas in 2015", etc.
【Donation of film and TV movies】 According to existing working mechanism, in 2012, we organized film and TV movie production units to donate 2000 episodes of TV series and 36000 minutes of TV cartoons for border and minority areas like Xinjiang, Tibet and Sichuan, and recommend 80 movies (including 60 feature films and 20 popular science films) as films in minority language to be translated and provide materials for the translation and production. Under the principle of "paying equal attention to construction and development", while promoting capacity building for minority language translation, we strive for special operating fees every year to ensure the normal operation of the facilities and equipment and arranged translation work for broadcasting and TV programs in minority languages, greatly enhancing the radio and TV program translation and production capacity of minority areas and enriching the spiritual and cultural life of ethnic minority people.
(Yang Guorui, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television)
Poverty Alleviation of State Forestry Administration
【Overview】In 2012, the State Forestry Administration profoundly implemented the spirit of the central work conference on poverty alleviation and development and combined the poverty alleviation in contiguous poor areas with industrial poverty alleviation and fixed-point poverty alleviation. Based on the forest resources advantages of poor areas and combined with forestry reform and the construction of key ecological projects, in order to improve the living conditions of impoverished areas and enhance the self-development capacity of impoverished areas and poor people, the State Forestry Administration vigorously developed ecological forestry and the forestry to improve the people’s livelihood and adopted effective measures to increase support for poor areas and achieved remarkable results.
【Planning for poverty alleviation by forestry industry】In accordance with the “Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)”, combined with the regional development and poverty alleviation planning for 11 contiguous poor areas approved by the State Council and the “‘12th Five-Year Plan’ for Forestry Development”, based on the actual situation of forestry development in the 11 contiguous poor areas including Yunnan - Guangxi - Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area, we formulated the “National Planning for Poverty Alleviation by Forestry Industry (2012-2020)”. On the basis of comprehensively summarizing the experience of poverty alleviation by forestry industry over the decade since the implementation of the “Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)”, according to the actual situation of local area, the planning conducted a careful analysis of the situation and problems facing the forestry poverty alleviation under the new situation, and presented the overall objective, general layout, construction tasks, development direction and policy support measure for forestry poverty alleviation by 2020, providing industry guidance for the orderly implementation of forestry poverty alleviation in the next stage.
【Pro-poor policies for contiguous poor forestry areas】 Implement full coverage of key forestry projects. To vitalize forestry industry and enrich the people, the State Forestry Administration combined the protection of natural forest resources and returning farmland to forest with the consolidation of results of returning farmland to forest, the construction of shelterbelt system, the protection of wildlife and nature reserve areas, prevention and control of desertification, wetland protection and restoration, striving to make all the counties, cities and districts in the contiguous poor areas covered by relevant key forestry projects. Implemented preferential investment policy for forestry industry. The forestry investment in Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area achieved three “increases”: Investment during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period was more than that in the “11th Five-Year Plan” period; per county investment was above the national average, and the growth rate of investment in forestry industry was higher than that of state investment in forestry industry.
【Inter-ministerial joint conference system】The State Council appointed the State Forestry Administration and the Ministry of Water Resources as the liaison units of Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area. In cooperation with the Ministry of Water Resources, the State Forestry Administration organized relevant departments to set up the inter-ministerial joint conference system for poverty reduction in Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area and established the joint meeting system. Jointly with the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Water Resources and LGOP, the State Forestry Administration organized the kick-off meeting of the regional development and poverty alleviation in Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area and held the joint meeting on contacting the contiguous poor area.
【Returning farmland to forest】 Allocated 480 million yuan of central budget to implement forest plantation of 1.418 million mu in barren mountains and closed hillsides to facilitate afforestation of 1.248 million mu as matching projects of returning farmland to forest in key counties for poverty reduction. Jointly with the relevant departments, we issued the plan on the consolidation of the results of returning farmland to forest in 2012, issued matching funds of 5.187 billion yuan for poor areas in 2012, of which 360 million yuan was for contiguous poor areas, and assisted the Ministry of Finance to issue subsidies of 7.114 billion yuan for rural households involved in returning farmland to forest in 2012.
【Protection of natural forest resources】 Arranged central budget of 1.2 billion yuan and central special financial funds of 14 billion yuan for the protection of natural forest resources in impoverished regions.
【Shelterbelt construction】 Included poor areas into the coverage of the Sanbei, coastal, Yangtze River Basin, Pearl River Basin and other protection forest and Taihang Mountain Afforestation Project; Allocated 1.43 billion yuan for Taihang Mountain Afforestation Project for forest planting of 380,000 mu, and issued 2.26 billion yuan for protection forests along the Yangtze River and Pearl River Basin for forest planting of 7.95 million mu.
【Comprehensive redintegration of rocky desertification】 Allocated 1.8 billion yuan (6 million yuan per county) of infrastructure funds within central budget, including 324 million yuan of special funds for 54 counties of Wuling Mountain Area, 150 million yuan of special funds for 25 counties of Wumeng Mountain Area, 480 million yuan of special funds for 80 counties in Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area, 60 million yuan for 10 counties in Qinba Mountain Area, 54 million yuan for 9 counties in border areas of Western Yunnan and 6 million yuan for one county of Luoxiao Mountain Area.
【Desertification control】 22 counties of Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia in Yanshan – Taihang Mountain Area were covered by the project of control of sources of sandstorms from Beijing and Tianjin and 199.31 million yuan was allocated for the forestry construction to support this project. Since 2003, the State Forestry Administration approved the construction of many demonstration zones for desertification prevention and control in various kinds of desertificated land, including 35 in poor areas. In 2012, it allocated 11.2 million yuan of central forestry funds.
【Wetland protection and restoration】 Increase investment in wetland protection and restoration projects in poor areas, allocated 7 million yuan for the investigation of wetland resources in Shanxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan Province; allocated 4.04 million yuan for the restoration of Hongyuan Riganqiao Wetland Nature Reserve in the Tibetan area; allocated 32 million yuan for propaganda, patrol and restoration of 12 national wetland parks and wetland nature reserves including Eryuan West Lake Park of Yunnan, etc., and confirmed the important national wetland of Horqin at the southern foot of Daxing’anling.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation fund projects】 Combined with the implementation of key forestry projects, we actively coordinated the relevant departments to continue to increase investment in the protection of natural forest resources, returning farmland to forest, rocky desertification control, the shelterbelt construction in the Yangtze River Delta, nature reserve construction and wetland protection in 19 poor counties designated for its fixed-point poverty alleviation. According to statistics, in 2012, the State Forestry Administration allocated 650 million yuan of forestry construction funds for the 19 poor counties in Jiuwan Mountain Area, up nearly 50% over 2011, effectively boosting the ecological construction and forestry development in the poor areas and helping local masses shake off poverty.
【Technology Training】The State Forestry Administration entrusted International Centre for Bamboo and Rattan to hold five forestry expertise training courses, employed well-known experts on bamboo and camellia to give lectures on bamboo processing, utilization and innovation technologies, high-yield cultivation techniques of bamboo resources, bamboo pest control techniques, bamboo and bamboo products technique, camellia seed breeding, high-yielding cultivation and low-yielding forest transformation techniques, camellia nutritional quality and processing quality control technology, etc., training 430 people for forestry departments’ production lines, including management personnel, technicians, farmers engaged in planting and forestry, etc.
【Poverty alleviation by sending cadres】 Developed the plan for the dispatch of poverty alleviation cadres, sent 15 cadres to work in Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area and held the matchmaking meeting in Guangxi. In 2012, the State Forestry Administration sent the largest number of poverty alleviation cadres to the poor areas, making a positive contribution to the improvement of the ecological environment of Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area and the coordinated economic and social development.
【Newspapers delivery to the countryside】 According to the fixed-point poverty alleviation plan in forestry industry, in 2012, the State Forestry Administration continued to carry out the activity of delivering newspaper to the countryside. It entrusted China Green Times Press to issue 500 copies of China Green Times to 380 township forestry stations in 19 impoverished counties in Jiuwan Mountains of Guizhou and Guangxi so that the people could learn the state’s forestry policies and various information for shaking off poverty in forestry industry in time.
【Pro-poor measures】 In accordance with the spirit of the central work conference on poverty alleviation and development and the requirements of the “Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)”, to do a good job of poverty reduction, in 2012, the leaders of the State Forestry Administration and relevant departments and bureaus carried out field research in the poor counties of Guangxi and Guizhou, involving 220 people, of which four were bureau leaders. Through field research, we understood the economic and social development situation in poor areas and addressed practical difficulties for forestry development. Finding out the problems, we actively adopted effective measures to promote the anti-poverty work.
1．Increased support for the ecological protection and construction of the poverty-stricken areas. According to the deployments made by the party committee meeting of the State Forestry Administration, we issued the "Circular of the State Forestry Administration on the Implementation of the Spirit of the Central Work Conference on Poverty Alleviation and Development and Further Promoting Poverty Alleviation in Forestry Industry" and increase support for poor areas. Combined with the protection of natural forest resources, returning farmland to forest, the shelterbelt construction in the Yangtze River and the Pearl River Delta, rocky desertification control, wildlife protection, nature reserve construction and wetland protection, the State Forestry Administration strove to make the key ecological forestry projects cover all the counties in the 14 contiguous poor areas. Combined with the implementation of the relevant national planning, it invested more in ecological forestry construction in contiguous poor areas during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period to curb the trend of local ecological deterioration, reduce the natural disaster hazards, improve the production and living conditions of poor areas, broaden the survival and development space and provide a strong support for the sustainable development of regional economy and the construction of a moderately well-off society.
2．Strengthened the guidance and support for the development of forestry industry in poverty-stricken areas. Based on the economic development situation, industrial advantage and the characteristics of concentrated with mountains and forests of poor counties, taking the development of emerging green industry and the optimization of forestry structure as an important means to increase the income of the masses in poor mountain areas and help them shake off poverty, while strengthening ecological construction and protection, it actively guided and supported the development of emerging industries with local characteristics such as the economic forest, fast growing timber, industrial raw material forest, bamboo products, forest food, forest tourism and forest herbs in the poor areas to broaden income sources of poor households and boost the economic growth in rural areas. It also helped impoverished regions to design and develop green industries and related infrastructure construction projects with good prospect, little investment, fast effect and a large number of beneficiaries that play a leading role in helping the masses shake off poverty. Through project construction, it effectively enhanced the self-development capacity of the poor for poverty reduction as soon as possible.
3．Deepened forestry reform and made innovations to the institutional mechanism for forestry poverty alleviation, and activated the inherent development vitality and power of poor areas and poor households. Through actively providing financial, project, information and technical support for poor areas, we explored the establishment of the mechanisms and models that can effectively be connected with the market and can constantly expand reproduction; continued to deepen the reform of collective forest right, formulated and improved the policies, further released the huge potential of forest and woodland resources to help farmers embark on the path of poverty reduction; vigorously developed the non-public forestry, encouraged forestry enterprises to attract private capital for forestry poverty alleviation and development through market operations such as launching joint stock companies, contracting, renting, merging and acquiring businesses, and mobilized all circles of society to get involved in forestry poverty alleviation to bring new vitality to the poverty alleviation work with new mechanisms.
(Division of Planning and Capital Management, State Forestry Administration)
Poverty Alleviation of China National Tourism Administration
【Overview】 In 2012, China National Tourism Administration seriously implemented the spirit of the central work conference on poverty alleviation and development and the “Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)” and took it as an important part of the development of tourism industry to improve the development environment and conditions for tourism industry in poor areas. While conducting the fixed-point poverty alleviation and poverty reduction in tourism in key regions and contiguous impoverished areas with particular difficulties, China National Tourism Administration actively supported the development of tourism industry in central and western poor areas and the Tibetan areas of Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan and Gansu through financial aid, planning preparation, product enhancement, demonstration and guidance, education and training, and achieved positive results in the poverty reduction by tourism.
In July 2012, China National Tourism Administration signed a cooperation framework agreement with LGOP to establish an effective mechanism to jointly promote poverty alleviation by tourism industry.
In 2012, China National Tourism Administration allocated 150 million yuan of tourism development funds for poor areas, accounting for 26% of the total, which was mainly used to support the construction and improvement of tourism facilities and public facilities and support the implementation of the tourism projects to help people shake off poverty.
【Demonstration guide】 To further guide the development of experimental zone for poverty alleviation by tourism industry, in 2012, based on Liupan Mountain Experimental Zone in Ningxia, China National Tourism Administration and LGOP jointly approved to increase Ganzhou City and Ji’an City of Jiangxi Province as well as Fuping County of Hebei as the “National Experimental Zone for Poverty Alleviation by Tourism Industry”.
【Education and training】 In 2012, China National Tourism Administration provided financial support for the tour guide training (about 2000 people) and rural tourism training (40 people) in Tibet, and held six seminars on the development of tourism economy or training course for directors of tourism authorities in the central and western regions, Xinjiang, Tibet, the Tibetan areas of four provinces, Yunnan and Wuling Mountain Area, involving more than 450 directors and administration leaders of tourism authorities in the central and western regions, Tibetan areas and contiguous poor areas. Meanwhile, China National Tourism Administration held trainings of “door-to-door education” for the seminars on the development of tourism economy in Guizhou, Jiangxi and Chongqing, sent more than 30 experts to give lectures on the event, and more than 580 people attended the event, including administration leaders of tourism industry and principals of key tourism enterprises in relevant regions. In addition, we held the training course for tour guides in Xinjiang and more than 150 people received training.
【Poverty alleviation in key regions】 In 2012, in accordance with the “Work Priorities of 2012 for United Front Participation and Supporting the Construction of Bijie Experimental Zone”, China National Tourism Administration continued to increase support for the construction of tourism infrastructure and public service facilities in Bijie Experimental Zone of Guizhou, and used tourism development fund to support the tourism facility building in Baili Azalea National Forest Park, a key scenic spot in Bijie with a total of 2.9 million yuan of subsidies. In March 2012, China National Tourism Administration helped Bijie to hold a tourism promotion event in Beijing, provided it with meeting venue for free and invited news media and businesses to participate in the marketing campaign, improving the anti-poverty effect.
【Poverty alleviation in contiguous impoverished areas with particular difficulties】 In 2012, taking the tourism-based poverty alleviation in contiguous poor areas as a work priority of the national tourism planning, China National Tourism Administration actively guided and encouraged local tourism departments to carry out poverty reduction by tourism industry in contiguous poor areas based on the level and actual situation of local economic and social development. First, started planning and research for tourism development in contiguous poor areas. According to the progress in the implementation of national poverty alleviation strategy, we coordinated and started the preparation of tourism planning for Wumeng Mountain Area and Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area, and organized the research of tourism development in Wuling Mountain Area, Taihang Mountain Area, Dabie Mountain Area and Qinling Region. Second, participated in special research of tourism development in poor areas. We participated in the field research on tourism industry in the rocky desertification area of Guangxi organized by CPPCC National Committee and completed the writing of research report on tourism development in poor areas of Guangxi. Third, supported local governments to establish tourism cooperation and coordination mechanism for contiguous poor areas; explore the establishment of regional tourism cooperation mechanism jointly with relevant provinces in Wuling Mountain Area and prepared for the establishment of Wuling Mountain Area Tourism Cooperation Alliance.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】In early 2012, some comrades from relevant departments and bureaus of China National Tourism Administration sent condolence to Jiangkou County of Guizhou Province – its twinned poor county for poverty reduction, and carried out field research there. In 2012, we allocated a total of 3 million yuan of tourism development funds to support local projects, mainly for the comprehensive management of ecological environment around Fanjing Mountain. In 2012, China National Tourism Administration issued two million yuan of tourism development funds to support local projects in Bama County of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and issued one million yuan for Arxan City of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
(Luo Xiao, China National Tourism Administration)
Poverty Alleviation of State Tobacco Monopoly Administration
【Overview】 In 2012, based on the actual situation, to address the most direct, most pressing and most practical interest problems of the masses, focusing on strengthening infrastructure construction, in order to increase income of the masses and help people shake off poverty and become rich, State Tobacco Monopoly Administration invested 10 million yuan in Yunxi and Zhushan County of Hubei Province for the construction of 51 projects in six categories, involving infrastructure, improvement, poverty-relief relocation, industrial development, water conservancy construction, social undertakings, technology and education, including 31 projects in Yunxi County and 20 in Zhuxi County, directly benefiting tens of thousands of people.
【Industrial poverty alleviation】 Tobacco units at all levels provided strong support for tobacco production infrastructure construction and put in a total of 35.5292 million yuan for the project, of which:
20.2523 million yuan was invested in Zhuxi County: 15.1368 million yuan was issued for the construction of 33 bakeries; 97200 yuan was issued for the procurement of 17 flue gas turbines; 4.508 million yuan was invested for land consolidation of 1288 mu and 510300 yuan was used for preliminary work.
15.2769 million yuan was invested in Yunxi County: 837100 yuan was allocated for the laying of pipelines 24.88 kilometers, 1.356 million yuan was issued for tractor road building of 10.25 kilometers, 7.4562 million yuan was invested for the construction of 191 bakeries, 124,000 yuan was used to build 62 air-drying shelters, 210,200 yuan was used to purchase 69 flue gas turbines, 1.8953 million yuan was invested to build 8 nursery greenhouses, 2.9284 million yuan was invested for land consolidation of 1063 mu and 469700 yuan was used for preliminary work.
Through investing in tobacco production infrastructure construction, we further improved the production conditions of tobacco-growing areas in poor counties and enhanced the ability to withstand natural disasters and the overall production capacity, playing an active role in increasing the income of farmers, boosting the economic and social development in tobacco-growing areas and supporting the construction of new socialist countryside.
【Adjustment of poor counties for fixed-point poverty alleviation】In 2011, the Central Government issued and implemented the "Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China's Rural Areas (2011-2020)" and held the central work conference on poverty alleviation and development to make overall deployments on anti-poverty work in the new stage. According to the spirit of the outline and the work conference and the actual situation of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration, to do a better job in fixed-point poverty alleviation, we adjusted the pairing-off relations for fixed-point poverty alleviation and changed the twinned poor counties from Yunxi County and Zhuxi County to Zhuxi County and Zhushan County.
【Pairing-off industrial poverty alleviation】 In accordance with the requirements of the "Opinions of the State Council on Further Promoting the Sound and Rapid Economic Development in Guizhou" (Guo Fa [2012] No.2), the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration determined to provide counterpart support for poverty reduction in Guizhou by industrial poverty alleviation, formulated the "Opinions of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration on Supporting the Development of Cigarette Industry and Tobacco Cultivation and the Implementation of Pairing-off Industrial Poverty Alleviation in Guizhou" and put forward the policy measures to support the development of tobacco industry in Guizhou. During the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, the tobacco industry will increase investment, strengthen technological innovation and infrastructure construction and support key brand development to promote the rapid growth of tobacco taxes and profits in Guizhou. Main initiatives include: to support cigarette brand development of China Tobacco Guizhou Industrial Co., Ltd and accelerate the development of the brand “Guiyan”; to support Guizhou Province to improve tobacco production level and accelerate the construction of modern tobacco agriculture; to support technology innovation in tobacco industry of Guizhou and constantly enhance the development ability; to support technical transformation of tobacco industry in Guizhou to enhance the comprehensive competitiveness; and to support industrial poverty alleviation and development in Guizhou Province and launch demonstration projects for new rural construction.
As for the support for demonstration projects of new rural construction in Guizhou, 200 million yuan will be invested per year. We selected two villages from each of the 57 twinned counties (cities, districts) and put in 2 million yuan or so for each village to implement infrastructure construction, featured industry development, poverty-relief relocation and social development projects, striving to improve the infrastructure and appearance of the project villages, create characteristic industries to increase farmers’ income, significantly improve the living standards of local farmers and make the project areas demonstration villages with ethnic characteristics and certain influence in local area in three to five years.
(State Tobacco Monopoly Administration)
Poverty Alleviation of National Energy Administration
【Energy project approval for poverty alleviation】 In 2012, National Energy Administration (NEA) approved thermal power projects of 3.39 million kilowatts in poor areas, which have been launched already, agreed the implementation of preparatory work for thermal power projects of 14.62 million kilowatts, actively promoted the linkage of Yushu Grid and Qinghai Grid, newly built two 330-kilovolt substations and one 330-kilovolt switching station, increased power transformation capacity of 390,000 KVA and newly built 803 kilometers of 330-kilovolt circuit.
Approved the implementation of five colliery projects with an investment of 9.408 billion yuan, namely Guojiahe Colliery in Linyou County of Shaanxi Province, Xinhua Colliery in Liuzhi Special Zone of Guizhou Province, Guanyinshan Colliery in Weixin County of Yunnan Province, Jinfeng Colliery in Yanchi County of Ningxia and Yushugou Colliery in Guyuan County of Hebei Province, increasing coal production capacity by 13.8 million tons / year.
Encouraged the diversification of investment and the flow of private capital into hydroelectric industry, focusing on promoting the small hydroelectric project construction in remote off-grid areas; approved a total installed capacity of 6,618,000 kilowatts of hydropower in contiguous poor areas with a total investment of about 55.24 billion yuan, mainly including: Jinsha River Longkaikou hydropower station in border mountain area of Heqing County, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan Province with an installed capacity of 1.8 million kilowatts and a total investment of 17.412 billion yuan; Ludila hydropower station at the junction of Yongsheng County of Lijiang and Binchuan County of Dali Prefecture in Yunnan Province with an installed capacity of 2.16 million kilowatts and a total investment of 21.695 billion yuan; Taohekou desilting tunnel and enlargement project of Liujiaxia Hydropower Station in Yongjing County of Gansu Province covered by Qinba Mountain Area with an installed capacity of 300,000 kilowatts and a total investment of 1.269 billion yuan; Mamaya Grade I Hydropower Station at the junction of Guanling County of Anshun City and Xingren County of Qiannan Prefecture in Guizhou Province covered by Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou Rocky Desertification Area with an installed capacity of 558,000 kilowatts and a total investment of 4.918 billion yuan; Fengning Pumped Storage Power Station in Fengning County of Chengde City in Hebei Province covered by Yanshan – Taihang Mountain Area with an installed capacity 1.8 million kilowatts and a total investment of 9.947 billion yuan, etc.
【Upgrading of coal industry】 Arranged 44,520,000 yuan of central budget, encouraging the investment of 256 million yuan from enterprises to support the construction of seven projects of upgrading of coal industry in the key counties for national poverty alleviation and development in Hebei, Jilin, Sichuan, Ningxia and Xinjiang.
【Safety reformation of coal mines】 Allocated central budget of 410 million yuan, encouraging the investment of 1.3 billion yuan from local and enterprises to support 87 coal mine safety reformation projects in the key counties for national poverty alleviation and development in Hebei, Shanxi, Jilin, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Shaanxi, mainly upgrading coal mines’ ventilation system, gas extraction system, dustproof, fire prevention and extinguishing and water control systems.
【Rural power grid transformation and upgrading】 Allocated central budget of 7.35 billion yuan, encouraging the investment of 24.85 billion yuan from local and enterprises to support the construction and renovation of 219 110 (66)-kilowatt transformer substations with circuits of nearly 4000 km in the western regions, 689 35-kilowatt transformer substations with circuits of 8000 km; l0- kilowatt circuits of 55,000 km, more than 50,000 distribution transformers and low-voltage lines of 110,000 km.
【Power construction in the areas without access to electricity】 The Outline of the "Twelfth Five -Year" Plan for National Economic and Social Development clearly stipulates that electricity must be provided for the entire population of the regions without access to electricity. Taking access to electricity of all households as the work priority in 2012, in accordance with the principle of combining power grid extension with independent power supply and the common development of power grid enterprises and other energy companies, the National Energy Administration implemented electricity construction in the regions without access to electricity in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Tibet and Sichuan, and arranged project entities. It allocated central budget funds of 1.4 billion yuan and encouraged the investment of 2.03 billion yuan from local governments and enterprises to support the construction and renovation of three 110 kv transformer substations with circuits of 304 km; 28 35-kilovolt transformer substations with circuits of 867 km; 10- kilovolt circuits of 7546 km, 4619 distribution transformers with low-voltage line of 9050 km. Newly built 10 small hydropower stations with an installed capacity of 6935 kilowatts, five photovoltaic power stations with an installed capacity of 1070 kilowatts, six wind power stations with an installed capacity of 300 kilowatts, 1080 household photovoltaic systems with an installed capacity of 306 kilowatts, and 20,519 wind and solar power generation systems with an installed capacity of 10796.2 kilowatts. After the project construction, it will solve the electricity problem of 438,000 people. As of the end of 2012, Yunnan Province had solved the electricity problem of all local residents without access to electricity.
【"Golden Sun" demonstration project】 In 2012, the "Golden Sun" demonstration project supported 25 power construction projects in the regions without electricity in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet and Qinghai with a total installed capacity of 135,000 kilowatts, accounting for 3% of the total. In the first half of 2012, the first batch of four "Golden Sun" demonstration projects with an installed capacity of 45,000 kilowatts were launched in the areas without access to electricity in Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Xinjiang and Tibet, accounting for 2.6% of the total, which was planned to be completed by December 31, 2012; in the second half of 2012, the second batch of 21 Independent photovoltaic power generation projects with an installed capacity of 90,000 kilowatts were launched in the remote areas of Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Xinjiang and Tibet, accounting for 3.2% of the total, which was planned to be completed by June 30, 2013.
（National Energy Administration）
Poverty Alleviation of China Banking Regulatory Commission
【Increase investment in agriculture-related fields】 In recent years, based on the new situation of international and domestic economy, China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) issued at the year-beginning the document to guide the rural financial services in the whole year. According to requirements of adjustment and optimization of the credit structure under the prudent monetary policy to guarantee investment in the "three rural issues", CBRC requested the banking financial institutions to effectively increase credit resources for agriculture-related county economy under the premise of prevention of financial risks. From 2009 to 2012, for four consecutive years, we achieved the goal of “two no less than”: The growth of agriculture-related credit loan was no less than that of the previous year and the growth rate was no lower than the average. As of the end of 2012, the balance of the agriculture-related loans issued by banking institutions was 17.6 trillion yuan, with an increase of 3 trillion yuan over the year-beginning and an increase of 284.86 billion yuan over 2011, up 20.7%, 5.6 percentage points above the average growth rate of various loans. According to the situation of the branches, rural small and medium financial institutions are still the main force in supporting agriculture with agriculture-related loan balance of 5.5 trillion yuan, accounting for 31.3% of the total, 885.16 billion yuan more than that at the year-beginning, accounting for 29.4% of the total growth. In addition, the balance of agriculture-related loans of the Agricultural Bank of China was 1.9 trillion yuan, with an increase of 250.63 billion yuan over the year-beginning. The balance of agriculture-related loans of the Agricultural Development Bank was 2.1 trillion yuan, with an increase of 346.31 billion yuan over the year-beginning. The balance of agriculture-related loans of the State Development Bank was 765.13 billion yuan, with an increase of 110.14 billion yuan over the year-beginning, and the balance of agriculture-related loans of the postal savings bank was 187.82 billion yuan, with an increase of 51.58 billion yuan over the year-beginning
【Poverty alleviation by credit loans】 To effectively put credit loans into rural entities and impoverished regions, the CBRC required all agriculture-related banking financial institutions to effectively increase support for important rural market players and industries. First, meet the credit demand of rural households for production and living first. As of the end of 2012, the balance of loans to farmers issued by banking financial institutions was 3.6 trillion yuan, with an increase of 500 billion yuan, up 15.9 percent over 2011, effectively supporting the farmers to purchase agricultural production means, build houses, purchase agricultural machinery and appliances, set up farm shops and carry out other economic activities. Second, increase credit support for small and micro enterprises. To effectively alleviate the financing problem of small and micro enterprises, the CBRC guided banking institutions to increase credit support for individual businesses, farmers' cooperatives and other small and micro enterprises through establishing small business services agencies, deepening the construction of "six mechanisms" for small enterprises, promoting credit and joint insured lending for rural small enterprises and providing financial services of farmers’ cooperatives, etc. As of the end of 2012, the balance of the small and micro-enterprise loans issued by banking institutions reached 12 trillion yuan, with an increase of 1.9 trillion yuan over the year-beginning, up 18.3 % over 2011, 3.2 percentage points above the average growth rate. Third, strengthen credit service to improve the people's livelihood. In 2012, the CBRC led banking institutions to increase support for agricultural technology based on the actual situation of the "three rural issues" and the key work for rural economic development, focusing on credit support for spring ploughing, promoting food production, guaranteeing supply of agricultural products and the construction of vegetable basket project, especially according to the requirements of No.1 Document of this year. As of the end of 2012, the balance of loans issued to agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fisheries industry by banking financial institutions reached 2.6 trillion yuan, with an increase of 279.55 billion yuan over the year-beginning, and the balance of agro-processing loans was 1.1 trillion yuan, with an increase of 172.83 billion yuan over the year-beginning. At the same time, it increased support for rural infrastructure construction and agricultural machinery purchase. As of the end of 2012, the balanced of the loans issued by banking institutions to support rural infrastructure and farmland capital construction was 2.4 trillion yuan, with an increase of 344.54 billion yuan over the year-beginning; The loan balance for circulation of agricultural materials and products including the procurement of agricultural machinery was 1.6 trillion yuan, with an increase of 356.33 billion yuan over the year-beginning; Agricultural science and technology loans also increased rapidly and the balance reached 39.81 billion yuan, with an increase of 7.67 billion yuan over the year-beginning.
【Construction of rural financial organization system】 Further promoted the reform of the management system and property rights system of rural credit cooperatives. The industrial risk management and disposal was under the responsibility of the provincial government. As of the end of 2012, the CBRC restructured 337 rural commercial banks, 147 rural cooperative banks and 1801 county (city, district) rural credit cooperative unions, and the total number of rural cooperative financial institutions and legal entities decreased from more than 35,000 before the reform to the current 2411. After its reform direction of "three rural issues-oriented, commercial operations, overall restructuring and choosing a good opportunity for listing" was clarified, the Agricultural Bank of China was successfully restructured and listed, the reform of “three rural issues” department proceeded smoothly, and the network layout for balancing urban and rural development and the construction of the service functions entered a substantive stage of operation. The Postal Savings Bank opened in 2007, the agriculture-related credit business witnessed sustainable development and the mechanism for cash flow to rural areas was gradually established. The business scope of the Agricultural Development Bank was effectively broadened and the bank’s role in policy support for agriculture was significantly enhanced. At present, the business development pattern of "One Body and Two Wings" was established: One Body: credit loans for acquisition of grain, cotton and oil; Two Wings: credit loans for agricultural industrialization, and the medium- and long-term credit loans for agriculture and rural areas.
【Development of new-type rural financial institutions】 At the end of 2006, to further enhance the degree of competition and services of financial markets in rural areas, the CBRC adjusted and relaxed the access policy for banking financial institutions in rural areas and began to cultivate township banks, rural mutual-aid societies and lending companies. Based on conscientiously summarizing the experience, in 2011, the CBRC made scientific coordination to the coverage and financial service situations of the central and western branches, further improved the relevant market access policy for new rural financial institutions, strictly implemented the policy of "east-west pairing off, urban-rural linkage, connection of developed regions and underdeveloped areas", highlighted and stressed the market positioning of targeting at “three rural issues”, insisted on the operation principle of “supporting agriculture and small farmers” to promote the cultivation of new types of rural financial institutions. As of the end of 2011, China had set up 939 new-type rural financial institutions, including 876 village banks, 14 finance companies and 49 rural mutual-aid societies. Among them, 578 were in the central and western provinces, accounting for 62%. A total of 234.7 billion yuan of loans was issued, of which 84% was used to support “three rural issues” and small businesses, including 84.8 billion yuan for rural households and 111.8 billion yuan for small businesses.
【Financial services for old revolutionary bases, minority areas, border regions and poor areas】 To conscientiously implement the requirement of "increasing support for old revolutionary bases, minority areas, border areas and impoverished areas" of the Eighteenth National Congress of the CPC, the CBRC issued the “Notice on Relevant Issues for Banking Financial Institutions to Provide Rural Financial Services for Old Revolutionary Base Areas, Minority Areas, Border Areas and Impoverished Areas”, guided banking institutions to adjust and optimize the network layout, speed up the cultivation of new rural financial institutions and, starting from the improvement of the policy financial service mechanisms, better resolve the conflict of urban-rural dual financial structure to boost the healthy development of rural finance. From 2013 onwards, banking institutions are required to make the growth rate of its annual credit investment in old revolutionary bases, minority areas, border areas and impoverished areas above the average of other regions and the average of urban areas, highlight the key points for support according to the overall strategy and layout for regional development of old revolutionary bases, minority areas, border areas and impoverished areas, strengthen financial services for old revolutionary bases, minority areas, border areas and impoverished areas through innovations, and constantly improve the financial service system. It further liberalized banking institutions access policy, encouraged all types of banking institutions to set up offices in the old revolutionary bases, minority areas, border areas and impoverished areas, supported eligible banking institutions to establish village and township banks in the above areas, relaxed the policy for proportion linkage between the village and township banks in the above regions’ counties (cities) and the developed counties (cities), promoted the rural credit cooperatives in old revolutionary bases, minority areas, border areas and impoverished areas to enhance their ability to serve counties, “three rural issues” and small and micro enterprises through reform and encouraged banking and financial institutions to expand their network to cover towns and villages. Meanwhile, it clarified a series of regulatory policies on supporting the improvement of financial services for agriculture-related businesses and small and micro enterprises.
【Implementation of “Three Major Projects”】 To promote rural small and medium financial institutions to support the scientific development of agriculture, farmers and rural areas, in 2012, based on the new situation and new demands of rural financial development, the CBRC launched three major projects, namely the "financial services for villages and communities", the "sunshine credit loans" and the "financial innovation to enrich farmers and benefit agriculture". First, promoted the diversification of the service network and means so that financial services will expand to rural areas and communities and provided for farmers; Second, through the full implementation of public credit management, it strove to improve the transparency of credit business and improve lending fairness and accessibility; Third, established a comprehensive innovation system to adapt to market changes and the needs of agriculture, farmers and rural areas and developed "tailored" financial services to satisfy customers. Through the implementation of "three major projects", it aimed at urging rural small and medium-sized financial institutions to actively adapt to the new changes of rural economic restructuring, improve their services at a higher level and to a greater extent and better play their basic role in expanding domestic demand, improve people’s livelihood, promoting economic growth and boosting development so that the majority of rural people can enjoy more transparent, more thoughtful and more convenient financial services. Currently, under the guidance of the Banking Bureau, the provincial associations and rural small and medium-sized financial institutions take people enriching and agriculture benefiting as the fundamental starting point, starting from the strategy, organization, mechanisms, products, services and channels, further clarify the key work and deeply implement the specific measures and plans of the “three major projects”, comprehensively enhancing the service quality, level and efficiency of rural medium and small-sized financial agencies.
【Financial services for remote rural areas】 Beginning in October 2009, the CBRC launched the work of basic financial services’ full coverage of the towns without financial agencies nationwide, guided and urged banking financial institutions, especially rural small and medium-sized financial agencies and postal savings banks to provide basic financial services for towns through establishing standardized network and simple business outlets, providing regular targeted services and equipping physical machines. At the end of 2010, we thoroughly addressed the shortage of basic financial services in 708 towns, achieving basic financial services’ full coverage towns nationwide. In 2011, on the basis of basic financial services’ full coverage towns nationwide, to further enhance the level of equalization of rural financial services, we addressed the institution coverage of 616 towns. As of the end of 2012, the number of towns without financial agencies in the country was reduced from 2945 to 1686, down 43%, and 24 provinces achieved financial institutions’ full coverage of towns. The coverage of rural banking network was greatly expanded and the number of business offices exceeded 100,000, including nearly 80,000 rural medium and small-sized financial agencies, and the financial services in remote rural areas had undergone a fundamental change.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】 In 2012, the CBRC leading group for fixed-point poverty alleviation adjusted measures to local conditions and carefully developed the planning. Based on the actual situation of Hezheng County of Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu Province, focusing on intelligence poverty alleviation, poverty alleviation by projects, industrial poverty alleviation and platform-based poverty reduction, according to the plan of the previous year, the CBRC completed the construction of eight fixed-point poverty alleviation projects and achieved good social and economic benefits. In 2012, the CBRC invested a total of 4.578 million yuan to the designated poor counties, of which 4.228 million yuan was issued in cash and 350,000 in kind. To summarize the fixed-point poverty alleviation work this year, we found the following characteristics: On the one hand, we increased research efforts and sent relevant persons to carry out field research in Hezheng County for many times to deeply understand people's needs and explore pro-poor measures; on the other hand, we set up scientific aid projects and, relying on our advantages and based on the actual situation of Hezheng County, completed the implementation of Hehui poor excellent high school student scholarship program, training of excellent young cadres from relevant counties and towns, agricultural practical technology and labor skills training, etc. Through these projects, we helped local poor primary and secondary students complete their education and helped the local poor with poor skills and low cultural level improve survival skills and development capacity. In addition, we also completed the village road building and the sports facility construction for some primary schools, benefiting more than 10,000 people and students, achieving good social benefits.
(Fu Zhengli, China Banking Regulatory Commission)
Poverty Alleviation of China Insurance Regulatory Commission
【Overview】In 2012, to further implement the spirit of the "Circular of the General Office of CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council on Further Promoting Fixed-point Poverty Alleviation" (Ting Zi [2010] No.2), according to the unified deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, China Insurance Regulatory Commission (hereinafter referred to as CIRC) continued its fixed-point poverty alleviation work in Chayou Middle Banner and Chayou Rear Banner of Wulanchabu City, Inner Mongolia (hereinafter referred as the “two banners”). CIRC attached great importance to the significant role of fixed-point poverty alleviation in the anti-poverty work in the new stage. In accordance with the instruction of “trying to combine poverty-relief funds with insurance business” of the leaders, giving full play to the advantage of insurance industry, CIRC used some relief funds in insurance projects and some in production infrastructure and industrial development projects and successfully completed the poverty alleviation task for 2012.
In 2012, CIRC put in relief funds of 1.3 million yuan to implement or participate in the construction of four poverty alleviation projects in the two banners; donated computer equipment worth 3.7 million yuan to support the information construction of local schools and impoverished villages, achieving good economic and social benefits.
【Poverty alleviation by insurance】To enhance the ability of the poor farmers, herdsmen and students in the two banners to resist disasters and protect the interests of poor farmers, herdsmen and students, CIRC put in a total of 400,000 yuan in the two banners for poverty alleviation by insurance.
Agricultural transformer insurance and the insurance projects for poor college and middle school students. To give full play to the disaster and loss prevention function of insurance, prevent farmers and herdsmen from falling into or returning poverty due to disasters and illness and enhance the ability of poor farmers and herdsmen to resist disasters, in 2012, CIRC continued to invest 200,000 yuan in Chayou Middle Banner for the procurement of 320 agricultural transformers for impoverished villages and insurance for 300 poor middle school and college students and to prevent serious losses caused by transformers’ damage due to disasters or being stolen and prevent rural families’ falling into or returning poverty due to students’ accidents.
Insurance projects for primary students from needy families. To make the primary students in rural pasturing areas benefit from accident insurance, in 2012, CIRC continued to invest in the relevant insurance projects and put in 200,000 yuan in Chayou Rear Banner to buy accident insurance for 4002 primary students. As a result, all the primary students in the rural pasturing areas of the banner were covered by student accident insurance, which prevented rural families’ falling into or returning poverty due to diseases of their children.
【Infrastructure construction and industrial poverty alleviation】 CIRC invested 400,000 yuan in No. 5 Village of Guangyilong Town, Chayou Middle Banner for the construction of one demonstration base for tree and grass planting in mountain areas and chicken breeding, henneries of 5700 square meters and supporting facilities of 2210 square meters. Relying on Hengfa Livestock Breeding and Processing Cooperatives in Chayou Middle Banner, this project raised 38,000 chickens on the returned grassland of 1300 mu, achieved good results. It not only provided biological insecticide for forestry and meadow, but also produced pollution-free green poultry products, achieving virtuous circle of ecosystem in the aquiculture area. Through the implementation of the project, we encouraged and supported poor farmers and herdsmen to join the cooperatives for common development on a voluntary basis so as to accelerate the pace of poverty reduction.
【Entire Village Advancement】 To give full play to the maximum efficiency of the use of funds, CIRC invested 400,000 yuan in Chayou Rear Banner and, combined with the funds for entire village advancement, developed fodder grass base of 1000 mu in Danglang Hudong Huangyangcheng Gacha, built cattle stalls and dug one motor-pumped well, promoting local industrialization development and enhancing the self-development capacity of local poor farmers.
【Warmth Delivery Activity】 CIRC carries out the activity of warmth delivery to the poor in the two banners during the Spring Festival every year. In 2012, it allocated 50,000 yuan for each of the two banners to purchase rice, flour, oil, coal and other articles for daily use for the poor and delivered the care of Party and government to local poverty-stricken families.
【Donation of equipment and materials】 To accelerate the information construction of the two banners, CIRC donated desktop computers, laptops and laser printers worth 3.7407 million yuan to the two banners in 2012.
Equipment and material use of Chayou Middle Banner: Chayou Middle Banner received donations of 65 desktop computers, 54 notebook computers and three laser printers worth 1.8674 million yuan, of which the equipment worth 1.4847 million yuan was used to support the information construction of vocational schools in Chayou Middle Banner so as to enhance the students’ practical training ability; and the equipment worth 382,700 yuan was used to support the establishment of mutual-aid fund management systems in 25 poor administrative villages of Chayou Middle Banner.
Equipment and material use of Chayou Rear Banner: Chayou Rear Banner received donations of 66 desktop computers, 53 notebook computers and 4 laser printers worth 1.8733 million yuan, of which the equipment worth 1.7667 million yuan was used to support the information construction of two primary schools in Chayou Rear Banner and equipment worth 106600 yuan was allocated to seven “Happy Nursing Homes” newly built in Sumu Town.
(Zhao Jiasong, General Office of China Insurance Regulatory Commission)
Poverty Alleviation of Agricultural Bank of China
【Overview】 In 2012, Agricultural Bank of China actively implemented the spirit of the central government, continued to increase loans for poor counties and contiguous impoverished regions and actively explored the establishment of commercial poverty alleviation mode. In 2012, the bank issued loans of 188.84 billion yuan to 14 contiguous poor areas, with balance of 325.59 billion yuan at the year-end, 55.99 billion yuan more than that at the beginning of that year; issued loans of 460.45 billion yuan to 592 national key counties and 495 provincial key counties for poverty alleviation and development, with balance of 645.64 billion yuan at the year-end, 109.43 billion yuan more than that at the beginning of that year; accounting for 30.3% of the county loans, effectively boosting the economic and social development of impoverished areas, improving agricultural efficiency and increasing farmers’ income.
【Pro-poor policies】 In order to implement the spirit of the central work conference on poverty alleviation and development and the “Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)” and further promote the financial poverty reduction, based on the formulation of the “Opinions on the Implementation of the ‘Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)’ to Promote Financial Poverty Alleviation”, Agricultural Bank of China issued the “Circular on Promoting Financial Services for Contiguous Poor Areas”, required the banks at all levels in the contiguous poor areas to fully understand the importance of financial services in contiguous poor areas, effectively strengthen communication with all levels of governments, actively introduce and implement the planning for contiguous poor areas and increase efforts on financial service. Meanwhile, we launched pilot projects of financial services in Wuling Mountain Area, for which the planning was the first to be announced, and explored the establishment of effective financial service mode for contiguous poor areas.
【Industrial poverty alleviation】 Industrial poverty alleviation is an important part of poverty alleviation and development work. Poverty alleviation leading enterprises at all levels are the links between poor rural households and the market and the important carriers of industrialization poverty alleviation. To give full play to the leading role of poverty alleviation leading enterprises, mainly 173 national poverty alleviation leading enterprises, including the New Hope Group, Guangxi Fengtang Biochemical Co., Ltd. and Inner Mongolia Dongda Mongolia King Cashmere Group, etc., Agricultural Bank of China supported industrial poverty alleviation and achieved new results. As of the end of 2012, it had granted credit of 21.63 billion yuan for 173 national poverty alleviation leading enterprises, 125 million yuan per enterprise and the loan balance was 13.02 billion yuan, 75.28 million yuan per enterprise. Through supporting the development of national poverty alleviation leading enterprises, it increased the income of about 1.39 million poor rural households by 2644 yuan per household. Meanwhile, in accordance with the characteristics of the industry economy in poor areas, to boost the development of leading industries and the industries with local characteristics in impoverished regions, Agricultural Bank of China provided market-oriented integrated financial services for the rural households at the front end of the industry chain under the leadership of industrialization leading enterprises, promoting the upgrading of industrial chain and protecting the interests of rural households. Xinjiang Branch of Agricultural Bank of China actively supported the growth of local featured forestry and fruit industry. In 2012, it issued a total of 3.298 billion yuan of loans for featured forestry and fruit industry, of which 2.763 billion yuan was issued to 57 legal forestry and fruit growing entities, 534 million yuan was issued to 5726 farmers engaged in fruit tree planting. At the end of that year, the balance of loans for featured forestry and fruit growing was 2.967 billion yuan, with an increase of 881 million yuan over the beginning of that year. Relying on the development of local dairy industry, Inner Mongolia Branch of Agricultural Bank of China issued credit loans of 5.06 billion yuan for the key leading enterprises in dairy industry of Inner Mongolia in 2012, and the loan balance at the end of that year was 1.59 billion yuan, benefiting one million rural households engaged in dairy industry.
【Microfinance-based poverty alleviation】 Since 2009, Agricultural Bank of China has been actively exploring the implementation of pilot project of microfinance-based poverty alleviation by China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation. Through issuing wholesale loans to credit agencies involved in microfinance-based poverty alleviation, it indirectly carried out household poverty alleviation work. In 2012, Agricultural Bank of China increased the credit for China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation to 300 million yuan and newly issued loans of 30 million yuan. Among the financial agencies, Agricultural Bank of China supported the pilot project of poverty alleviation by microfinance with the lowest loan rate and the most preferential lending conditions. As of the end of 2012, China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation had obtained a total of 215 million yuan of loans from Agricultural Bank of China. Supported by the loans, its pilot projects of poverty alleviation by microfinance witnessed rapid development. As of the end of 2012, it had set up 63 branches, 11 more than that at the beginning of that year. It issued 1.36 billion yuan of loans in 2012, with an increase of 290 million yuan over the previous year, and the loan balance was 860 million yuan, covering 17273 administrative villages and 7.71 million rural households. The risk loan rate (longer than 30 days) was only 0.23% and the project operation situation was good.
【Pro-poor discount loans】 After the poverty alleviation interest subsidy system reform, Agricultural Bank of China is no longer covered by the national poverty alleviation interest subsidy program. Over the years, however, Agricultural Bank of China has always taken poverty-relief discount loans as an important means for credit poverty reduction and to serve “three rural issues”, actively got involved in the issuance of national poverty-relief discount loans and achieved good economic and social benefits. In 2012, Agricultural Bank of China issued poverty alleviation discount loans of 5.99 billion yuan, with an increase of 830 million yuan, and the loan balance was 12.18 billion yuan at the end of that year, with an increase of 2.85 billion yuan, which supported 260 poverty alleviation enterprises or projects, increased the income of 620,000 poor rural households by 1945 yuan per household. in close cooperation with the Provincial Department of Finance, Gansu Branch of the Agricultural Bank of China launched the product of “duplex rural household loan” in the poor villages of the province. The government provides full interest subsidy, the Agricultural Bank of China provides the benchmark loan rate and the government-led security company provides full guarantee to support the rural households in 58 poor counties to shake off poverty and become rich. As of the end of 2012, the bank had issued duplex rural household loans of 630 million yuan to 10,428 rural households.
【Rehabilitation poverty-relief loans】 Under the premise of adhering to the basic credit system, based on the characteristics of welfare enterprises or disabled farmers, Agricultural Bank of China maintained flexibility on the access to credit and mainly supported the industrialization leading enterprises and welfare enterprises that helped find jobs and held trainings for the disabled to promote the development of public services for people with disabilities. In 2012, Agricultural Bank of China invested a total of 340 million yuan of rehabilitation poverty-relief loans to support 42 enterprises for the disabled and increased the income of 8731 rural households with disabled persons with 8990 yuan per household. The loans increased by 170 million yuan over the previous year and the balance of loans were 420 million yuan, with an increase of 230 million yuan compared to that at the beginning of that year. In accordance with the rehabilitation poverty-relief loan program determined jointly with local disabled persons’ federation, in 2012, Xinjiang Corps Branch of the Agricultural Bank of China issued petty loans of 16.572 million yuan to more than 900 households, covering over 150 farms, increasing farmers’ income by 5327 yuan per household. Shanxi Branch of the Agricultural Bank of China vigorously supported the development of Shanxi Kaisheng Fertilizer Industry Co., Ltd. In 2012, the balance of its credit loans to this company was 36 million yuan and the bank provided technical guidance for more than 100,000 person-times and invested more than 6.5 million yuan for the disabled, increasing the income of people with disabilities by 200 million yuan.
【Poverty alleviation in contiguous impoverished areas with particular difficulties】 To increase support for key industries and sectors in the contiguous poor areas and tap the economic development potential of the contiguous poor areas, starting from characteristic agriculture, resource-based industries, commercial circulation, tourism and cultural industry, Agricultural Bank of China summarized and the typical experience and service patterns of its relevant branches in financial services for contiguous poor areas and planned to popularize them to the whole bank to guide its affiliates to do a good job in financial services for contiguous poor areas. In 2012, Agricultural Bank of China issued loans of 188.84 billion yuan to 14 contiguous poor areas with year-end balance of 325.59 billion yuan. Chongqing Wulong Subbranch of Agricultural Bank of China implemented the strategy of poverty reduction by tourism. Since October 2009, it has issued a total of more than 950 million yuan of loans to tourism and related industries. At the end of 2012, balance of the loans for tourism industry was 937 million yuan, which was mainly used to support the in-depth development of Furong River and Xiannv Mountain, live performance of Impressive Wulong and the construction of Jiangkou Reception Center, etc. To support Liangshan Prefecture to create a clean energy base, in 2012, Sichuan Yuexi County Subbranch of Agricultural Bank of China issued loans of 293 million yuan for the construction of Tiexi Power Station, Chayuanhe Power Station and Tuanjie Power Station, increasing the income of 1320 Yi households by more than 4000 yuan per household.
【Basic financial services in rural areas】 In 2012, Agricultural Bank of China further promoted the implementation of Jinsui Agriculture-benefiting Project. It is a new mode for Agricultural Bank of China to provide basic financial services for farmers relying on electronic equipment based on the actual situation of a small number of business offices and staffs and high service cost in rural areas, giving full play to its advantages in products, network and technology. As of 2012, Agricultural Bank of China set up 579,000 service points for the project in rural areas nationwide, with an increase of 223,000 over the year-beginning; and allocated 1.126 million electronic machines, with an increase of 301,000 over the year-beginning. 63.9% of the administrative villages were equipped with electronic equipment, 36.1 percentage points above that at the year-beginning.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】 In 2012, the Agricultural Bank of China continued to provide counterpart support for Wuqiang and Xian County of Hebe. Taking the improvement of the infrastructure, conditions for basic education and medical conditions in rural areas and the strengthening of skills training of farmers as the top priorities of the fixed-point poverty alleviation work, the Agricultural Bank of China provided support for the completion of seven key projects in recent years and achieved remarkable economic and social benefits, manifesting the social responsibility of the Agricultural Bank of China. First, improved the conditions for basic education. It successively supported the removal of Xianxian Kindergarten that can accommodate 720 children, the renovation of Beidai Town ABC Hope Primary School, the reconstruction of Changcun Jinsui Hope Primary School and the construction of Teaching Laboratory and plastic playground in Wuqiang County Middle School, etc. Second, helped the poor counties to enhance rural medical service level. It helped all the administrative villages of Wuqiang County to set up 26 clinics, of which house building of 1828.4 square meters was launched and completed in 2012, up to the standards verified by the provincial, city and county government. Third, held town chief training courses for the poor counties. It continued to hold the town chief training course for the two poor counties once a year to enhance the theoretical level of local town chiefs. Fourth, organized the public welfare sponsorship activity. In 2012, the bank donated bags and books worth 30,009 yuan to Wuqiang County Primary School.
(Liu Xianliang, Department of Planning and Policy on Agriculture, Farmers and Rural Areas of Agricultural Bank of China)
Poverty Alleviation of All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives
【Overview】 In 2012, in accordance with the requirements of the “Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)” and the spirit of the central work conference on poverty alleviation and development, giving full play the system and industry’s advantages, taking new rural modern circulating service network project construction and the department projects of agricultural development, supply and marketing cooperatives as the carrier, All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives (ACFSMC) speeded up the construction of rural circulation network, vigorously developed farmers’ specialized cooperatives and socialized agricultural services, and played an important role in boosting the economic and social development of poor areas, stimulating the circulation between urban and rural areas and serving farmers’ production and lives.
【Field research on poverty alleviation】 In April 2012, Yang Chuantang, former party secretary and board director of All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives led relevant department heads of ACFSM to carry out a field research on poverty alleviation in Qianshan County of Anhui Province covered by Dabie Mountain Contiguous Poor Area, visited poor villages, households and industrial project bases, held talks with the provincial, city and county leaders and formed the opinions of ACFSM on further promoting anti-poverty work.
【Poverty alleviation system building】 In accordance with the opinions formed by ACFSM leaders in the field research in Qianshan County of Anhui Province, the department of economic development and reform – a department of ACFSM with the function of poverty alleviation drafted the “Opinions and Suggestions on Poverty Alleviation and Development Work of ACFSM”, which became an important system for the current and future poverty alleviation and development work after being approved by the director meeting. Fixed-point poverty alleviation: First, taking Qianshan County as a practice base for ACFSM’s sending cadres, ACFSM selects two or three excellent young cadres from relevant organs every year to support the poverty alleviation in the poor county, including one department leader to act as a member of the county party standing committee and subprefect of Qianshan County and one cadre to act as deputy township party secretary. Second, raised the special funds for fixed-point poverty alleviation from 200,000 yuan to 600,000 yuan in 2012, and the figure will increase year by year till 2015. Third, taking Qianshan County as the liaison point for reform and development of ACFSM, independent plan was designed for the financial support projects of ACFSM. Four measures were clarified for the participation in poverty alleviation and development in contiguous poor areas: First, to support the construction of rural circulation network in contiguous poor areas; second, to accelerate the development of farmers’ cooperatives in contiguous poor areas; third, to encourage leading enterprises in the industry to invest for project construction in the contiguous poor areas; fourth, to strengthen guidance and service for local supply and marketing cooperatives in the contiguous poor areas.
【Construction of rural distribution network】 Actively combining the construction of “modern circulation network project of new countryside” with the poverty alleviation and development work, to improve the rural circulation facilities in poor areas, ACFSM established the county, township and village-level service network to meet farmers’ production and living needs. First, in 2012, the central government allocated 1.3 billion yuan of special funds for “modern circulation network project of new countryside”, mainly to support supply and marketing cooperatives to build agricultural production and consumer goods business services network, modern agricultural marketing network and renewable resource recycling network. In the allocation of funds, ACFSM gave priority to contiguous poor areas and launched most of the 665 projects in impoverished or underdeveloped rural areas. Second, include Ganzhou City of Jiangxi with 11 key counties for national poverty alleviation and development, Yulin City of Shaanxi with 10 key counties, Tianshui City of Gansu with six key counties and Linyi City of Shandong with five key counties into ACFSM’s reform and development contact points and provide three million yuan of project funds every year to support the construction of rural circulation network system. Third, giving play to the advantage of the system network, help poor areas solve agricultural products marketing problem. In 2012, through directly purchasing agricultural products, we helped the farmers earn income of 518.19 billion yuan.
【Poverty alleviation by specialized cooperatives】 Focusing on the competitive industries with local characteristics in poor areas, the supply and marketing cooperatives in various regions put much effort on initiating farmers’ cooperatives to improve the level of organization and marketization of the farmers in impoverished areas. Taking farmers’ cooperatives as the carrier, it increased financial support for poor rural households and built a close interest relationship with the poor. As of the end of 2012, the supply and marketing cooperatives had organized the establishment of 77,000 farmers’ cooperatives, of which 17,000 cooperatives passed the organic, green and pollution-free certification and more than 10,000 had registered trademarks to provide information technology, brand marketing, processing, storage and transportation service for more than 10 million rural households that joined in the cooperatives. Meanwhile, the ACFSMC further increased support for the development of farmers’ cooperatives in poverty-stricken areas. In 2012, it arranged 35.05 million yuan of department project funds for the supply and marketing cooperatives engaged in comprehensive agricultural development, which encouraged the issuance of 15.11 million yuan of local matching funds and supported the planting, breeding bases and agricultural product processing and circulating projects of farmers’ cooperatives and leading enterprises in 55 key counties for national poverty alleviation and development, boosting the development of featured agricultural industry in poor areas and playing a positive role in helping farmers shake off poverty.
【Social services in rural areas】 Supply and marketing cooperatives nationwide actively built regional rural social service platforms. Based on strengthening agricultural supply, commodity sales and the acquisition of agricultural products, they actively expanded public services, strengthened cooperation with cultural, education, communications, tourism and other sectors, improved basic services facilities and built rural libraries, clinics, police offices, insurance, postal services and communications business offices to meet the diverse needs of the masses in poor areas. As of the end of 2012, the whole system had set up 275,000 village-level integrated service offices, with an increase of 36,000 over the previous year, including 59,000 jointly built with the village committees. Basically covering 1/3 of the administrative villages nationwide, the integrated service office has become an important starting point for local party committee and government to promote the equalization of urban and rural public services and strengthen and make innovations to social management.
【Industrial poverty alleviation】 Supply and marketing cooperatives across the county actively participated in the economic construction of poor areas, led the poor to develop green and pollution-free featured agricultural industries based on the natural conditions in poor areas, implemented the industrialization mode of “leading enterprise + professional cooperatives or base + poor households", developed natural, ecological, safe, healthy and brand agricultural products through the construction of standardized production bases to improve product quality, enhance added value of products and increase the income of poor households. As of the end of 2012, 2042 leading enterprise of agricultural industrialization recognized by governments at all levels and provincial or central departments in the whole sector helped 16.59 million rural households earn income of 59.37 billion yuan, supported the construction of 29,000 standardized production bases involving 13.636 million rural households, and helped farmers earn income of 53.48 billion yuan.
【Poverty alleviation by science, technology and education】 With a total of 94 vocational colleges in the field and nearly 300,000 students, local supply and marketing cooperatives strengthened the secondary vocational education and short-term skills trainings for junior and high middle school graduates from needy families, actively held practical technical trainings of poor farmers, increased employment channels for labors of impoverished regions and supported employment transfer of the labors in poverty-stricken areas. Meanwhile, supply and marketing cooperatives at all levels gave full play to their scientific and technological advantages, used 8 subordinate research institutes and 39,000 crops hospitals to provide technical training, promotion, application and information consulting services for the farmers. In 2012, it set up scientific experiment and demonstration field of 354,000 hectares and carried out soil testing and fertilization for 1.353 million hectares of farmland; provided technical trainings and information consultation service for 15.747 million people; provided seeds and seedlings worth 6.77 billion yuan and issued 19.705 million copies of scientific and technical materials.
【Project support of the subordinates】The supply and marketing cooperatives in various regions guided and coordinated the enterprises directly under their administration, the trade associations, research institutes and agricultural industrialization leading enterprises to invest in project construction of contiguous poor areas, develop and utilize local advantageous resources and participate in local economic and social construction. As of the end of 2012, for example, China Federation of Supply and Marketing Group Limited, which is affiliated to the ACFSMC, supported to construct 13 large projects in the key counties with a total investment of 5.69 billion Yuan to promote the economic development and employments of the poor in local areas.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】 In 2012, the ACFSMC adopted a variety of measures to steadily promote the anti-poverty work in Qianshan County of Anhui.
First, enhanced the interaction with designated poor counties. ACFSMC sent one minister-level, five bureau-level and 15 division-level (or below) cadres to carry out field research in Qianshan County. Relevant leaders and departments of Qianshan County government successively came to communicate with ACFSMC about the anti-poverty work for three times and donated a silk banner of “Promoting Poverty Alleviation for A Beautiful Countryside with Love for Old Revolutionary Bases” to express thanks to ACFSMC for its decade of assistance, and the mechanism for good communication between the two sides was established.
Second, strengthened personnel support for poor counties. In 2012, ACFSMC sent two excellent young cadres from relevant institutions to serve as temporary cadres in Qianshan County, including one department leader to act as a member of the county party standing committee and subprefect of Qianshan County and one cadre to act as deputy party secretary.
Third, increased special funds for fixed-point poverty alleviation. In 2012, ACFSMC increased the special funds for fixed-point poverty alleviation from 200,000 yuan to 600,000 yuan and issued the funds in full.
Fourth, actively participated in entire village advancement to support the construction of a beautiful countryside. ACFSMC raised funds through many channels, chose three villages as the target of entire village advancement and invested one million yuan for each of the villages, mainly to support public infrastructure construction. Currently, three million yuan of entire village advancement funds have been issued in full to the three villages and the three villages are now implementing the project according to the standard for demonstration zones of "beautiful countryside".
Fifth, continued to promote the poverty alleviation and development by industrialization projects. Edible mushroom industry is an anti-poverty industrialization project supported by ACFSMC for years. In 2012, the special funds for fixed-point poverty alleviation were still mainly used to support this industry. Through substituting subsidies with rewards, ACFSMC supported the construction of edible mushroom industry bases, the cultivation of leading processing enterprises and brand building, and gradually formed the shitake mushroom and fungus-based edible mushroom production pattern, involving the production of oyster mushroom, ganoderma lucidum, needle mushroom and bamboo fungus, driving more than 3000 rural households in 14 towns of the county to engage in the production of edible mushroom with an annual production capacity of more than 9.5 million sticks worth 76 million yuan. The mushroom industry is listed among the top ten agricultural industries with local characteristics in the county by Qianshan County Party Committee and Government. In addition, we actively helped two professional cooperatives in Qianshan County declare new cooperative demonstration projects for comprehensive agricultural development in 2013 and strove 1.3 million yuan of financial funds for the projects.
(Liu Xicheng, Department of Economic Development and Reform,
All-China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives)
Poverty Alleviation of All-China Federation of Trade Unions
【Overview】 In 2012, All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) conscientiously implemented the spirit of the speech made by General Secretary Xi Jinping in his field research on poverty alleviation and development in Fuping County of Hebei Province and further increased efforts on the fixed-point poverty alleviation in Heshun County of Shanxi Province. To ensure the continuity of poverty alleviation, ACFTU changed the poverty alleviation period of the anti-poverty team from one year to two years, carefully developed the poverty alleviation programs and determined the guideline of adhering to development-oriented poverty alleviation, starting from strengthening infrastructure construction, improving basic service capacity and nurturing leading agricultural industry, and taking supporting leading enterprises, assisting base building and helping rural households as the basic approaches. With joint efforts from the provincial, city and county poverty alleviation work teams, we strove for relief funds of 156 million yuan, implemented entire village advancement projects to benefit 34,400 poverty-stricken people, relocated 11,000 people, lifted 12100 people out of poverty, solved the food and clothing problems of 17,400 people and reduced the low-income population by 18,500. As of the end of 2012, the county’ per capita annual net income increased from 2,862 yuan to 3,334 yuan, the per capita annual net income of the poor rose from 1800 yuan to 2054 yuan, and 4300 people had shaken off poverty in the county even though the poverty line was raised.
【Industrial poverty alleviation】 Carried out industrial poverty alleviation to promote the steady income growth of poor households. First, supported the development of animal husbandry industry. After the successful declaration of the protection of Heshun Beef Cattle products, to enhance brand awareness and promote the product sales, we actively promoted Heshun Beef Cattle to become a national golden brand. Second, promoted the development of walnut plantation industry. We invested 200,000 yuan to purchase high-yielding dwarf walnut trees, encouraging the investment of 3.22 million yuan in land formation from all circles of society and the villages of Shijiazhuang. On the basis of improving walnut cultivation techniques and expanding the planting area, we established a mechanism for regular on-site training on the management of the walnut tree planting and pest control techniques, effectively improved the survival rate, yield and efficiency of local walnut trees and extended the full bearing period. Third, supported specialized planting. Introduced new varieties of honeysuckle and kiwifruit, guided villagers to t grow Chinese herbs and southern fruits, planned to support the development of skullcap, bupleurum and other Chinese herbs industry through developing valley economy, continued to conduct comparative experiments on Wang Jundou high-yielding potato planting technique and two traditional planting methods and found the new planting technique led to higher yield. Fourth, used local microclimate to conduct rice cultivation. Making use of the unique microclimate in Qiaozhuang Village, we conducted experimental rice planting of 40 mu participated by 13 rural households. The annual production was nearly 1000 jin per mu, the total output reached 40,000 jin and 3 kilograms of rice could be produced. In such a way, we aimed at cultivating a new industry of organic rice with local characteristics of Qiaozhuang. Fifth, set up patented technology demonstration park. Taking full account of local traditional planting technique and experience as well as the soil structure of selected area, we determined to use the patented technology of "tree planting with long-lasting coating in arid regions" invented by National Model Worker Wang Jundou to promote local industry development. This project was listed in the "Successful Cases of Innovative Social Poverty Alleviation" edited by LGOP. Sixth, continued to promote the development of characteristic folk handicraft industry. Through policy guidance, economic support, tracking services, exchange of ideas, learning and propaganda, we mainly supported characteristic folk handicraft industry with a certain foundation to improve the popularity of local grain painting, embroidery, carving and other crafts products, create and extend the industrial chain, promote local employment and broaden channels to increase farmers’ income.
【Education and training】 Strengthened education and training to improve intelligence poverty alleviation effect. First, continued to improve the level of education of the poor. Held various technical trainings for more than 3,000 person-times, further promoted the follow-up improvement and hardware upgrading of Tsinghua Remote Education Station, and continued to organize trainings on farming, employment transfer of farmers and civil craftsmanship, and trainings of teachers and rural doctors through education-based poverty alleviation training website and holding training courses. Second, sent teaching resources to the countryside. Introduced the advantageous teaching resources of colleges and key middle schools in Beijing, with cultural studies supported by Beijing No.4 Middle School and specialized courses supported by Academy of Arts & Design of Tsinghua University, Central Conservatory of Music and Beijing University of Physical Education, developed specialized training programs, invited relevant experts to guide local education and sent local professional teachers to study in Beijing, aiming at improving the quality of teaching for talented students of Heshun High School as soon as possible.
【Improve people's livelihood and social poverty alleviation】 Increased efforts to improve local people's livelihood and promote social poverty alleviation. First, further promoted the construction of floor heating projects for rural households. Replacing coal and fuel wood with agricultural and forestry residues, weeds, sundries and other rural renewable materials, floor heating project for rural households is affordable, safe and comfortable, characterized by energy conservation, environmental protection, construction facilitation, heating convenience, fuel diversification and renewable energy, and has significant poverty reduction effect and overall eco- environmental protection value. Second, effectively solved the drinking water problem of the masses. Invested nearly 100,000 yuan of relief funds in Xianshengtang Village of Pingsong Town, maintained and reinforced reservoirs of 100 cubic meters of the village, newly built three control valve wells, laid main pipelines of 1771 meters, installed 49 sets of home facilities to make water flow into rural households based on the difference in elevation, directly benefiting 49 households and 210 people, solved the drinking water problem of 570 heads of livestocks, and improved eave water harvesting techniques. The implementation of this experimental demonstration project directly benefited 102 people of the village and solved the drinking water problem of 155 heads of livestock and the irrigation problem of vegetable fields of 20 mu. Third, promoted poverty alleviation by social undertakings and material support. Through sending teachers and doctors to the countryside and contacting the relevant units to deliver warmth, we promoted local education and medical technology, donated 51 computer classrooms and theatrical performances props to local middle schools and spread agricultural technology knowledge to enhance the teaching quality and medical service level, improve medical service conditions for the masses and enrich farmers' cultural life.
(Dai Mingmei, Department of Economics and Technology,
All-China Federation of Trade Unions)
Poverty Alleviation of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League
【Overview】 In 2012, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League (CCCYL) seriously implemented the spirit of the central work conference on poverty alleviation and development and the “Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)”, further clarified the direction of work, highlighted work priorities and mobilized young people and the majority of organizations of the Youth League at all levels to actively participate in the new round of poverty alleviation and development.
【Documents on poverty alleviation】 In May 2012, LGOP and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League jointly issued the “Opinions on Mobilizing and Supporting CYL Organizations At All Levels and the Majority of Young People to Actively Participate in Poverty Alleviation and Development” (Guo Kai Ban Fa [2012] No. 35) and made overall deployments for the implementation of the Rain Plan, the including of microfinance into poverty-relief discount policy and the in-depth poverty reduction by young volunteers, creating policy conditions for CYL organizations at all levels to strengthen their cooperation with local poverty alleviation departments and participate in poverty alleviation and development.
【Promote youth employment and entrepreneurship】 First, jointly with relevant banking financial institutions, the CCCYL continued to promote microfinance for youth entrepreneurship. Through recommend youth entrepreneurship projects to banks, we promoted the innovations in joint guarantee, mutual guarantee and the warranty by natural persons and economic organizations, the CYL organizations at all levels mainly helped the young in poor areas solve financial problems encountered in the entrepreneurial process and, jointly with the People's Bank of China, launched the credit demonstration household project for rural young people to boost the construction of rural credit systems in impoverished regions. Throughout the year, the CCCYL promoted banking institutions to issue petty loans of 64.152 billion yuan to support youth entrepreneurship in rural areas, benefiting 1.4026 million rural young people. Second, continued to strengthen its cooperation with the departments of human resources and social security, agriculture and technology, mainly organized practical skills trainings for the young in poor areas, strengthened the construction of youth employment and entrepreneurship training bases and helped the youth in poor areas accumulate work experience and improve employment and entrepreneurship capability. Meanwhile, jointly with relevant poverty alleviation departments, the CCCYL launched the activity to assist impoverished students – “Rain Plan · Take-off project” for the junior and senior middle school graduates in central and western rural areas and selected more than 1400 junior and senior middle school graduates in rural areas to receive free vocational education. Throughout the year, the CYL organizations at all levels held trainings for a total of 11.0116 million rural young people.
【Poverty alleviation by volunteers】 First, continued to implement the "Go West" College Graduates Volunteer Program. Continued to implement seven service projects in the central and western regions, including basic education, agricultural science and technology, medical treatment and public health, grassroots youth work, grassroots social management, services for Xinjiang and services for Tibet. Jointly with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, we issued the "Implementation Plan for the ‘Go West’ College Graduates Volunteer Program in 2012". Since August 2012, we raised the volunteers’ basic living allowance from 760 yuan to 1,000 yuan per month, newly recruited 8500 volunteers and sent 830 volunteers for graduate education aid groups, making the number of participants maintain at 17,000 that year. Second, made steady progress in the program for college students go to the countryside to spread scientific and literacy knowledge and other medical service to farmers in summer vacation, made clear the need of 572 projects for agricultural development by technology in 500 counties, integrated university resources to set up 442 national key groups for “agriculture supporting by science and technology” to provide matchmaking service and support agricultural development by technology. Throughout the year, we organized 4 million students and 200,000 volunteer service groups at all levels to provide volunteer services in rural poor areas, including support for education, medical service, support for agriculture by science and technology, artistic performance, legal aid, etc.
【Social poverty alleviation】 Giving full play to the advantage of CYL organizations in organized and socialized mobilization, the CCCYL widely integrated various social resources and established the mechanism for social poverty alleviation participated by internal and external forces of the CYL organizations.
1. Organized young experts and young entrepreneurs to service as temporary cadres in the western regions and exchange experience with local areas and sent 172 "doctor service group" members to work in the western regions, old revolutionary base areas and ethnic minority areas. So far, we have sent 12 batches of more than 1400 "doctor service group" members for this program. Meanwhile, we organized nearly 300 young entrepreneurs to carry out research and exchange cooperation projects in the national poor counties such as Dafang, Zhijin and Jinsha of Guizhou, the old revolutionary base areas in Fuping, Chengcheng, Linwei and Hancheng of Shaanxi Province, Qinghai and other western provinces, visited local Hope Primary School and donated 268,700 yuan to the school.
2. Established the "Light of Science" Young Expert Service Group, successively provided technology services in the underdeveloped areas and key counties for national poverty alleviation and development in Jilin, Shanxi, Sichuan and Inner Mongolia; provided medical services, medicines and technologies for the poor youth in Gansu and Ningxia, issued medical equipment worth 1.98 million yuan to 200 township hospitals and subdistrict health centers, issued medicines worth 300,000 yuan for free and donated 10,000 healthcare books to 15,000 poor households and young migrant workers, and held trainings of 654 rural young medical workers.
3. Project Hope and Book Donation Project increased support for impoverished areas. Implemented the "Plan for Project Hope to Provide Financial Aid for One Hundred Counties" and provided counterpart support for 100 counties selected from 14 contiguous poor areas and national key counties for poverty alleviation and development. Throughout the year, we provided aid funds of 13,190,000 yuan for Wufeng of Hubei and Haiyuan of Ningxia, of which 9.2 million yuan was issued to support the construction of 23 Hope Primary Schools and 3.99 million yuan was used to subsidize 7439 students. Meanwhile, relying on the Book Donation Project, we donated books of 136.8 million Mayang to more than 1500 units of 20 central and western provinces.
4. Increased efforts on personnel transfer to central and western poor areas. To support the "985 Project" and "211 Project", we implemented in relevant universities the “Plan for Excellent College Students to Contribute to Grassroots Construction in the West” and guided excellent fresh college graduates to work in western regions, poor areas and grassroots areas, and a total of 429 students were selected for this program in 2012. Meanwhile, we coordinated New Oriental Education & Technology Group to invest 50 million yuan to subsidize poor students in West China to complete their studies. Throughout the year, a total of 750 university students from needy families in the western areas received student subsidies of 1.5 million yuan.
5. Strengthened students’ interaction between poor areas and developed provinces, mobilized all circles of society to get involved in the implementation of the "Plan for Ten Thousand Young People to Exchange Ideas on National Unity", and carried out national activity of social practice and observation by minority college students, social practice and training of backbone minority college students, summer camp of students from various nationalities, the summer camp activity of “all the young hand in hand”, etc. More than 2,600 young people got involved in the education activity of national unity in Shanghai, Shandong and Sichuan Province.
【Construction of the League’s grassroots organizations in poor areas】 CCCYL raised funds to provide funding of 30,000 yuan a year for 2218 county Communist Youth League committees in central and western regions and arranged 6.24 million yuan for 624 towns in the 14 contiguous poor areas, 10,000 yuan per town. Meanwhile, it continued to send CYL leaders above prefecture level to guide the work of county CYL committees, dispatched a total of 714 CYL leaders to work in some county-level CYL committees of the western poor areas, organized 2389 CYL leaders of some universities nationwide to serve the county Youth League Committees, sent more than 2600 young volunteers to 503 western counties to support the implementation of the West Plan; strengthened training of league secretaries of middle schools and secondary vocational schools in impoverished regions and, under the principles of hierarchical and tiered training, we issued for free the “Reading Material for Communist Youth League Cadres of Secondary Vocational Schools”, the “100 Games for Socialized Skills Training of Secondary Vocational School Students” and other training materials for the Communist Youth League Committees of the secondary vocational schools in 20 provinces and autonomous regions.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】 With strong support of the County Party Committee and Government of Lingqiu County of Shanxi Province, the 12th and 13th poverty alleviation work team of the Central Committee of China Communist Youth League actively explored path, mode and methods for local economic development and poverty reduction suited to the situation of Lingqiu County, promoting the fixed-point poverty alleviation to achieve good results.
1. Further implemented the entire village advancement project. Targeting at Hanjiafang Village of Wuling Town, to improve the village appearance, support agricultural industry and boost the development of social undertakings, we implemented the entire village advancement project. First, improved the pattern of "cooperatives + party branch" and, by giving full play to the agglomeration effect of "Tongfeng Vegetable Cooperatives in Linqiu County", helped more people become rich. Second, promoted new rural infrastructure construction, coordinated the allocation of 800,000 yuan of central funds for environmental protection and implemented the projects of village appearance improvement and street sewage discharge and treatment. Third, increased support for Pengfei Pig Farm – a youth entrepreneurship project, helped it introduce boars and feeding techniques, improve breeding level and achieve annual output of 200 pigs, and speeded up the construction of 48 vegetable sunshine greenhouses to make it a new growth point to boost the economic development in Hanjiafang Village.
2. Continued to implement agricultural industry projects. Through industry development and project implementation, we actively introduced new technologies and new varieties to develop a number of distinctive, attractive industrial projects with a certain foundation. First, strengthened the construction of demonstration bases. Established potato seed demonstration base of 50 mu in Zhaobei Town; promoted the implementation of the experimental project of new varieties of maize in Dongnanhe Town, and set up new maize species demonstration bases of 50 mu. Second, improved the agricultural marketing chain. Jointly with China State Farms Group, we set up one agricultural supply base and one direct-sale store for agricultural products of Lingqiu County, attracting ten agricultural enterprises. Third, strengthened scientific and technological services. Giving play to the role of Shanghai Zhongdu Technical Service Station and the vegetable growing training center, we organized vegetable growing training and demonstration activity; established the vegetable pests teleconsultation video hospital in Dazuo Agricultural Park; assisted the relevant departments to hold the county conference on technology exchange and promotion for facility agriculture and issued 5000 copies of "Vegetable Cultivation Technical Manual"; jointly with Beijing Xinfadi Agricultural Products Wholesale Market, Shandong Weifang City League Committee and Hebei Baoding City League Committee, we organized more than 60 young leaders in becoming rich and college student village cadres to carry out field research on new agricultural technologies and new projects in other places.
3. Fully served tourism and investment work. Jointly with China Youth International, we established the website of "Lingqiu Travel" and carried out the activity of tourism promotion month for Lingqiu County, etc. At the North China Tourism Promotion Conference held in Beijing, we specially introduced the tourism resources of Lingqiu County. Relying on All-China Youth Federation, China Youth Entrepreneurs’ Association, China Association of Rural Youth for Achieving Prosperity and Shanxi Young Entrepreneurs’ Association, we set up the investment platform to attract enterprises to invest in Lingqiu through cooperation. In addition, we helped the county government coordinate the construction of the steel mills with an annual production capacity of 3 million tons in Lingqiu County.
4. Strengthened rural youth personnel training. First, held two rural youth employment and entrepreneurship practical skills trainings and trained more than 60 rural young leaders in achieving prosperity; supported Pingxingguan Vocational Middle School to launch the “rural surplus labor transfer training program”, improved the operation of Lingqiu Youth Entrepreneurship Fund, increased 10,000 yuan of investment and collected loans of 130,000 yuan, creating favorable conditions for serving rural youth employment and entrepreneurship. Second, continued to assist the Organization Department of the County Party Committee to arrange 11 cadres of the county to practice in other places to broaden horizons and improve capacity. Third, held 12 tour reporting meetings of youth leaders in achieving prosperity, and developed 11 special TV programs of “Stories of Rural Leaders in Achieving Prosperity of Lingqiu County” jointly with the Propaganda Department of the County Party Committee.
5. Participated in the construction of public utilities. First, integrated social resources and continued to donate computers and books for primary and secondary schools to promote the improvement of school facilities and teachers' living conditions; coordinated entrepreneurs and Japanese friends to donate more than 100,000 yuan to subsidize poor students; coordinated Chinese Athletes Educational Foundation and Beijing Juitai Law Firm to donate 50 boxes of materials to Lingqiu County. Second, helped contact the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Red Cross Society of China to improve the conditions of the nursing homes in old revolutionary base areas, township hospitals and village clinics; helped Baitai Village of Zhaobei Town build one village health station and donate 30,000 Mayang of books; and raised project funds of 900,000 yuan to promote the construction of two township hospitals, two health stations and six Red Cross libraries in Wuling Town, Donghenan Town and Shangzhai Town.
(Rural Youth Work Department, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League）
Poverty Alleviation of All-China Women's Federation (ACWF)
【Overview】 In 2012, All-China Women's Federation (hereinafter referred to as ACWF) earnestly implemented the “Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)”. In accordance with the overall deployments and requirements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, based on the actual needs of the women and children in poor areas, adhering to people-oriented scientific outlook on development, taking it as an important starting point of the construction of a strong position and a warm home to provide adequate food and clothing for and promote the development of women and children in impoverished regions, making full use of its own social status, social influence, social mobilization force and social resources, ACWF further increased support for the women and children in poor areas and achieved positive results in poverty reduction.
【Small secured loans for women】In 2012, the ACWF continued to promote the implementation of small secured loan policy for women. Over the three years since the implementation of the policy, this program has covered 2383 counties and districts in 31 provinces and autonomous regions, helping nearly 8 million women find jobs. The total loans for women in 12 central and western provinces and autonomous regions were 38.3 billion yuan, which supported 820,000 women to find jobs or launch their own businesses. In 2012, 75.606 billion yuan of loans was issued, with interest discount subsidy of 3.056 billion yuan from the central and local governments, supporting 1.4067 million women to become rich by entrepreneurship. The implementation of small secured loans addressed the financial difficulty for the women in poor areas to launch their own businesses. Through the development of solar greenhouses, vegetable greenhouses and dairy farming, we increased the income of poor women, improved their living standards and promoted their family harmony and social stability.
【Free screening of two caners】 In 2012, the ACWF continued to cooperate with the health department to conduct screening of "two cancers" free of charge for rural women, always giving priority to poverty-stricken women in the project implementation. Throughout the year, the ACWF completed free cervical cancer screening for 2.753 million rural women and free breast cancer screening for 392,000 rural women. While promoting the work, to solve the treatment problem of poverty-stricken women patients, the ACWF set up the “Special Relief Fund for Poor Mothers Suffering from Two Caners” and issued a one-time relief funds of 10,000 yuan to each impoverished woman patient, covering 10,450 people so far.
【Spring Breeze Action】In 2012, The ACWF, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions jointly issued the document and continued to carry out the “Spring Breeze Action” with the theme of “establishing an employment matchmaking platform to jointly help you find jobs as soon as possible”. Targeting at the migrant women workers, the women with difficulties in finding jobs and female university graduates, adhering to the combination of promoting local employment, supporting business launching by returned farmers and strengthening employment matchmaking, we provided preferential policies, projects and job information for women. According to incomplete statistics, the Women's Federations in 14 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) including Tianjin, Shanghai, Jilin, Guangdong and Shanxi organized 276,000 women to take part in vocational skills training and 85,000 women to receive entrepreneurship training, issued small loans 676,000 yuan, held special recruitment activities for 3047 times to help 390,000 women find jobs.
【“Warmth Delivery” Activity】 Before the Spring Festival of 2012, the ACWF launched the activity of “Warmth Delivery”. Headed by the main leaders, we went to the remote poor villages in Yunnan and Inner Mongolia, sent condolence to local poverty-stricken women, delivered warmth, knowledge, health and services to the rural women in minority and border areas and solved their practical problems in living, production and learning. In the activity of ”Warmth Delivery” in 2012, we provided project funds and materials of 8.94 million yuan for the women and children in the two poor counties, including “Health Express for Mothers”, “Action to Eliminate Infant Anemia”, “Water Cellar for Mothers” and “Petty Revolving Loans for Mothers”, etc. As of 2012, through the activity of ”Warmth Delivery”, the ACWF had issued project funds and materials of nearly 300 million yuan to central and western impoverished areas, effectively improving the production and living conditions of the women and children in poor areas.
【Women demonstration bases】 Women demonstration base has become an important platform to help poor women increase income and an important link to promote the close combination between science and technology and agriculture. In 2012, ACWF invested project funds of 6.05 million yuan in central and western impoverished regions and established 99 "National Heroine Modern Agricultural Demonstration Bases" and demonstration bases for "National March 8 Green Projects". Through the demonstration by the bases, ACWF guided women in poor areas to develop production relying on science and technology to increase income and shake off poverty.
【Education and training】 In 2012, ACWF continued to hold various kinds of trainings relying on talent development and training centers and rural women schools. By holding training courses for cares of women’s federations and female brokers for agricultural products circulation in central and western poor areas, it guided the cadres of women’s federations in central and western areas to help poor women increase income and shake off poverty through the implementation of small secured loan policy for women, the development of hand-weaving industry with minority and local characteristics and the enhancement of the degree of organization of production.
【Rain Plan- Takeoff Project】 In 2012, the ACWF and LGOP continued to implement the “Rain Plan- Takeoff Project – Student Aid Action of Ten Thousand Talents in Central and Western Regions”. Organized by Changsha Global Vocational Education Group, this program mainly provides 2-3-year vocational technical training services for free for the junior and senior middle school graduates in western poor areas. In 2012, it recruited more than 200 students from Hunan, Guangxi, Qinghai, Sichuan and Xinjiang.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】 In 2012, adhering to the guideline of “making every effort to lift Zhangxian County out of poverty”, the ACWF gave full play to its advantages, actively integrated various resources and continued to send cadres to support the poverty reduction in poor counties. Throughout the year, ACWF directly issued 2.05 million yuan of project funds and materials to Zhangxian County, involving the construction of demonstration base of “March 8 Green Project”, women’s skills training, Water Cellar for Mothers, single mothers' venture projects, etc., and helped the county introduce project funds of 620.8 million yuan, of which 360 million yuan was issued for Phase II Project of Yilianshan Cement Plant, 257 million yuan was issued to support the construction of Wenyi Secondary Road and 3.8 million yuan was used for grain reserves. The implementation of the poverty alleviation projects and the allocation of relevant relief funds increased the county's fiscal revenue, enhanced the comprehensive strength and boosted the sustainable economic development of Zhangxian County.
(All-China Women's Federation)
Poverty Alleviation of China Disabled Persons' Federation
【Overview】 In 2012, the poverty alleviation and development work for people with disabilities achieved significant results and the production and living conditions of the impoverished disabled was further improved. 2.299 million rural impoverished people with disabilities were supported, of whom 1.373 million people shook off poverty through poverty alleviation and development, and 861,000 people with disabilities received practical skills training.
The Interest-subsidized Loans for Rehabilitation supported 55,000 rural people with disabilities, and 64,000 units and 413,000 individuals were designated to provide counterpart support for the poor disabled. The number of disabled people’s poverty alleviation bases reached 5226, which arranged jobs for 102,000 people with disabilities and supported 258,000 people with disabilities.
Completed the renovation of dilapidated houses for 132,000 rural poor households with disabled people and the renovation funds reached 1.19 billion yuan, benefiting 157,000 people with disabilities.
Primary party organizations launched aid projects for 94,000 rural poor people with disabilities.
The poverty alleviation project for the disabled – market project in ten thousand villages and one thousand towns provided jobs for 5968 impoverished people with disabilities and helped poverty-stricken people with disabilities open 2059 village-level farm shops.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】 In January 2012, Chairwoman of China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF) Zhang Haidi headed a research group to carry out field survey in Nanpi County of Hebei Province – the designated poor county for CDPF’s fixed-point poverty alleviation, donated 500,000 yuan to Nanpi County government on behalf of CDPF and China Welfare Fund for the Handicapped for the reconstruction of the rehabilitation center and donated 20 wheel chairs to help the disabled in need. CDPF and All-China Youth Federation donated 10,000 jin rice to impoverished families with disabled people in Nanpi County. CDPF’s assistive device experts installed artificial limbs free of charge for two people with disabilities caused by a traffic accident. Some rehabilitation experts and professional technicians of the relevant affiliates of CDPF gave site instructions to the doctors of Nanpi County Rehabilitation Center and the family members of people with disabilities.
【Poverty Alleviation and Development Program for Rural People with Disabilities】 In January 2012, the General Office of the State Council issued the “Poverty Alleviation and Development Program for Rural People with Disabilities (2011-2020)” (Guo Ban [2012] No.1) to guide the anti-poverty work for the disabled in the next stage.
The program put forward the goal: “By 2015, all disabled people can live well-off lives with marked improvement in their participation in social affairs and overall development, and institutional guarantee will be provided for their basic living; the basic framework of rural social security system and service system for people with disabilities will be established with higher level of protection and service; by 2020, the state will provide adequate food and clothing for rural people with disabilities and guarantee their equal access to basic health care, basic old-age pension, education, housing and rehabilitation services, family income of rural people with disabilities is expected to reach or be lose to local average and basic public services will cover rural people with disabilities with an increasingly high level; the disabled people will be guaranteed for basic living and a foundation for development and will live a dignified life”. The program put forward seven basic principles, eight tasks, four supporting policies and five work priorities.
Compared to the “Poverty Alleviation and Development Program for Rural People with Disabilities (2001-2010)”, the new program highlights the construction of social security system and service system for rural people with disabilities, the convergence between anti-poverty work and various social security policies, sectoral collaboration and the participation of social forces (a total of 34 departments), clarified the responsibility of all levels of governments, established the examination and evaluation index system and emphasized the refinement and implementation of the measures.
【Ten Thousand Villages and One Thousand Town Market Project for Poverty Alleviation Among the Disabled】 In February 2012, the Ministry of Commerce and CDPF jointly issued the “Implementation Plan for Ten Thousand Villages and One Thousand Town Market Project for Poverty Alleviation Among the Disabled During the ‘12th Five-Year Plan’ Period” (Shang Jian Han [2012] No.56) and determined to jointly launch the poverty alleviation project for the disabled relying on the “Ten Thousand Villages and One Thousand Town Market Project for Poverty Alleviation Among the Disabled” of the Ministry of Commerce during the “12th Five-Year Plan” Period to effectively help the rural poor with disabilities to achieve employment and entrepreneurship, increase income and shake off poverty.
Objective of the “Ten Thousand Villages and One Thousand Town Market Project for Poverty Alleviation Among the Disabled”: From 2012 to 2015, arrange 12,000 impoverished rural people with disabilities or their family members to work in county trade and circulation leading enterprises, distribution centers and township shops and help 2,000 rural families with disabled members to open village shops through the market project in ten thousand villages and one thousand towns implemented by local commercial departments at all levels.
The construction unit and distribution center of the project are required to establish the system to reserve posts for the disabled and make clear a certain position dedicated to people with disabilities or their family members.
【Poverty alleviation project by grassroots party organizations to support the disabled】 To implement the “Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Promoting the Development of Causes for the Disabled” and the “Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)”, give play to the political advantage of grassroots party organizations, help the rural poor disabled improve basic living conditions, support them to develop production, increase income and shake off poverty steadily, the Organization Department of CPC Central Committee and CDPF jointly launched the “poverty alleviation project by grassroots party organizations to support the disabled”.
The “Implementation Plan for the ‘Poverty Alleviation Project By Grassroots Party Organizations to Support the Disabled’ Proposed By the Organization Department of CPC Central Committee and CDPF” clarified that from 2011 to 2015, the rural grassroots party organizations nationwide must support 100,000 rural impoverished families with disabled members to shake off poverty.
As for the specific content of the poverty reduction, the program should cover all the disabled meeting the conditions for receiving subsistence allowances in the impoverished families aided by grassroots party organizations and party members and provided insurance for the disabled after classifying them into groups; we should support all eligible family members of the disabled to participate in the new rural cooperative medical system and the new rural pension insurance system; help all their family members to get basic housing guarantee, and help the family members to master one or two practical skills for stable production projects, aiming to make the annual net income per family of the disabled above local poverty line.
As for the specific implementation steps, the project will be constructed in six phases: Planning development, field survey, approval and file archiving, pairing-off poverty reduction, implementation of pro-poor measures and acceptance inspection.
【Rural library】In 2007, eight departments including the Press and Publication Administration of the People's Republic of China and Civilization Office of the Central Communist Party Committee jointly launched the rural library project. In the project implementation process, Jiangxi Province selected rural poor disabled persons to act as the administrators of the rural libraries and included it into the government’s livelihood projects, effectively promoting the employment of rural disabled people and alleviated the economic burden on poor families with disabled people. To implement the “Poverty Alleviation and Development Program for Rural People with Disabilities (2011-2020)”, CDPF and the Press and Publication Administration of the People's Republic of China decided to promote Jiangxi Province’s practice across the country and select poor disabled people to act as rural libraries’ administrators in the regions with certain conditions and introduced the “Circular on the Recruitment of Rural Poor Disabled Persons As the Administrators of Rural Libraries” (Can Lian [2012] No. 27).
As for the recruitment of disabled people as rural libraries’ administrators, the disabled person shall personally apply for the position or be recommended by village disabled persons’ federation. After first review by the village committee or township disabled persons’ federation and the approval of the county disabled persons’ federation and press and publication administration departments, the application shall be reported to the city disabled persons’ federation and press and publication administration department for record. The recruitment shall be conducted under the principle of openness, impartiality and fairness and relevant results must be publicly announced in the village for seven days before being reported to higher authorities. The “Circular” also put forward four specific requirements for the recruitment work.
【Field survey on rural poor people with disabilities】 To make clear how many poor people with disabilities there are in the rural areas living below the new poverty line, in March 2012, CDPF made deployments for various regions to carry out field survey on the situation of rural poor residents with disabilities, laying a foundation for accelerating the overall development of the causes of disabled people. In mid-September, we organized special training courses, launched the real-name information management system for the poor disabled and required various regions to enter the investigation results into the database. More than 14.8 million pieces of information were entered into the rural poor disabled persons’ information management system.
(Li Zhe, Department of Education and Employment, China Disabled Persons’ Federation)
Poverty Alleviation of All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce
【Overview】 In 2012, to earnestly implement No.16 Document of Central Government and to promote the healthy development of non-public economy and non-public economy individuals, in accordance with the spirit of the central work conference on poverty alleviation and development and the requirements of the “Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)”, All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC) carried out in-depth investigations and researches, made active innovations to the service carriers, explored work ideas, strengthened guidance on the work of grassroots federations of industry and commerce, strengthened cooperation with relevant government departments and social organizations, effectively performed its functions based on its advantages and characteristics, encouraged, guided and supported non-public economy to play a positive role in rural poverty alleviation and development, steadily promoted the relevant work and achieved remarkable results.
In 2012, in the development-oriented poverty alleviation (Glorious Cause), fixed-point poverty alleviation, recruitment-based poverty alleviation, new rural construction (co-construction by villages and enterprises) and poverty alleviation by social welfare, All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC) actively explored the establishment of various modes for development-oriented poverty alleviation, adhered to the combination of effectiveness, demonstration and guidance of poverty alleviation and development, attached importance to the cultivation of awareness of poor farmers for shaking off poverty and strove to improve their quality and self-development capacity.
【Poverty relief in designated and key regions】 1. Earnestly carried out field research and strove to make clear the law for ACFIC to guide the participation of non-public economy in poverty alleviation and development. On the basis of in-depth research and extensive collection of historical data, in June 2012, we completed the preparation of "Improving People's Livelihood by Glorious Cause and Working Together to Promote Development –ACFIC’s Participation in the Construction of Zhijin County of Bijie Experimental Zone", and summarized and reviewed the history, practices and experience of ACFIC’s fixed-point poverty alleviation in Zhijin County of Guizhou Province since the implementation of the “Seven-Year Priority Poverty Alleviation Program”, which are historical data of ACFIC’s participation in the construction of Bijie Experimental Zone.
In July 2012, ACFIC sent relevant persons to conduct questionnaire survey on 110 rural households and 50 small and micro enterprises in 14 villages and 30 towns of Zhijin County, and held a number of seminars, forming the “Research Report on Zhijin County – To Explore Path for Farmers’ Income Growth and County Economic Development in Underdeveloped Areas”.
To encourage private enterprises to invest in the development of rural financial market, from June to September 2012, we carried out field research on “Investment of Private Capital in Rural Finance of Contiguous Poor Areas”, forming the “Policy Suggestions on Increasing Private Investment in Rural Financial Market”.
2. Explored the implementation of poverty alleviation and development by new rural financial services. In February 2012, ACFIC donated 5 million yuan of relief funds to set up "Zhijin County Care • Financing Assurance Center for Farmer Assisting by Glorious Cause" with 5 million yuan of matching funds from Zhijin County government. Through local rural credit cooperatives, the loan size was amplified to 50 million yuan. We entrusted Zhijin County Federation of Industry and Commerce to took the lead in management and provide financing guarantee for local rural areas to develop production, industrial projects and small and micro agricultural enterprises.
In April 2012, ACFIC donated 10 million yuan of aid funds for the Glorious Cause in Yilong County of Sichuan Province and local government issued matching funds of 10 million yuan to jointly establish the “Yilong County Financing Assurance Center for Assisting Farmers by Glorious Cause” to provide financing guarantee services for ACFIC’s local anti-poverty projects and small and micro agricultural enterprises.
3. Held trainings of township cadres to provide intellectual support for the development of poor areas. In May 2012, ACFIC and China Minsheng Banking Corporation Ltd jointly organized the "Tenth Training Course for Township Cadres of ACFIC". 80 township cadres from eight counties and districts in Bijie City of Guizhou Province as well as Bazhong City and Yilong County of Sichuan Province received a one-week training.
4. Sent one deputy division head to support the fixed-point poverty alleviation in Zhijin County.
5. Held the plenary meeting of ACFIC Poverty Alleviation Committee. In November 2012, the fourth plenary meeting of ACFIC Poverty Alleviation Committee was convened in Beijing, which summarized the anti-poverty work over the years and the poverty reduction effects, and made deployments for the anti-poverty work in the new stage.
【Poverty alleviation by Glorious Cause】 1. Issued guidance on the poverty alleviation and development in the new stage. To conscientiously implement the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Strengthening and Improving the Work of ACFIC Under the New Situation" and the "Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China's Rural Areas (2011-2020)", ACFIC encouraged, guided and organized non-public economy to play an important role in rural poverty alleviation and development and make a new contribution to the realization of the goal of building a moderately prosperous society by 2020. On. May 3, ACFIC and China Society for Promotion of the Guangcai Programme (CSPGP) jointly issued the "Opinions on Encouraging and Guiding Non-public Economy to Participate in Rural Poverty Alleviation and Development (2011-2020)".
2. Actively implemented Guangcai Programme for poverty alleviation. In March 2012, ACFIC allocated 3 million yuan of the “West Guangcai Programme Aid Fund” to support the construction of 2000 “Guangcai Water Cellars” in Tongwei County of Gansu Province. The projects were completed in July 2012, solved the drinking water problem of 10,000 rural residents and 15,000 heads of livestock in 24 natural villages of three towns and improved the production and living conditions of local residents.
In February 2012, ACFIC allocated one million yuan of the “West Guangcai Programme Aid Fund” as working fund of poverty alleviation to support the construction of green vegetable industrial poverty alleviation project in Erdaoying Village, Changshanyu Town, Luanping County, Hebei Province and helped 21 poor households in this village to rebuild the vegetable greenhouses, dig 11 wells and purchase 18 folding machines. After that, it is estimated that the annual increase in per greenhouse output per household will reach 1000-1500 kg and the annual income growth will be 3000 yuan per household.
In April 2012, ACFIC allocated two million yuan of the “West Guangcai Programme Aid Fund” to support the construction of drinking water projects in Zhike Town of Gangba County in Shigatse Region and Jiayu Town of Longzi County in Shannan Region of Tibet, addressing the drinking water problem of 315 people and 1500 heads of livestock of 80 households in the project area of Jiayu Town of Longzi County and increasing effective irrigating area of 1950 mu.
In November 2012, ACFIC allocated one million yuan of the “West Guangcai Programme Aid Fund” to set up mutual fund for Guangcai production in Akeyaer Village of Jiagasitai Town in Qapqal County to build village clinics and cultural rooms.
In February 2012, ACFIC donated 200 household solar power systems worth one million yuan to the herdsmen in Altay Prefecture of Xinjiang, and completed the installation in late February. After that, ACFIC coordinated China Minsheng Banking Corp. Ltd to invest 2.2 million yuan, continued to order 400 household solar power systems from Kunshan May Solar Energy Co., Ltd through “Guangcai Livelihood Project” and issued the facilities to some farmers and herdsmen in Altay Prefecture of Xinjiang free of charge.
3. Supported the economic development in impoverished regions through conducting Guangcai activities. In September 2012, ACFIC organized private businesses to participate in the second China-Eurasia Expo held in Xinjiang and sign 125 projects, accounting for 73.53% of the total. The project value was 134.819 billion yuan and the projects mainly involved mineral development, building materials, light industry and metallurgy, tourism, trade flows, real estate, etc.
In April 2012, jointly with the National Population and Family Planning Commission (NPFPC) and China Society for Promotion of the Guangcai Programme (CSPGP), we launched the “New Rural Family Plan – Tongxin · Happy Family Project in Tibet and the Tibetan Areas of Four Provinces”, covering 228 towns, 1700 villages, 270,000 rural households, 1.5 million people in 21 counties in Tibet and the Tibetan areas of four provinces, including 1.2 million Tibetan people, and 18,000 babies newly born every year. The project mainly provided propaganda materials and platforms for the newborns, families of pregnant and lying-in women and grassroots medical workers, including "Health Care Package for Newborns", "Chinese-Tibetan Bilingual Cultural Package", "Family Package", etc., and held trainings of grassroots project personnel.
In July 2012, we organized more than 230 private entrepreneurs from all over China to participate in the "China Guangcai Yanbian Activity". During the event, 35 project contracts and 7 agreements worth 86.63 billion yuan were signed and 24.9 million yuan was donated to support the reconstruction of dangerous houses of the dependants of martyrs in Yanbian.
In August 2012, we organized more than 400 private entrepreneurs from all over China to participate in the "China Guangcai Ningxia Activity". During the event, 142 projects were signed with a total investment of 206.002 billion yuan. The private entrepreneurs from all over China donated 31.2 million yuan to the wolfberry planting base of Tongde ecological migration project area in Wuzhong City, and donated 10 million yuan of relief funds to Ningxia Hui Autonomous Regions.
In November 2012, we organized 30 chambers of commerce directly affiliated to ACFIC to sign strategic development cooperation framework agreements with 18 key counties for national poverty alleviation and development of Gansu Province under the principle of "industry guidance and leadership, project cooperation for development", adopting the new mode of "business investment and cooperation for a win-win situation". Meanwhile, the chambers of commerce directly affiliated to ACFIC also signed nine projects worth 2.109 billion yuan with 18 counties, cities and districts, involving energy, chemical industry and building materials. Eleventh CPPCC National Committee Vice Chairman and ACFIC Chairman Huang Mengfu attended the signing ceremony.
【Promoting employment and reemployment】 From May 8 to 14, 2012, ACFIC, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Education and All-China Federation of Trade Unions jointly organized the cities above county level in 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across China to carry out the activity of ("2012 National Private Enterprises Recruitment Week". According to statistics, 238,000 private enterprises participate in the event and provided nearly 3.26 million pieces of job information, and 970,000 job seekers reached an employment intention with the employers, involving 630,000 college and technical secondary school graduates, 260,000 migrant farmers and 80,000 other types of job seekers. A total of 3.65 million copies of policy advocacy materials were issued on the event and rights protection and legal aid were provided for 140,000 person-times.
【Poverty alleviation by social welfare】 In April 2012, China Red Ribbon Foundation launched the "Red Ribbon Health Kit Distribution Activity 2012". Relevant principals of the federations of industry and commerce, AIDS Prevention Offices and the Communist Youth League offices of 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, representatives of migrant workers, representatives of volunteers of Youth Red Ribbon Society from universities in Beijing and representatives of news media attended the event. During this event, we distributed a total of 180,400 Red Ribbon Health Kits to 180,000 migrant workers in 27 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and nearly 5,000 volunteers from over 210 universities nationwide took part in the activity. Eleventh CPPCC National Committee Vice Chairman and ACFIC Chairman Huang Mengfu attended the kick-off meeting.
In September 2012, Medical & Pharmaceutical Commercial Association of All-China Federation of Industry & Commerce carried out the drug donation activity of “Thanksgiving to Society, Care for Tibetan Areas in Yunnan” and organized its members to donate inspection equipment and gynecological drugs worth 1.58 million yuan to the Tibetan farmers and herdsmen living in the northern regions of Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Diqing of Yunnan Province.
(All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce)
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