Ⅲ. Local Poverty Alleviation III
【Poverty alleviation targets】In 2013, Zhejiang Province carried out a new round of identification of low-income rural households and key villages for poverty reduction, identified a total of 1.764 million low-income rural households and 4.174 million low-income people, of whom 1.34 million rural households and 3.189 million people lived below the provincial poverty line (4600 yuan in 2010). The key counties supported by the province also identified 5,000 key villages for provincial poverty reduction. According to the unified deployment of the provincial government, the counties established an electronic database on the information of the key villages and low-income rural households to understand the basic situation and support needs of the key villages and low-income rural households, laying a foundation for the improvement of the pertinence of anti-poverty work and the implementation of precise poverty alleviation.
【Poverty alleviation reform】The province promoted the construction of the experimental
zone for poverty alleviation reform in Lishui City to promote rural population aggregation and accelerate the system renovation for relocation-based poverty alleviation, industrial poverty alleviation and social poverty alleviation. In the pilot area for reform, the province accelerated the reforms related to the household registration system to separate relevant policies with the household nature, gradually cancel the division of agricultural households and non-agricultural households and establish a unified household system –"resident household system". Through "asset and capital verification, household situation investigation, member identification, shareholder identification, indeed the right confirmation, platform building and flow standardization", we accelerated the reform of the rural collective property rights system. Meanwhile, we explored the transfer of rural right to the use of curtilage between villages in the county under the premise of "rural residence land ownership unchanged" and "one residence for one household", explored the "dual management and community model" for farmers’ ex-situ relocation; launched forest right mortgage loan programs and explored the provision of new mortgage loans; introduced the Interim Measures on Management of land management right mortgage loans and the Interim Measures on Management of rural housing mortgage loans, and actively explored innovations on rural land transfer and contract for the management right and rural mortgage loans. As a result, all basic property rights of farmers could be mortgaged and a complete rural property financing system was basically established.
【Field research】The province vigorously carried out field survey and research on the poverty alleviation legislation and reform as well as pro-poor policies to promote the implementation of relevant work, organized the investigation and analysis of low-income rural households and key villages for poverty reduction and the recommendation of innovation cases of anti-poverty work in the province as well, and successively issued the “Research Report on the Low-income Rural Households and Key Villages for Poverty Reduction in Zhejiang Province” and the “Report on Innovation Cases of Poverty Alleviation and Development in Zhejiang province –Stories in Building A Well-off Society”.
【Poverty alleviation training】We vigorously organized trainings on poverty alleviation and held three special trainings on poverty-relief cadres and special poverty reduction programs, and held three national trainings organized by LGOP in Zhejiang Province (namely the training on program preparation of national pilot areas for poverty alleviation, the 8th training of young and middle-aged people of LGOP and the workshop on national poverty alleviation system building”. The Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office and Zhejiang University jointly held the Fourth China-Africa Forum on Poverty Reduction and Development.
【Poverty alleviation publicity】In mid-July, the China-Africa Forum on Poverty Reduction
and Development was held in Hangzhou of Zhejiang, and Xinhua News Agency, China News Network, China Network, Zhejiang Daily, Zhejiang Online and Farmers' Daily reported the event. On September 1, LGOP’s “Poverty Alleviation in China” reported the e-commerce service for village poverty reduction in Zhejiang Province. In October, at the work conference on the improvement of domestic living environment, some mainstream media such as the CCTV news and People’s Daily reported Zhejiang Province’s project of “demonstration of one thousand villages and governance of ten thousand villages”. Relying on the “Rural Work News”, we actively publicized the implementation of new rural construction in less developed areas of Zhejiang and successively printed a number of articles including the “Positive Role of Beautiful Countryside in Zhejiang Province”, “Construction of Beautiful Countryside in Zhejiang Province” and “News on Rural Areas in Zhejiang - Again.Spring.Wind.Blows”, etc.
(Yang Yeyong, Zhejiang Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office)
Poverty Alleviation and Development in Anhui Province
【Overview】In 2013, under the guidance of the spirit of Fuping Speech of General Secretary
Xi Jinping, Anhui Province seriously implemented the spirit of the national poverty alleviation and
development picture phone meeting and, taking the national contiguous poor area Dabie Mountain
Area and the provincial contiguous poor area North Anhui as the main battlefields, vigorously implemented the large-scale poverty alleviation strategy combining special poverty alleviation, industrial poverty alleviation and social poverty alleviation. Throughout the year, the poverty-stricken people were reduced by 1.059 million and the rural per capita net income of the 20 key counties reached 6200 yuan, up 18% or so, five percentage points above the national average. The province achieved remarkable results in poverty alleviation and development.
【Investment of poverty-relief funds】In 2013, Anhui Province issued financial anti-poverty funds of 1.29 billion yuan, up 18%, of which 1.02 billion yuan (not including Food for Word fund, minority development fund, poor forest farm and agricultural reclamation fund) was from the central government, 160 million yuan was from the provincial government and 110 million yuan was from the municipal and county governments. In 2013, Anhui Province invested anti-poverty funds of 499 million yuan and 484 million yuan respectively for the contiguous poor areas in Dabie Mountain Area and northern regions of the province.
【Management of poverty-relief funds】In 2013, in strict accordance with the range of application of anti-poverty funds, Anhui Province effectively carried out anti-poverty project review and record, further improved the poverty-relief fund and project publicity system and strengthened social supervision. Meanwhile, we clarified the annual targets and tasks, strengthened management by objectives and promoted the performance evaluation of anti-poverty funds. Zhejiang Province was named Grade A in the performance evaluation of anti-poverty funds organized by LGOP and the Ministry of Finance in 2012. In 2013, we organized 70 counties (districts, cities) with anti-poverty tasks to carry out self-inspection and self-correction on the use of central and provincial anti-poverty funds managed or participated by poverty alleviation departments from 2010 to 2013 and, on this basis, the provincial poverty alleviation office organized inspection on the anti-poverty work in 12 of the 43 national and provincial key counties (including contiguous poor areas, districts and counties) and the counties continuously enjoying support policy, and put forward suggestions on rectification. Meanwhile, based on the use of pilot funds for the reform of Rain Plan implementation mode, we held a special forum and introduced specific regulations to further standardize the use and supervision of anti-poverty funds.
【Poverty alleviation in contiguous poor areas】In 2013, Anhui Province formulated and
implemented the “Planning for Regional Development and Poverty Reduction in Dabie Mountain
Area of Anhui Province” and, on this basis, prepared the “Industrial Poverty Alleviation Planning 2011-2015 for Dabie Mountain Area of Anhui Province”; planned to invest 61.44 billion yuan for the program and, approved by LGOP, the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Forestry Administration and the National Tourism Administration, launched the projects. In 2013, the GDP of Dabie Mountain Area in Anhui Province witnessed an average annual growth of 10.6%, per capita expenditure on education, health care and social insurance was 1564 yuan, the urbanization rate was 44.7%, the urban per capita disposable income and the rural per capita net income respectively witnessed an average annual growth of 13.5% and 14.1%, the nine-year compulsory education consolidation rate was 99%, the gross high school enrollment rate was 91.2%, the new rural cooperative medical system’s participation rate reached 96.5%, the energy consumption and water consumption of the regions with GDP exceeding ten thousand yuan was 0.66 tons of coal and 50 cubic meters respectively and the forest coverage rate reached 32.5%. 99.5% of the administrative villages were equipped with clinics, 86.5% of the rural residents obtained access to safe drinking water, 97% of the administrative villages built asphalt (cement) roads and the poverty situation of Dabie Mountain Area was significantly improved.
【Entire village advancement】In 2013, Anhui Province continued to implement the project
of “entire advancement of one thousand villages” and launched the entire village advancement
projects in 1016 impoverished villages (including 167 villages covered by the National 12th Five-
Year Plan for entire village advancement). To achieve the overall objective of “six accesses”
(access to asphalt (cement) roads, electricity, broadcasting and TV program, Internet service, telex
and postal services) and “12 possessions” (safe drinking water, safe housing, one featured leading industry, high-yield stable basic farmland or income-generating industry, poverty-relief mutual-aid society, pre-school education, clinic, cultural room and farmers’ reading room, sanitary latrine, physical fitness and culture venues, methane and farmers’ supermarket), the province put in a total of 1.75 billion yuan (of which 720 million yuan was financial anti-poverty funds, 780 million yuan was integrated funds of various sectors and 250 million yuan was labor services of the masses and other funds) and completed the construction of 2697 poverty-relief projects; built and renovated roads of 3647 km, built 1045 independent bridges and culverts, implemented 1457 farmland and water conservancy facility projects, increased basic farmland of 51,000 mu, improved farmland irrigation area of 550,000 mu, newly constructed 277 drinking water projects to solve the drinking water problem of 300,000 people and 280,000 heads of livestock, repaired 1445 toilets and built 7035 biogas digesters and 82 garbage disposal plants. Meanwhile, developed economic fruit trees of 204,000 mu, grew vegetables of 294,000 mu, bred 4.8 million chickens, ducks, gooses and sheep and 1.21 million pigs and cows, supported the establishment of 250 farmers’ cooperatives, supported the cultivation of 55 national and provincial poverty alleviation leading enterprises in key villages; newly built and renovated 46 primary and secondary schools, newly built and renovated 141 village-level family planning service centers, set up 205 cultural activity venues, held labor transfer trainings for 42,000 people and practical skills trainings for 148,000 people and subsidized 31,724 needy students.
【Ex-situ relocation for poverty alleviation】In 2013, Anhui Province insisted on the responsibility system of "unified leadership of party committee, full responsibility under the government, centralized sector operations and concrete implementation by grassroots organizations" and established the poverty-relief relocation mechanism of "graded responsibility taking, task decomposition at all levels, linkage between upper and lower authorities and joint promotion". organized relocation within villages with village team as the unit, organized relocation activities with administrative village as the unit and increased financial inputs in the construction of resettlement points for relocated residents. In 2013, Anhui Province invested 78.56 million yuan (including financial anti-poverty funds of 28 million yuan) to support the poverty-relief relocation projects in 17 counties (of which nine were national key counties for poverty alleviation and development) and relocated and resettled 6848 people from 1956 households, significantly improving the production conditions, living environment and quality of life of the relocated people, fundamentally changing their lifestyle and improving their living standards.
【Industry poverty alleviation】In 2013, through substituting subsidies with rewards, Anhui
Province supported poor rural households to develop planting, breeding and processing projects;
allocated 25 million yuan of special funds to support 250 farmers’ cooperative organizations and
enhance the enthusiasm of the poor for participating in industrial development; arranged financial
discount funds of 27.41 million yuan and issued 1.7 billion yuan in fact to support the development of enterprises in poor areas and boost industrial development; arranged small loan discount funds of 9.5 million yuan of rural households and actually issued 220 million yuan of loans to support the production development of poverty-stricken rural households. Meanwhile, we strengthened the cooperation with relevant financial agencies, explored the establishment of credit poverty alleviation by the Agricultural Bank of China and the Export-import Bank of China, allocated financial discount funds of 45 million yuan to encourage the issuance of poverty-relief loans of 1.5 billion yuan, including one billion yuan of loans issued by the e Agricultural Bank of China and 500 million yuan of loans issued by the Export-import Bank of China, which played a positive role in improving the financial environment and boosting the development of leading industries in impoverished areas.
【Rain Plan】In 2013, Anhui Province launched the Rain Plan in 43 key counties (districts)
for poverty alleviation and development (including 12 counties in Dabie Mountain Area, 8 in other
areas, 11 key counties for provincial poverty alleviation and development and 12 counties continuously enjoying the support policy) and put in a total of 64.8408 million yuan in the program, up 33.35%, accounting for 10% of the first batch of provincial funds for the counties, completed education subsidy and labor transfer training for 42878 people, held practical skills trainings for 150796 people in poor areas, provided subsidies for trainings of 7598 people, significantly raised the needy student and labor transfer training subsidy standards, significantly improved the quality of training and successfully completed the annual task of Rain Plan. Meanwhile, we provided subsidies of 47.568 million yuan for 31724 people in seven counties - the pilot areas for the reform of the Rain Plan implementation mode, including Linquan County, Shouxian County, etc.
【Pilot areas of poverty alleviation】In 2013, Anhui Province, according to the principle of "consolidating the achievements, steady progress, strengthening management and standardized operation", Anhui Province effectively increased efforts on the pilot work of mutual funds in impoverished villages, further unified and improved the capital operation mode and procedures and improved the internal management and external management mechanisms to promote the institutionalization and standardization of the mutual funds. For the institutionalization of capital investment, the province continued to arrange 25 million yuan for the pilot work, arranged specialized working staff and agencies for the program and guaranteed the operation funding. In 2013, the province established 2030 poverty-relief mutual-aid societies in 30 counties (districts) and invested 302.427 million yuan (including financial anti-poverty funds of 244.5 million yuan) for the program. 137,294 rural households joined the mutual-aid societies and a total of 735.65 million yuan was lent. Meanwhile, we promoted the implementation of the public lottery fund projects, promoted the inspection and acceptance of the relevant projects in Yuexi County, accelerated the implementation of projects in Shitai County and launched the relevant projects in Dangshan County, Shucheng County and Yu’an District.
【Food for work】In 2013, Anhui Province vigorously promoted the implementation of the
project of Food for Work, strengthened supervision on the work and, through implementing planned quarterly reporting system and on-site inspection, further promoted the work, achieving good results. In the whole year, Anhui Province developed and issued four batches of investment programs with a total investment of 614.1 million yuan, of which 324 million yuan was national funds for Food for Work and 290.1 million yuan was local governments’ matching funds. The first batch of program included 34 demonstration projects with a total planned investment of 101.15 million yuan; the second batch included 19 pilot projects of relocation with a total investment of 54 million yuan; the third batch included 20 pilot projects of integrated development in contiguous poor areas with a total investment of 281.97 million yuan; and the fourth batch included 436 projects of Food for work within the fiscal budget with a total investment of 176.98 million yuan. These funds were continuously invested in the Dabie Mountain Area, old revolutionary base areas, reservoir areas and the flood plans along the Huaihe River, mainly supporting rural road building, small farmland and water conservancy projects, relocation and pilot projects of integrated development in contiguous poor areas in key counties for national poverty alleviation, effectively promoting the development of poor areas.
【Poverty alleviation by science and technology】In 2013, Anhui Province continued to
promote the construction of pilot projects of poverty alleviation by science and technology, organized inspection and acceptance of the Shihu Seedling Propagation Base Project in Dabie Mountain of Jinzhai County and the technology demonstration project of efficient ecological crab breeding in Susong County, and steadily accelerated the implementation of the improved tea tree planting and organic tea demonstration base construction projects of Anhui Swan Technology Industrial (Group) Co., Ltd. In Yuexi County.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】In 2013, after arranging 31 provincial leaders to contact
31 key counties for poverty alleviation and development, Anhui Provincial Committee issued the
“Opinions on Strengthening the Party Leadership’s Contacting with Impoverished Regions” (Wan Fa No.[2013] 12) and established the working system for provincial leaders and provincial units to contact and serve the five cities in northern areas and Dabie Mountain Area. A total of 15 central, state organs and relevant units (hereinafter referred to as the central organs) were involved in the fixed-point poverty alleviation in Anhui Province and 18 cadres were sent to poor areas to support the anti-poverty work. A total of 1867 provincial, municipal and county (city, district) organs were assigned the task of fixed-point poverty alleviation and 1378 cadres were sent to poor areas for the work. The provincial, municipal and county governments sent a total of 11828 people to carry out field research in the poor areas. The central organs and the provincial, municipal and county aid units directly put in relief funds of 148.936 million yuan (including materials) to help introduce 2.136517 billion yuan of various funds (including paid and voluntary contributions), which was mainly used to support the infrastructure construction, industrial development, investment in education, cultural activities, health care, grassroots organization construction, training, disaster relief and other warmth-delivery activities, and helped the poor areas introduce 910 projects, greatly improving the backwardness situation of poor areas.
【South-north pairing-off poverty alleviation】In 2013, Hefei and Wuhu City of Anhui
Province held trainings for 38,000 teachers and 24 department cadres of the twinned cities and
counties. Wanjiang and the relevant cities and counties put in 13.4 billion yuan to support the infrastructure construction of the jointly-established parks. Hefei signed purchase and marketing contracts valued one billion yuan with Fuyang and Liu’an City, and the Hua Tuo Bozhou Technician College set up with support from Wuhu City was put into operation. The South-north pairing-off poverty alleviation work system was gradually set up, the pairing-off poverty reduction area was constantly expanded, a lot of results were achieved in the industrial economic and trade cooperation, the exchange of cadres and talents, the construction of key projects and the development of social undertakings, initially forming a good trend of beneficial interaction and cooperation between the northern areas and Wanjiang Region of Anhui Province.
【Poverty alleviation by army and armed police forces】In 2013, Anhui Province People's
Armed Police Corps actively cooperated with local governments to carry out all types of education and training activities, sent a total of 80 after-school counsellors to hold military trainings for more than 1000 students of Fuyang No. 1 Middle School and Fuyang No.15 Middle School, held more than 20 trainings on national defense for more than 3,000 person-times; and allocated special poverty-relief funds of 100,000 yuan to purchase 20 desktop computers and other school supplies and books for Mazhai Township Primary School and Wangdian Township Primary School. In addition, we organized officers and soldiers to do cleaning and wash clothes for the elderly living in nursing homes every month, distributed brochures on health knowledge, provided consulting services for the treatment of common diseases and seasonal diseases, and regularly organized the officers and men to carry out voluntary blood donation activities. In the whole year, we arranged more than 300 officers and soldiers to participate in the overall control of social order in Yinzhou District and cooperate with the public security department to combat illegal criminal activities, and actively undertook temporary task of armed patrols in the city for 27 times, making a contribution to the public security of local area.
【Poverty alleviation institution and team building】In 2013, Anhui Province further
strengthened the organizational construction of poverty alleviation system, strengthened the assessment of poverty alleviation system and took the construction of poverty alleviation system as an important part of the annual assessment work. Continuously enriched provincial poverty alleviation and development agency force, set up strong leadership and arranged a large number of working staff to expand the poverty alleviation team; actively guided poverty alleviation departments at all levels to strengthen learning, organized 30 grassroots workers of poverty alleviation offices to register for examination of MPA program for poor areas jointly set up by the national cadre training center for poor areas and China Agricultural University; further strengthened the construction of ideology, work style, integrity and effectiveness, and strictly implemented the eight stipulations of the central government and the 30 regulations of the provincial government, providing a strong impetus for the province's spiritual poverty alleviation and development work.
(Guo Qifeng, Anhui Province Poverty Alleviation and Development Office)
Poverty Alleviation and Development in Fujian Province
【Overview】In 2013, according to the requirements of “enriching the masses and creating a beautiful environment”, Fujian Province increased efforts on poverty alleviation, strengthened policy support, highlighted key points for poverty alleviation, increased investment of anti-poverty funds, improved the poverty alleviation mechanism and achieved good results in rural poverty alleviation and development. The provincial anti-poverty funds amounted to 664 million yuan in 2013, up 11.9%, and the city and county governments’ matching funds reached 398 million yuan, up 43.98%. The province completed the relocation of 50,000 households and 20,000 people, arranged 50 million yuan of interest discount funds for microfinance to encourage the issuance of bank loans of one billion yuan, and allocated 8 million yuan for Rain Plan, training more than 40,000 people. The 23 provincial key counties for poverty alleviation and development achieved a GDP of 199.649 billion yuan, up 12.43%, 1.43 percentage points above the provincial average; the total fiscal revenue amounted to 13.048 billion yuan, up 14.42%, almost at the provincial average of 14.5%; the local fiscal revenue amounted to 8.987 billion yuan, up 21.64%, 3.14 percentage points above the provincial average of 18.5%; and the farmers’ per capita net income was 9666 yuan, up 12.9%, 0.7 percentage points above the provincial average.
【Investment of poverty-relief funds】In 2013, the provincial, municipal and city governments allocated 1.06233 billion yuan of special anti-poverty funds, with an increase of 192.25 million yuan over 2012, of which 664.45 million yuan was provincial anti-poverty funds, 70.7 million yuan more than the budget. A total of 810 million yuan was invested in the renovation of dilapidated houses, of which 560 million yuan was provincial financial funds, 50 million yuan was subsidies for people with disabilities, 195 million yuan was central government’s subsidies for renovation of dilapidated houses, and 50 million yuan was matching funds issued by the Provincial Development and Reform Commission and the transportation departments. As for the use of the funds, 686 million yuan was directly issued to poor households and 100 million yuan was subsidies for infrastructure construction in provincial resettlement areas, encouraging the issuance of municipal financial funds of 47.99 million yuan, county financial funds of 190 million yuan, township financial funds of 480 million yuan and self-raised funds of 5.163 billion yuan of the masses. A total of 6.691 billion yuan was invested in the renovation of dilapidated houses. 2.294 billion yuan of relief funds was directly issued to provincial key counties for poverty alleviation and development, 6.06 billion yuan was issued for credit poverty reduction and 2.29 billion yuan was issued to key villages for poverty reduction. A total of 50 million yuan of small credit loan discount funds was allocated, encouraging the issuance of one billion yuan of bank loans, and 8 million yuan of special funds was issued for the implementation of the Rain Plan.
【Management of poverty-relief funds】All kinds of anti-poverty funds were mainly used to support the key counties, key villages and impoverished households for poverty alleviation and development, mainly for the projects of relocation, entire village advancement, labor trainings, industrialization poverty alleviation and microfinance. First, clarified the usage of the funds. Divided the poverty-relief funds of the province into industrial poverty alleviation funds, ex-situ relocation subsidy funds, subsidized microcredit funds and special funds for poverty reduction training, and clarified the usage of various types of funds to ensure that earmarked funds are used for specified purposes. Second, made innovations to the fund issuance ways. Based on actual situations, the poverty-relief funds were mainly issued in two ways: First, divided the key counties and key villages for poverty reduction in groups and issued the anti-poverty funds for each group; Second, the subsidy funds were issued directly to the poor households through bank transfer. Third, strictly followed the procedures for the use of anti-poverty funds. As for the use of all poverty-relief funds, we implemented the project publicity system, established the project responsibility system and standardized the operating procedures to ensure the project quality and efficiency and make them play a positive role in reducing poverty. Fourth, strengthened supervision and inspection. Poverty alleviation departments at all levels cooperate with the Audit Office to audit the financial anti-poverty funds of the province every other year, the Provincial Department of Finance organizes performance evaluation of major projects every year, the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office organizes annual inspection or sample check on the poverty-relief fund projects and takes the inspection contents as an important basis for the allocation of poverty-relief funds in the whole province.
【Ex-situ relocation for poverty alleviation】In 2013, the province continued to take
poverty-relief relocation-based public welfare projects as the practical projects for the provincial
government to launch. In the whole year, it completed the relocation of 50,110 households and 207,210 people, and supported the infrastructure construction in 100 provincial welfare projects areas with more than 100 households. A total of 810 million yuan was invested for the program, of which 686 million yuan was directly issued to the poor households and 100 million yuan was provincial subsidies for infrastructure construction in the resettlement areas. The issuance of the central and provincial financial funds encouraged the investment of local government funds and the masses. The city governments put in financial funds of 47.99 million yuan, the county governments put in 190 million yuan, the township government issued 480 million yuan the masses raised 5.163 billion yuan. As a result, the total investment to the renovation of dilapidated houses in the province amounted to 6.691 billion yuan. Through the construction of the relocation projects, we moved the masses away from mountain areas, fundamentally solved their difficulties in seeing a doctor and going to school, significantly improved the public service levels, reduced deforestation and waste discharge of the original residences, protected the sources of rivers and maintained the ecological balance. The income of the relocated masses witnessed an average annual growth of more than 15% and their living conditions were significantly improved.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】In 2013, the province continued to take the 23 provincial
key counties for poverty alleviation and development as the key targets of its anti-poverty work,
arranged one or two provincial leaders to contact each key county, four provincial or central units
in Fujian, one central or provincial enterprise and one coastal county (city, district) to provide counterpart support, determined the support projects, issued aid funds, provided personnel support to accelerate the infrastructure construction in the counties, cultivated featured advantageous industries and concentrated the financial and material resources on the implementation of a large number of education, health, cultural, employment and social security projects. In 2013, a total of 756 aid projects were launched in 23 key counties for poverty reduction with direct aid funds of 2.294 billion yuan and credit poverty reduction funds of 6.06 billion yuan, and 154 trainings were held for 12,634 people. The GDP of the 23 key counties amounted to 199.649 billion yuan, up 12.43%, 1.43 percentage points above the provincial average; the total fiscal revenue reached 13.048 billion yuan, up 14.42%, almost at the provincial average level of 14.5%; local fiscal revenue reached 8.9787 billion yuan, up 21.64%, 3.14 percentage points above the provincial average; and the rural per capita net income amounted to 9666 yuan, up 12.9%, 0.7 percentage points above the provincial average.
【Entire village advancement】2013 is the last year for Fujian Province’s third round of entire village advancement. The provinces continued to implement the entire village advancement projects through “department linkage, cadres’ village staying and capital binding” to promote the development of 1661 provincial, city and county-level key villages for poverty alleviation and
development. Over the past year, a total of 2.29 billion yuan was invested in the key villages for the construction of 29098 projects, of which 220 provincial key villages raised poverty relief funds of 1.021 billion yuan for the implementation of 1341 projects. Completed 290 economic development projects in rural areas, increased 7526 mu of land consolidation area, 4893 mu of transformed farmland area, 19700 mu of cash crop area and 20700 bamboo and forest area; developed 79 specialized farmer cooperatives and held practical technical training for 31,300 people in rural areas, enhancing rural economic development potential. Improved 677 production and living facility projects, hardened 512 kilometers of roads, expand the safe drinking water system to newly cover 58400 people and the lighting system to newly cover 10300 people, increased computerized telephones for 6815 people, moved 5844 people for public welfare project; completed the construction of 374 social advance projects, 58 sports and health projects for farmers, newly built or renovated 60400 square meters of farmers’ cultural activity centers and 64300 square meters of schools, donated 152,000 books, subsidized 2151 needy students and delivered condolence to 9882 people.
【Microfinance for poverty alleviation】In 2013, Fujian Province arranged 55.5056 million
yuan of special funds as petty loan interest subsidies for the 23 provincial key counties to implement microfinance interest discount projects and 37.79 million yuan was allocated, accounting for 68% of the total. Meanwhile, we actively explored the establishment of a new mechanism for poverty-relief microcredit service and transferred discount funds as guarantee and risk guarantee funds and solved the difficulty of the poor in obtaining loans, achieving the triple-win situation – farmers had capital for production development, the efficiency of financial anti-poverty funds was amplified and the risks of financial agencies were shared. In addition, we launched pilot projects of small loan guarantee in 11 counties and the governments at all levels issued risk guarantee funds of 70 million yuan to guarantee the loans of more than 300 million yuan for more than 20,000 poor households. As a result, the per household income of these poor households increased by more than 4000 yuan.
【Social poverty alleviation】Giving play to the role of enterprises in poverty alleviation, advocated enterprises to assume social responsibility and establish the mechanism for common development with impoverished villages under the principle of "mutual benefit and two-way interaction", aiming to promote the entrepreneurship of poverty-stricken households, promote the employment of poor labors and increase the income of poor households through the development of leading industries. Giving play to the advantages of the Communist Youth League, women's federations and democratic parties in various poverty reduction activities, organized the implementation of anti-poverty activities in various forms, including the "Project Hope", Young Volunteers", "Happiness Project", "Spring Bud Student Aiding Activity", "Glorious Cause", "Women Action for Poverty Reduction" and "Safety of Mother and Baby", etc. Giving play to the role of Fujian-born overseas Chinese, we actively guided them to participate in the poverty alleviation and development in their home villages and established service platforms for them to subsidize needy students and improve the rural infrastructure. Continued to promote the Fujian- Ningxia pairing-off poverty alleviation cooperation.
【Legalization construction for poverty alleviation】On August 16, 2013, the Provincial Committee held the plenary meeting on the provincial rural poverty alleviation and development work, adopted the “Several Opinions on Further Accelerating the Development of Provincial Key Counties for Poverty Alleviation and Development” and developed measures to promote the development of the key counties in the field of industrial development, financial support, infrastructure construction, supply of land and financial services. After that, the government issued the “Opinions on Strengthening the Taland and Cadre Team Building for Provincial Key Counties for Poverty Alleviation and Development”, the “Outline of the Program for Industrial Park Building through Shanhai Collaboration in Fujian Province”, etc. Since 2012, the provincial government successively issued a dozen of documents, forming a relatively complete pro-poor policy system.
【Pilot project of public lottery funds】In 2013, pilot projects supported by central lottery funds of 100 million yuan was launched in 13 relatively contiguous old revolutionary base areas, namely Changting, Ninghua, Pucheng, Songxi, Zhenghe, Zhouning, Zherong, Pingnan, Shouning, Jianning, Mingxi, Taining and Qingliu. A total of 154.7 million yuan was issued, including 100 million yuan from the central government, 21 million yuan from the provincial government and more than 33 million yuan of self-raised funds and labor inputs of the masses. The projects covered 208 villages of 81 towns, involving the construction of unhardened tractor roads of more than 1500 km, hardened tractor roads of 193 km, 345 impounding reservoirs of 9100 cubic meters, the pavement of irrigation pipelines of 180 km, the construction of drainage ditches of 195 km water-saving irrigation area of 8500 mu as well as other small public facilities urgently needed in rural areas.
【Pilot program of mutual funds】The province vigorously promoted the construction of mutual funds and other capital service organizations, strengthened management, and regulated the operation to improve efficiency. At present, pilot work has been launched in 93 villages of 11 counties and 6426 rural households joined the mutual-aid societies with an investment of 22.297 million yuan, and the program supported 7198 rural households to develop production.
【Poverty alleviation publicity】In 2013, we had a total of 259 articles on poverty alleviation and development printed in the central mainstream media and network media, including one used by Xinhua News Agency, eight by People’s Daily, one by Central People's Broadcasting Station, three by Guangming Daily, one by Economic Daily News, one by China Network Television, two by Worker's Daily, one by Legal Daily, two by Procuratorial Daily, two by China Youth Daily, 12 by the News Network, 15 by China News Network, two by CCTV Online, two by Guangming Online and 206 by the People’s Daily Online.
(Dong Jianwu, Fujian Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office)
Poverty Alleviation and Development in Jiangxi Province
【Overview】In 2013, in the poverty alleviation and development, Jiangxi Province targeted
at 3.85 million poor people, promoted the village governance, relocation-based poverty reduction, labor transfer training and industrial poverty alleviation in 3400 impoverished villages, focused on the poverty reduction in 38 counties of the former central Soviet areas and contiguous poor areas with special difficulties, and accelerated the infrastructure construction and industrial development, steadily increasing the income of impoverished regions and poverty-stricken people. In the 38 key counties for poverty alleviation, the per capita income of farmers rose reached 6556 yuan, up 24.9%, 12.72 percentage points above the provincial average (The per capita income of farmers in the 17 contiguous poor districts and counties reached 5797 yuan, up 123.1 %, that of the 21 national key counties for poverty alleviation and development reached 5268 yuan, up 21.3 %; and that of the 25 provincial and provincial contiguous poor districts and counties was 5341yuan, up 21.5 %). In 2013, the number of poverty-stricken people fell from 3.85 million to 3.28 million.
【Investment of poverty-relief funds】In 2013, Jiangxi Province put in special anti-poverty
funds of 1.675 billion yuan, with an increase of 234 million yuan over the previous year, up 17%,
of which: 987 million yuan was from the central government, with an increase of 137 million yuan, up 16%, and 688 million yuan was provincial matching funds, with an increase of 103 million yuan, up 18%. In the whole year, the relevant departments and enterprises invested more than one billion yuan of relief funds in kind and cash to 38 key counties for poverty reduction, increased loans of 2.04 billion yuan and allocated central budget funds of 4.8 billion yuan for the former central Soviet areas. The provincial government allocated 530 million yuan for the industrial poverty alleviation and development of former central Soviet areas and contiguous poor areas and integrated 5 billion yuan to support the rural construction in the counties of contiguous poor areas.
【Management of poverty-relief funds】Established a scientific "2 + 14" institutional framework for the management of project-relief funds and projects, formulated the "Measures on the Performance Management and Evaluation of Poverty Alleviation and Resettlement", arranged municipal governments to carry out evaluation of anti-poverty work in the counties not identified by the provincial government for assessment to make the assessment of anti-poverty work more scientific, fair and operable; and prepared the "Opinions on Strengthening Risk Prevention and Control of Special Fund Projects in Promoting the Construction of the Party Conduct of An Honest and Clean Government". On the basis of the two documents, the province successively introduced 14 anti-poverty work management systems, clarified, analyzed and standardized the management processes, risks and risk prevention and control measures of 20 special funds from the provincial, city, county, township and village perspectives, and established a poverty alleviation and development work management system with clear levels, clear division of labor and responsibilities and a wide coverage. Carefully organized the assessment of anti-poverty work and poverty-relief fund performance, invited a third accounting firm to audit the work in some counties, implemented the spirit of the "Circular of LGOP on Implementing the Spirit of the Executive Meeting of the State Council and Strengthening the Management of Financial Anti-poverty Funds" and made arrangements for various regions to carry out t a comprehensive audit on the anti-poverty work based on self-inspection and self-correction. In 2013, Jiangxi Province was awarded 23 million yuan as a Grade A province in the national assessment of poverty-relief fund performance, was rated as an advanced unit in the national assessment of poverty-relief fund performance and publicly praised by the State Council Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development.
【Implementation of poverty alleviation plans】The province integrated relevant forces to
promote the implementation of the national strategic planning on the revitalization and development of former Central Soviet Area in the southern part of Jiangxi and the poverty reduction in contiguous poor areas with special difficulties, and adhered to promoted poverty alleviation and development through regional development and accelerated regional development by poverty alleviation and development. The provincial government promulgated the "Opinions on the Implementation of the Several Opinions of State Council on Supporting the Revitalization and Development of Former Central Soviet Area in the Southern Part of Jiangxi Province" and implemented the pro-poor policies and programs. The regional development and poverty alleviation planning of Luoxiao Mountain Area and the planning for the demonstration zone of industrial transfer in the southern part of Jiangxi Province were respectively approved and issued by the State Council and the National Development and Reform Commission. Organized the preparation of the "Regional Development and Poverty Reduction Planning for Luoxiao Mountain Area of Jiangxi Province (2011-2015)" and the "Industrial Poverty Alleviation Planning for Contiguous Poor Areas with Special Difficulties in Jiangxi Province (2011-2015)"; organized and arranged relevant municipal, county and provincial organs to support 52 central government departments and units to provide counterpart support for 31 counties (cities, districts) in former Central Soviet Area in southern part of Jiangxi Province; coordinated the Ministry of Civil Affairs to hold the work conference on the regional development and poverty alleviation in Luoxiao Mountain Area, continued to adhere to the "four one" poverty alleviation mechanism and focused on the key-problem tackling for poverty reduction in 38 counties of the contiguous poor areas and former Central Soviet area. In other words, the provincial government leaders, other provincial leaders and the leaders of the army troops stationed in Jiangxi each went to a poor county for fixed-point poverty alleviation, guided the counties in contiguous poor areas to develop and implement the poverty alleviation programs and guided the counties in Central Soviet Area to formulate and implement the development and revitalization plan; one provincial department with relatively powerful integrated strength and one state-owned holding enterprise with certain strength were designated to assist the provincial leaders’ fixed-point poverty alleviation work, and the provincial government issued, for ten consecutive years, 10 million yuan of annual anti-poverty funds for industrial development.
【Entire village advancement】The province implemented the reform of entire village advancement (governance) of impoverished villages. Since 2013, combining entire village advancement with the new rural construction, changing the support targets from administrative villages to natural villages, the province classified the projects of village governance and construction of impoverished natural villages and launched the projects in batches in different years. In 2013, the province launched 1800 new rural construction projects in poor villages and 837 municipal and county-level new rural construction projects; allocated 200,000 yuan of financial anti-poverty funds for the poor natural villages involved in the provincial new rural construction; allocated 150,000 yuan of anti-poverty funds for the poor natural village building involved in the city and county-level new rural construction; put in a total of 610 million yuan of financial anti-poverty funds, integrated 670 million yuan of new rural construction funds and invested a total of 1.28 billion yuan in poor villages in the whole year, with an increase of 940 million yuan over the previous year. Guided local governments to prepare the annual program for village governance, and urged and guided the implementation of the pilot work in four pilot counties of entire village advancement by central public lottery funds and 11 pilot counties for innovation by central public lottery funds according to the requirements of the central government.
【Ex-situ relocation for poverty alleviation】Integrated the policies for poverty-relief relocation, Food for Work relocation, ecological resettlement, geological disaster prevention relocation and the renovation of rural old and dilapidated buildings to carry out poverty-relief relocation, and launched the pilot projects of relocation-based poverty alleviation in urban areas and industrial parks. In 2013, the province put in a total of 388 million yuan of relief funds for relocation, up 59%, completed the annual task of relocating 141814 households and 62900 people, including 60877 people for centralized resettlement, accounting for 97% of the total; and completed the relocation of 2051 households and 7520 people in key areas affected by rural environmental pollution, completing 100% of the task.
【Pilot projects of relocation-based poverty alleviation in ruban areas and industrial parks】In 2013, the province began to select some counties to launch the pilot projects of relocation-based poverty alleviation in urban areas and industrial parks, established the basic framework of "taking the county as the basic unit and platform to implement the county-based three-level linkage (county, township and village-level)", made overall deployments to promote the coordinated county economic and social development; in accordance with the basic requirements of "affordable relocation, long-term stability and gradually prosperity", adhered to the overall relocation, gradient resettlement, differentiated support and integrated promotion, implemented the basic policy of "doing no harm to the original interests of the immigrants, increasing existing equity and expecting future interests" to earnestly safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the immigrants; focused on "planning guidance, making steady progress within our capacity based on actual conditions" and adhered to "government leadership, farmers support, market operation and social assistance" to achieve the scientific development of the resettlement and anti-poverty work.
【Rain Plan】Launched two pilot projects of the "Rain Plan" implementation reform and labor transfer skills training, implemented the "Rain Plan" in the process of urbanization and industrialization for improvement, made overall arrangements on the use of anti-poverty funds and immigrants training funds, mainly supporting the vocational education and training of children from needy rural households and the professional skills trainings of poor labors.
In 2013, the province actually held trainings for 44,548 people. Deducted the 15560 people for pilot reform of the Rain Plan implementation mode according to the plan of LGOP, the provincial government actually held trainings for 28988 people, 102.31% of the planned figure, including vocational education trainings for 6986 people and employment transfer and skills training for 22,002 people. Through the Rain Plan, the province transferred employments of 21064 people and the employment transfer rate reached 95.72%.
【Industry poverty alleviation】Strengthened the industrial poverty alleviation to directly
benefit poverty-stricken households, issued the "Measures on the Implementation of Industrial Poverty Alleviation Fund Projects in Former Central Soviet Area and Contiguous Poor Areas in Southern Part of Jiangxi Province" and clarified that the industrial poverty alleviation funds must be used mainly to support projects directly related to the poverty reduction and income growth of impoverished rural households to ensure that the industrial poverty alleviation funds will really support the poor and vulnerable groups. Launched the pilot projects of industrial poverty alleviation by issuing secured loans; issued 20.5 million yuan of poverty alleviation loan interest discount funds to support the development of poverty alleviation industries; accelerated the pilot work of “mutual funds”, launched pilot projects of “village mutual funds) in 404 impoverished villages, allocated 2.5 million yuan of additional pilot project funds to award 50 pilot villages of 21 counties; organized the declaration of pilot projects of poverty-relief financial cooperation and reported two projects to the state.
【Statistical monitoring】Prepared basic information of the province's anti-poverty work, audit, checked, upgraded and maintained the poor rural household information management system and, in accordance with the requirements of “identifying the targets, developing policies and measures, assigning responsibilities and setting the goal” for household poverty reduction, issued the “Opinions on Comprehensively Promoting the Household Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas” in the name of the provincial committee and government. Assisted the provincial statistical and survey departments to estimate the number of poverty-stricken people in various counties, towns and villages, made clear the principle for the identification of poverty-stricken people, launched the identification of poor households in the province, made dynamic adjustment to the identified poor and carried out re-investigation and established cards for archives.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】10 central organs were designated to provide counterpart support for 21 national key counties for poverty alleviation and development, achieving full coverage of the key counties. In 2013, the central organs directly put in relief funds and materials of 178 million yuan. Improved the mechanism to promote fixed-point poverty alleviation, praised the provincial advanced units and individuals in the fixed-point poverty alleviation in 2012 in the name of the provincial leading group of poverty alleviation and development and publicly praised the provincial fixed-point poverty alleviation units and individuals in 2012 jointly with the Provincial Department of Organization.
Guided local governments to take fixed-point poverty alleviation as the main carrier,mobilize
organ units at all levels and party cadres to carry out featured poverty reduction activities, involving 5156 aiding units (including 291 provincial units, 997 municipal units and 3868 county-level units) providing counterpart support for 3400 impoverished villages. These departments and units put in nearly 891 million yuan of anti-poverty funds in kind and cash.
【Poverty alleviation and development work conference】On September 17, 2013, the provincial poverty alleviation and development work conference was held in Nanchang City, which made overall deployments on the poverty reduction work in the new stage. Party Secretary Qiang Wei, Governor Lu Xinshe and Deputy Party Secretary Shang Yong addressed the event. On April 19, the work conference on the fixed-point poverty alleviation of central organs in Jiangxi Province was convened. From April 19 to 24, the participants of the “Seminar on the Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Poverty Reduction of Developing Counties for Officials” sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce and organized by International Poverty Reduction Center in China (IPRCC) carried out a field research in Jiangxi Province.
(Gong Liangbao, Jiangxi Provincial Poverty Alleviation and Immigration Office)
Poverty Alleviation and Development in Shandong Province
【Overview】In 2013, Shandong Province earnestly implemented the central government’s deployments on poverty alleviation and development and the spirit of the important speech delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping in his field research in the impoverished regions of Shandong Province. Focusing on “promoting poverty reduction by party building” and special poverty alleviation, supplemented with industrial poverty alleviation and social poverty alleviation, the province strived to establish a grand pattern for poverty alleviation and comprehensively completed the annual poverty reduction task. According to incomplete statistics, in 2013, the province put in anti-poverty funds of 4.2 billion yuan, built roads of 1720 km, solved the drinking water problem of 887600 people, erected electric wires of 1622 kilometers for production and living, transferred and held trainings for 520,000 rural poor labors and reduced the poor by 1.5 million.
On November 28, General Secretary Xi Jinping went to Shandong for inspection on the anti-poverty work and stressed in his field research in Heze City that: “we must continue to accelerate the poverty alleviation and development. we should, on the one hand, accelerate the urbanization construction and, on the other hand, promote the new rural construction. Even if the urbanization rate reaches 70% in future, 30% of the people will still live in the countryside. We must develop modern agriculture to actively push forward the new rural construction through promoting the equalization of basic public services and make the countryside a beautiful home for farmers’ happy life”.
【Poverty alleviation by party building】In April 2012, the province began to vigorously promote the activity of “promoting party building to reduce poverty” and selected the “first
secretary” to support the anti-poverty work in poor villages for three years. As of the end of 2013,
the provincial, city and county governments sent a total of 26,828 “first secretaries” to 25,096
impoverished villages and communities, invested 4.943 billion yuan of relief funds, visited the poor for 314,400 times, solved 118800 hot and difficult problems, established 60,792 projects of village development and income growth of poor rural households, set up 824 party organizations, adjusted 1,352 party secretaries and 2,458 members of the “two committees” of villages, cultivated 13,843 party members and 27,180 village and community reserve cadres and established 40,676 effective systems.
【Special poverty alleviation】Focusing on entire village advancement, the central and provincial governments issued financial anti-poverty funds of 234 million yuan to support 780 key
poor villages of 39 counties (districts) in 13 cities, namely Weifang, Zibo, Binzhou, Rizhao, Linyi,
Zaozhuang, Jining, Tai’an, Laiwu, Jinan, Dezhou, Liaocheng and Heze, averagely 300,000 yuan for each village to develop featured industries. Planted quality commodity grain of 51100 mu, featured cucurbits and vegetables of 35800 mu, forest and fruit of 53700 mu and Chinese traditional herbs of 12600 mu, bred a total of 3.3412 million poultries and livestock. The objects of the poverty alleviation and development got farmland or vegetable gardens / orchards with guaranteed yield, a certain number of poultries or livestock and had the conditions for income growth. In 2013, the rural per capita net income increased by 1200 yuan or more, above the provincial average of 1174 yuan.
【Industry poverty alleviation】In accordance with the "Program on the Implementation of the Target Responsibility System of the ‘Shandong Province Rural Poverty Alleviation and Development Program (2011-2020)’", 17 provincial industry sectors including the Provincial Department of Agriculture earnestly implemented the construction of the project of "Five Access and Ten Possession" (Access to roads, tap water, electricity, broadcasting and TV program and information; possession of farmland ensuring stable yields despite drought or excessive rain, projects to enrich people, offices for the “two committees” of village, clinic room, cleaning system, pre-school education, cultural activity room, fitness venue, good ecological environment and employment safeguards) in 3035 impoverished villages supported by the government during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period. The industrial poverty alleviation was launched in April 2012. As of the end of 2013, except the impoverished villages contracted by the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office obtained projects to enrich people, other 16 departments integrated a total of 2.788 billion yuan of agriculture-related and farmer-benefiting project funds to help the poor villages improve production and living conditions. The Provincial Department of Transportation issued 559 million yuan to help poor areas and impoverished village build roads of 1577 km. The Provincial Department of Water Conservancy issued 236 million yuan to help 785 poor villages install tap water system. The Provincial Electric Power Group invested 493 million yuan to help 1,023 poor villages erect electric wires and improve the obsolete electrical facilities. The Provincial Radio and TV Bureau issued 15.39 million yuan to help 188 poor villages and 46,642 households install CATV. The Provincial Economic and Information Technology Commission and the Provincial Communications Authority put in 1.9 million yuan to install broadband Internet for 34 poor villages and install fixed telephones for 12 impoverished villages. The Provincial Agricultural Development Office invested 450 million yuan in the construction of 8364 farmland and water conservancy facility projects and 644,000 mu of farmland ensuring stable yields despite of drought or excessive rain for poor villages.
The Provincial Organization Department invested 170 million yuan to help 534 poor villages
set up the “two committees” offices, and expanded and repaired the offices of 1427 impoverished villages. The Provincial Health Department invested 1.939 million yuan to help 1,385 poor villages set up clinics. The Provincial Department of Agriculture issued 153 million yuan to build 65000 biogas digesters, install 4010 solar water heaters and 372 solar street lamps for the poor villages. The Provincial Department of Education invested 349 million yuan to help impoverished villages set up 721 pre-school education centers. The Provincial Department of Culture issued 60.8 million yuan to help 2,175 poor villages build culture rooms. The Provincial Sports Bureau invested 119 million yuan to help 1970 villages build the sports venues. The Provincial Department of Environmental Protection invested 33.46 million yuan in the construction of 19,587 waste disposal facilities for poor villages. The Provincial Department of Forestry invested 51.52 million yuan in the afforestation of 107,000 mu in impoverished villages, and the Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security invested 94,303,000 yuan to hold agricultural production technology training, entrepreneurship training, and labor skills training for workforce of poor households in impoverished villages.
【Industrial poverty alleviation】In accordance with the requirements of the "Circular on
A Comprehensive Reform of the Poverty-relief Discount Loans Management System" (Guo Kai Ban Fa No. [2008] 29), the province allocated 5 million yuan of discount loans for poverty alleviation, of which 2.5 million yuan was used to support the growth of 20 poverty alleviation leading enterprises in Linyi, Dezhou, Binzhou, Liaocheng, Jining , Taian and Rizhao, and 2.5 million yuan was used to support the petty loan projects of poor rural households in some impoverished villages of these cities. 5 million yuan of loan discount funds guided the issuance of 133 million yuan of business and household loans, including 83 million yuan of business loans and 50 million yuan of household loans. As a result, the impoverished regions increased agricultural production base area by 100,000 mu, increased 65 livestock farming communities and 325,000 heads of livestock. Arranged petty loans for 1250 households, 2000 yuan per household, to help the poor solve fund shortage for the development of production.
【Rain Plan】Invested 5 million yuan to hold labor transfer trainings for rural poor households in 23 demonstration bases of the "Rain Plan" in nine cities, namely Zibo, Jining, Tai'an, Linyi, Dezhou, Liaocheng, Binzhou, Heze and Rizhao. According to the procedures of being declared by the poor, verified by the "two committees" of village, investigated by the township government, reviewed by the county poverty alleviation office and recorded by the city poverty alleviation office, in the whole year, we selected 8380 labors from rural poor households for trainings and labor transfer.
In accordance with the standard of averagely 500 yuan for the training of one person, focusing on the short-term labor skills trainings of electromechanical and appliance repairing, computer operations, urban family services, sewing and security, entrusted the demonstration bases of the "Rain Plan" and domestic large and medium-sized enterprises and other urban employers to sign "recruitment contracts" with the relevant families to ensure the labors from rural needy families will find a job after receiving the labor skills trainings.
【Pilot program of mutual funds】Invested 42.825 million yuan to set up 161 pilot organizations of mutual funds. As of the end of 2013, Shandong Province had set up 995 pilot organizations of mutual funds in 40 counties (districts) with 202100 participants from rural households and a total mutual funds of 294 million yuan, of which 202 million yuan was from the central and provincial governments, 86 million yuan was raised by the farmers and 6 million yuan was social donations and other funds. The pilot projects of mutual funds simplified the procedures for the poor to obtain loans and expanded the sources for the development of production funds. As a result, the agricultural production, processing, marketing and transportation of poor rural households witnessed rapid growth and the annual income of the poor increased by more than 3000 yuan per capita. The pilot work of mutual funds of Shandong Province was rated Grade A in the national performance evaluation of mutual funds in the country in 2013 and the LGOP awarded 6 million yuan for the province to expand the pilot program.
【Pilot project of public lottery funds】Continued to implement the pilot project for central
lottery funds to support the innovations in Yimeng Old Revolutionary Base Area with an investment of 80 million yuan (of which 60 million yuan was from the central government and 20 million yuan was provincial matching funds).
Since the State Council included Shandong Province into the list of pilot areas for innovations in poverty alleviation and development in old revolutionary base areas supported by the central lottery funds, from 2012 to 2013, a total of 180 million yuan was invested in 12 pilot counties in Yimeng Old Revolutionary Base Area, namely Yinan County, Tancheng County, Sishui County, Fei County, Linqu County, Pingyi County, Ju County, Wulian County, Yiyuan County, Cangshan County, Junan County and Linshu County. Built roads of 286.5 km, 907 bridges and culverts, 211 wells, 51 dams and 20 irrigation (pumping) stations, and dug irrigation ditches of 130.7 kilometers, covering 253 poor villages and 118,200 people, effectively improving the traffic and agricultural production and irrigation conditions in Yimeng Old Revolutionary Base Area.
【Establishing card for archives】For the 55 counties (districts), 200 impoverished towns,
3,035 poor villages and the low-income households living below the poverty line supported by the provincial government during the "12th Five-Year Plan” period, in accordance with the principle of one file for one village and one card for one household, we established cards for archives and implemented dynamic management. Targeting at the poor villages and poverty-stricken households, we implemented the pro-poor policies and adopted appropriate measures to improve the production and living conditions of impoverished villages and households. Meanwhile, we completed the card establishment for archives for the 583 poor villages contracted by the “first secretaries” sent by the provincial organs and units from 2011 to 2012.
【Poverty alleviation training】In 2013, the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office, in conjunction with the Provincial Organization Department and the provincial Department of Finance, held in Shandong Agricultural University the trainings of party secretaries for key impoverished villages supported by the provincial government and trainings of chairmen and accountants for pilot villages of mutual funds. Invested financial anti-poverty funds of d 3.466 million yuan to organize centralized training of party secretaries of 2123 poor villages supported by the government, and completed the first round of trainings of party secretaries of 3035 impoverished villages supported by the provincial government during the "12th Five-Year Plan” period. Relying on the teaching force of Shandong Agricultural University, we held trainings of chairmen and accountants for 268 pilot villages of mutual funds to learn the management practices of mutual-fund associations or cooperatives.
【Mechanism construction】Strengthened the construction of institutionalization and standardization of poverty alleviation work. From April 25 to 27, the provincial government set up
five anti-poverty work of the Steering Group, respectively, by the provincial government established five inspection groups of poverty alleviation and development respectively under the leadership of the Provincial Organization Department, the Provincial Development and Reform Commission, the Provincial Department of Finance, the Provincial Department of Agriculture and the Research Office of the Provincial Government, and organized the relevant units to carry out an inspection on the implementation of the spirit of the provincial poverty alleviation and development conference as well as the anti-poverty work in various cities. On June 6, the province issued the "Measures on the Assessment of Poverty Alleviation and Development Work in Shandong Province (Trial)". In late December, under the leadership of the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office, the Provincial Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, the Provincial Audit Department and the Provincial Statistic Bureau, we carried out a mid-term assessment on the poverty reduction in the poor villages contracted by 583 “first secretaries” sent by the provincial government in 2012 and proposed to accelerate the pace of poverty reduction. Strengthened the study of the production and living difficulties facing the masses in the Yellow River Floodplain, prepared the "Research Report on the Rural Poverty in Yellow River Floodplain of Shandong Province" and suggested to the provincial committee, the provincial government and LGOP that we should increase support for the Yellow River Floodplain.
【Institutional construction】Office of the Institutional Organization Committee of Shandong
Province approved Shandong Provincial Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development to establish the Poverty Alleviation Planning Division, Poverty Alleviation Project Management Division and the Division of Social Poverty Alleviation. Head of the Provincial Department of Agriculture Wang Jinbao acted as the Director General of the Provincial Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, for which one full-time deputy director, one deputy director and two officers were increased. Kept the Provincial Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation and Development and canceled the Provincial Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development. Set up independent poverty alleviation and development offices or departments in all the cities with poor villages supported by the provincial government, strengthened the poverty alleviation and development team building and improved the working conditions to some extent.
(Shandong Provincial Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development)
Poverty Alleviation and Development in Henan Province
【Overview】In 2013, to accelerate the poverty reduction in impoverished regions and increase the income of poor farmers, Henan Province took the poverty reduction projects in Dabie Mountain Area, Funiu Mountain Area, Taihang Mountain Area and the Yellow River Floodplain as the major events of the mass route education of the provincial committee, included the annual poverty alleviation and development targets into the provincial government’s “Ten Major Livelihood Projects”, increased financial investment of anti-poverty funds, strengthened the poverty reduction responsibility of relevant sectors and made innovations to the social poverty alleviation pattern, achieving new results in the poverty alleviation and development work. Implemented entire village advancement projects in 1,116 poor villages, completing 111.6% of the scheduled tasks; relocated 54,000 poor residents of stony mountain areas, completing 135% of the scheduled tasks; and implemented the workforce training of 205,800 labors in poor areas according to the “Rain Plan”, completing 102.9% of the scheduled task. A total of 1.17 million rural poor people shook off poverty steadily in the province and the overall growth rate of the rural per capita net income of 53 poor counties was above the provincial average.
【Investment of poverty-relief funds】In 2013, a total of 2.335 billion yuan of financial anti-poverty funds was invested in the province, of which 1.662 billion yuan was from the central government and 673 million yuan was provincial matching funds. A total of 82.5 million yuan of public lottery funds was invested in the province, of which 62.5 million yuan was from the central government and 20 million yuan was provincial matching funds. Among the provincial anti-poverty funds, 599 million yuan was provincial financial funds for poverty reduction and development, up 51% over 2012. The city and county governments increase investment of anti-poverty funds. Zhengzhou city government, for example, allocated more than 220 million yuan and the growth rate exceeded 65% for two consecutive years.
【Management of poverty-relief funds】Developed the "Implementation Measures on the Announcement and Publicity of Poverty-relief Fund Projects in Henan Province", the "Implementation Measures on the Self-examination and Rectification of Poverty-relief Fund Projects in Henan Province", the "Working System for the Divisions of Henan Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office to Contact Poor Cities and Counties for Poverty Alleviation and Development" and the "Working System for Supervision of Appeals on Legal Issues of Henan Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office", established the mechanism for pre-allocation of financial anti-poverty funds and issued the relevant funds ahead of schedule significantly; Delegated the power of approving anti-poverty projects to the county government and strengthened the supervision responsibility of provincial and municipal governments. As for the allocation of funds, we implemented the factor method and determined the weights according to the number of poverty-stricken people, the incidence of poverty, rural per capita net income, performance evaluation, etc. While selecting poverty alleviation projects, we implemented the participatory poverty reduction with full respect for the wishes of farmers.The Provincial Government Council Office for Rectifying, the Provincial Department of Finance, the Provincial Audit Department and the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office jointly carried out a special inspection on the management and use of financial anti-poverty funds issued in 2011 and 2012, conducted performance evaluation on the management and use of financial anti-poverty funds issued in 2012, rated eight Grade A municipalities and counties (cities), ten Grade B Grade A municipalities and counties (cities), 15 Grade A poor counties, 27 Grade B poor counties and 11 Grade C poor counties, and the performance assessment results were an important basis for the allocation of anti-poverty funds.
【Poverty alleviation in contiguous poor areas】Prepared and implemented the regional development and poverty alleviation planning for Qinba Mountain Area and Dabie Mountain Area in Henan Province as well as the industrial poverty alleviation program for contiguous poor areas in the province. 935 million yuan of central and provincial anti-poverty funds was issued to 26 contiguous poor areas with special difficulties. Carried out planning monitoring and evaluation in the contiguous poor areas, mainly monitoring the realization degree of targets, completion of scheduled tasks and the implementation of major projects, and promoted the implementation of the relevant program.
Developed the "Program for Poverty Reduction Among the Masses in Dabie Mountain Area,
Funiu Mountain Area and Taihang Mountain Area of Henan Province (2014-2020)" and the "Overall Planning on Poverty Reduction Among the Masses in the Yellow River Floodplain", combining with the implementation of the regional development and poverty reduction program of the contiguous poor areas with particular difficulties, we integrated the financial anti-poverty funds, the funds from industrial sectors and financial sector, social funds and the self-raised funds of the masses to conduct poverty reduction focusing on relocation, upgrading, employment transfer and ecological environment protection, and accelerated the pace of poverty reduction among the masses in Dabie Mountain Area, Funiu Mountain Area, Taihang Mountain Area and the Yellow River Floodplain.
【Entire village advancement】A total of 2.865 billion yuan was invested in the entire village
advancement of the province, of which 757 million yuan was financial anti-poverty funds, 82.5 million yuan was central and provincial public lottery funds, 1.498 billion yuan was integrated funds of relevant sectors and 527 million yuan was self-raised funds of the masses (including labor inputs), and the entire village advancement projects were implemented in 1116 impoverished villages. Adhering to the organic combination between the entire village advancement and the new urbanization, new agricultural modernization, new rural construction and the construction of a beautiful countryside, we implemented the entire village advancement mechanism of "continuous promotion, breakthroughs in key areas for overall improvement", focusing on implementation of the water, electricity, road, gas, housing and environmental improvement projects and the development of social undertakings, made overall deployments on the implementation of various pro-poor measures and integrated sectorial resources and social forces to create fine projects of poverty alleviation and development.
Selected 150 villages as demonstration villages for entire village advancement in the province (awarded 500,000 yuan of poverty-relief funds for each village to improve the effects of the entire village advancement) and held provincial on-site trainings on entire village advancement in the contiguous poor areas and floodplain to promote successful experience and guide the anti-poverty work by models.
【Ex-situ poverty alleviation】A total of 1.297 billion yuan (including 339 million yuan of financial anti-poverty funds) was invested in the poverty-relief relocation projects, involving 54,000 poor people living in stony mountain areas, set up 113 immigrant communities (resettlement areas), resettlement houses of 1.326 million square meters, erected electric circuits of 227.9 kilometers, built roads of 256.8 kilometers and paved pipelines of 516.3 kilometers. Adhering to "government guidance, measure adjustment to local conditions on a voluntary basis for orderly promotion", we increased local government investment, strengthened the integration of relevant resources, increased efforts on the relocation of entire village /village team, guided and supported the poor to move towards the local government township, county, tourist attractions service area and living areas concentrated with various industries to ensure “affordable relocation, steady progress, sustained development and poverty reduction”.
【Industry poverty alleviation】Implemented the industrial poverty-relief loan interest discount projects, put in central and provincial financial anti-poverty funds of 144 million yuan, provided discount funds for 377 industrialization leading enterprises and farmers’ cooperative organizations, strived for the issuance of 4.8 billion yuan of loans from financial agencies to impoverished regions, 116 million yuan of industrial development funds from leading enterprises for poor areas, promoted the cultivation of featured planting bases of 22 million mu and increased the income of 501,100 poor residents, directly helping 70,700 poor people find a job. Implemented the small household loan project with central and provincial anti-poverty funds of 42.96 million yuan, provide discount loans for poor households to develop featured industries, strived for 820 million yuan of small loans for household poverty reduction to support 25,800 poverty-stricken households. Implemented the income-generating projects for poor households with central and provincial anti-poverty funds of 238 million yuan and implemented 829 projects to support 63,000 poor households to develop featured industries.
【Rain Plan】A total of 190 million yuan of central and financial anti-poverty funds was invested for the Rain Plan and held labor trainings for 205,800 people in impoverished regions, including 32,300 people covered by the pilot reform of student-aiding program, 32,200 people covered by the vocational education student-aiding project for new workforce of needy families, 58,000 people from needy families receiving short-term skills trainings, 73,000 people receiving practical skills training for industrial development in impoverished villages and 10,300 people covered by the local or nearby training and employment project.
Highlighted vocational skills training and selected some provincial, city and county training bases to cultivate a number of service brands, achieving stable employment of the training objects.
Actively explored ways to reform the Rain Plan implementation mode and the directly subsidies accounted for more than 60% of the total subsidies. Launched the training of grassroots leaders and the leaders in becoming rich in impoverished regions, involving more than 300 people in two batches.
【Pilot program of mutual funds】Adhering to the principle of “key support, coverage expansion and steady progress”, the province invested 28.78 million yuan of central and provincial anti-poverty funds, increased 115 pilot villages in 26 counties and awarded 73 pilot villages. At the end of 2013, the pilot program of mutual funds covered 48 counties and 746 impoverished villages; the mutual funds amounted to 144 million yuan, including 125.6 million yuan of financial anti-poverty funds and 15.76 million yuan of mutual funds paid by farmers; a total of 51100 rural households joined the mutual-aid societies, including 32200 poverty-stricken households; a total of 218 million yuan of loans was issued, of which 149 million yuan was issued to the poor, and a total of 193 million yuan of loans was repaid with maturity repayment rate of 100%.
【Pilot project of public lottery funds】Used the central and provincial lottery funds to launch pilot projects of entire village advancement in impoverished old revolutionary base areas of 59 poor villages in nine poor counties. The total investment in the program amounted to 265 million yuan, of which 62.5 million yuan was central lottery funds, 20 million yuan was provincial lottery funds, 10.69 million yuan was county-level anti-poverty funds, 137.66 million yuan was sector funds and 34.02 million yuan was raised by the masses (including labor inputs), and 523 infrastructure and industrial development projects were implemented. Attached importance to community participation, promoted the community-led philosophy and empowered the villagers for project selection, decision-making, supervision and management to give full play to the main role of the masses.
【Food for work】Invested 205 million yuan of central government funds and 60 million yuan of provincial financial funds for the program of Food for Work, built rural roads, 15 bridges, channels of 7900 meters, drainage channels of 7100 meters, land retaining dams of 3408 meters, barrages of 1594 meters and water pipes of 8050 meters, and repaired ten irrigation stations and 18 ponds in 53 poor counties. Through the construction of 516 small road and bridge projects, we solved the traffic problems of 700 villages; through the integrated governance and development of small contiguous poor areas and the construction of small farmland and water conservancy projects, we increased or improved irrigation area of 63600 mu, protected arable land of 4880 mu, improved small watersheds of 8.6 square kilometers and solved the drinking water problem of 17900 people.
【Poverty alleviation by science and technology】Invested 105 million yuan of central and provincial anti-poverty funds, implemented 225 poverty relief projects by science and technology, covering 381 impoverished villages, promoted the application of 438 new species and new technologies, organized 510 provincial agricultural experts to give field instruction, issued 590,000 copies of technical materials and held trainings for 220,000 poor people.
Increased efforts on the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, through the promotion of improved varieties, technological upgrading and the participation of technicians, we supported nearly 100 featured competitive industries. Strengthened the management of poverty reduction projects by science and technology, and implemented the "four one" working mechanism: one county audit report, one video summary, one set of uniform numbers and one long-term operation mechanism for each project.
【Foreign-funded poverty alleviation】After the mid-term adjustment of the fifth poverty alleviation project of the World Bank, a total of 373 million yuan was planned for the project. As of the end of 2013, a total of 225 million yuan was invested in the project. Built village roads of 704 km, 81 bridges and culverts, 709 impounding reservoirs, cultural squares of 26500 square meters, slope area of 12500 square meters, school buildings of 2100 square meters and reading rooms of 2897 square meters; completed the registration of mutual-aid societies and set up 115 accounts; 83 mutual-aid societies had a registered fund of 9.076 million yuan and issued 8.9954 million yuan of loans, completed the practical skills training of 18800 farmers, organized 685 people to visit village projects, completed the pilot work in 15 GEF project villages and held trainings for 860 person-times; completed the project management training and research for 9916 person-times and purchased 552 sets of office supplies and furniture and 16 vehicles for project purpose.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】23 central organs, institutions and enterprises directly
invested more than 50 million yuan in the impoverished areas of Henan Province, introduced more than 170 million yuan and held trainings for more than 3300 cadres, technicians and rural leaders in becoming rich. The provincial, city and county governments selected a total of 7191 units and 9107 cadres to provide counterpart support for 7780 poor villages, covering 76% of the impoverished villages. Ten of the 18 provincial administered municipalities achieved full coverage of poor villages in the fixed-point poverty alleviation.
The provincial, city and county governments issued 759 million yuan for the fixed-point poverty alleviation, introduced 1.671 billion yuan of investment, helped launch 4456 projects and held 5653 trainings for 318,000 technicians and rural leaders in becoming rich and organized labor transfer trainings for 165,000 people for the village enterprises and the village-school-enterprise docking program.
【Poverty alleviation by enterprises and all circles of society】Launched the activity for “one thousand enterprises to support one thousand villages” and “poverty alleviation through cooperation between villages and enterprises”. 1493 private enterprises were designated to support
1030 impoverished villages and invested more than 500 million yuan of anti-poverty funds for the
poor villages. Carried out “Concentric” practical action, the “Care Package” activity and the activity of “military-civilian joint efforts in construction”. The United Front Work Department of the Provincial Committee promoted the successful signing of 18 investment projects valued 4.531 billion yuan for the “Concentric” practical action in Luoning County, and coordinated the united front system and relevant authorities to invest more than 150 million yuan. Relying on the extensive propaganda and mobilization activities on October 17, the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, we created a strong atmosphere for social poverty alleviation. At the opening ceremony of the “Golden Fruit Project” for socialized industrial poverty alleviation and the “Love Dream Project” for social welfare poverty alleviation, for example, Luoyang City signed investment and donation contracts valued more than 880 million yuan.
【Poverty alleviation institution construction】The Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office newly set up the Office of Social Poverty Alleviation and the Office for Management of Mutual Funds and Petty Loans to increase workforce, issued the "Circular of Henan Province Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation and Development on Further Strengthening the Responsibility System for Poverty Alleviation and Development" to clarify the tasks and responsibilities of the provincially administered municipalities, counties (cities) and provincial departments, and formulated the "Measures on Cadre Training for Poverty Alleviation in Henan Province" to strengthen poverty alleviation training.
(Zheng Fang, Henan Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office)
Poverty Alleviation and Development in Hubei Province
【Overview】In 2013, Hubei Province lifted a total of 649,000 registered rural poor residents
out of poverty, overfulfilling the scheduled task by 29.8%, lifting 249,000 and 140,000 more people out of poverty compared to in 2011 and 2012, and the poverty reduction speed was significantly accelerated. The rural per capita net income of 29 key counties reached 5675 yuan, with an increase of 793 yuan, up 16.2%, 3.3 percentage points above the provincial average, and Hubei was named Grade A in the national performance evaluation of poverty alleviation and development work.
【Poverty alleviation in contiguous poor areas】Hubei Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office and the Hubei Provincial Development and Reform Commission prepared four Regional Development and Poverty Alleviation Plans for contiguous poor areas and the provincial implementation plan, verified and approved the poverty alleviation planning of the counties (cities, districts) for contiguous poor areas, prepared the industrial development plans for the contiguous poor areas jointly with the relevant provincial departments, and provided guidance and propulsion methods for the anti-poverty work in the four contiguous poor areas. The provincial government established a specialized Industry Development Fund for the contiguous poor areas and invested 5 billion yuan to support the industrial development in these areas. The provincial organs increased support and issued about 300 – 500 million yuan every year to support each contiguous poor area. The province promoted the implementation of projects in contiguous poor areas through designating relevant provincial leaders to contact the contiguous poor areas, arranging provincial organs to take the lead in coordination relevant work and requiring the relevant departments to cooperate. Held the meetings to promote the anti-poverty work in contiguous poor areas and the meetings for city, county and township cadres to create an atmosphere for joint poverty reduction. Actively explored the establishment of rural financing system, agriculture-related financial integration, the linkage of changes in land area, the combination of production, learning and research, inter-regional cooperation, land transfer, the integration of urban and rural development and the joint meeting mechanism, etc. Adhering to pilot work first, we earnestly promoted the pilot reform of integrated poverty reduction in Longfeng Town of Enshi City and the revitalization and development of Chaihu, and coordinated the implementation of various support policies.
In 2013, the four contiguous poor areas recorded a GDP of 339.7 billion yuan, achieved above-scale industrial added value of 114.8 billion yuan and a local fiscal revenue of 20 billion yuan, respectively up 18%, 40% and 20% over the previous year. The urban per capita disposable income was 17418 yuan and the rural per capita net income was 5758, respectively up 12% and 15%.
【Entire village advancement】In accordance with the requirements of resource integration
and centralized investment, the province integrated a total of 1.77372 billion yuan (5.912 million yuan per village) of funds for the 300 villages involved in entire village advancement projects launched in 2013, of which 380.47 million yuan was special anti-poverty funds, 72.79 million yuan was Food-for-work funds, 729.23 million yuan was industrial poverty alleviation funds, 60.9 million yuan was discount funds for poverty reduction, 168.75 million yuan was social poverty alleviation funds, 352.89 million yuan was raised by the masses and 8.69 million yuan was other funds. Significant achievements were made in the anti-poverty work.
The 300 villages developed planting area of 280,000 mu, bred 1.15 million sheep, built highroads of 2548 kilometers, 999 farmland and water conservancy projects and 1284 rural environmental governance projects, respectively accounting for 100%, 107%, 101%, 104% and 101% of the scheduled task.
Through the implementation of entire village advancement projects, the poverty rate of the 300 villages fell from 45% to 28%, and the per capita net income of farmers increased by 808 yuan, rising from 2769 yuan to 3577 yuan.
【Industry poverty alleviation】In 2013, Hubei Province put in financial discount funds of 102 million yuan and integrated more than 3.6 billion yuan for poverty alleviation and development, supported 736 leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization, benefiting 2600 impoverished villages and 944,000 people, lifted 148,000 poor households out of poverty, built featured industrial bases of more than 20 million mu, covering over 70% of the poor villages and households, and featured industries contributed 60% to the total income of farmers.
Actively promoted central enterprises to support poverty alleviation and development and sign 18 project agreements with the key counties with a total investment of 15.96 billion yuan. Organized the activity for one thousand enterprises to support one thousand villages. 1,072 enterprises in the province got involved in the poverty alleviation and development with an investment of 330 million yuan, held trainings of poor labors for 67,969 person-times, provided 29,827 jobs, established various types of featured industrial bases of 755,779 mu and subsidized 5,326 needy students. Increased efforts on inviting investment and 170.3 billion yuan was issued for the four contiguous poor areas. A total of 56.925 billion yuan was invested in the major projects of 7 key counties and cities for building a well-off society, up 44.83% over the previous year. The Provincial United Front Work Department and the Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce launched Guangcai projects in Wuling Mountain Area and Danjiangkou Reservoir Area, promoted the signing of 108 agreements on project implementation in Enshi and Shiyan with an investment of 45.6 billion yuan and 51.43 billion yuan respectively. Yichang City attracted Nongsheng Company to invest 150 million yuan in the development of ecological agriculture in three villages and invited Fengmai New Energy Company and Tangshi Group to invest 400 million yuan and 500 million yuan respectively in local mpoverished villages.
【Poverty-relief relocation】Combining poverty-relief relocation with entire village advancement, the development of agricultural bases, new rural construction, small town building and transfer employment boosting, we must make sure to achieve “affordable relocation, steady progress, development and poverty reduction”. In 2013, Hubei Province invested a total of 66 million yuan of central government’s poverty-relief funds, 20.35 million yuan of provincial matching funds, integrated 88.7 million yuan of sectorial funds and 480.17 million yuan of other funds to relocate 11261 households and 44412 people, overfulfilling the task by 12.6%, addressing the poverty and long-term development problem of relocated poor households.
【Rain Plan】Adhering to the principle of “guidance by plan, funds to the county, trainings to households, subsidies to the people, department collaboration and whole process supervision”, we further promoted the propaganda and investigation, farmers’ application and audit by relevant department, public announcement, object identification, funds disbursement, archives finishing, supervision and inspection work. In 2013, we put in a total of financial anti-poverty funds of 52.654 million yuan, transferred and trained 55194 rural poor labors (including the training of 22281 people for Rain Plan pilot program), accounting for 110.4% of the planned task, including secondary vocational trainings for 38650 people, higher vocational trainings for 10194 people and short-term skills trainings for 6350 people.
【Construction of old revolutionary base areas】In 2013, learning from the practice of entire village advancement, the province selected one poor village from each of the 309 key towns for old revolutionary base construction and issued 111.24 million yuan of special funds to address the production and living problems of the poor villages. Implemented 1378 projects with an investment of 32.195 million yuan, including 542 infrastructure projects involving farmland and water conservancy, traffic and drinking water supply; developed 700 production projects with an investment of 71.45 million yuan, 58 social development projects with an investment of 3.22 million yuan, and 78 training and technology promotion projects with an investment of 5.375 million yuan. Issued 8.1 million yuan to support 27 key towns for old revolutionary base construction. The provincial government increased 40 million yuan of investment to support the construction of old revolutionary base areas and scattered poverty reduction and, through competition, determined to launch entire village advancement in 12 key old revolutionary towns and four towns for scattered poverty reduction and invested 2.5 million yuan to support each contiguous poor area.
【Pilot areas of poverty alleviation】Pilot Work of Poverty Reduction for Building A Well-off Society. Adhering to taking the project as a carrier, we vigorously promoted infrastructure construction, featured industrial development and the implementation of other major projects. A total of 56.944 billion yuan was planned to be invested in the major projects of seven counties (cities) and actually 61.657 billion yuan was invested, accounting for 108.28% of the annual plan. Among them, 13 provincial departments issued 3.786 billion yuan of special funds for the seven counties and cities, up 13% over the previous year, the fixed-point poverty alleviation units issued 1.1899 billion yuan of anti-poverty funds, a total of 1.902 billion yuan of bank loans was issued and 58.56 million yuan was invested by relevant enterprises.
In 2013, the seven pilot counties recorded a GDP of 59.223 billion yuan, an industrial added
value of 20.075 billion yuan and local public fiscal budget revenue of 3.54 billion yuan, respectively 2.34, 2.88 and 3.8 times that of 2008; the collective economic income of the 1411 villages reached 50,000 yuan, accounting for 85.26% of the total revenue of administration villages; the rural per capita net income reached 6050 yuan, with an increase of 2195 yuan over 2008, and we successfully achieved the objective of the five-year pilot program.
Pilot reform of integrated poverty reduction in Longfeng Town. With Longfeng Town as the pilot point and Enshi City as the pilot area, we officially launched the pilot reform of integrated poverty reduction in the field of returning farmland to forest, poverty-relief relocation, town building through resettlement and industrial structure adjustment. The provincial government issued the “Implementation Opinions on Promoting the Pilot Reform of Integrated Poverty Alleviation in Longfeng Town of Enshi City”, the provincial, prefectural and city government increased investment, integrated relevant resources and made innovations to the systems and mechanisms, the central and provincial government issued 877 million yuan of pilot project funds to support Longfeng Town, mainly supporting poverty-relief relocation, township building for resettlement, returning farmland to forest and industrial structure adjustment.
Pilot program of revitalization and development of Chaihu Town. Set up the Provincial Great
Chaihu Development Zone and accelerated the centralized resettlement of immigrants and the revitalization and development of Chaihu Town adhering to making overall deployments for urban and rural development, synchronization of four modernizations and five-in-one. The provincial government issued the “Guidance on Supporting Chaihu to Accelerate Economic and Social Development” and put forward 14 support policies. From 2013 to 2015, annual investment of 300 million yuan will be issued for the poverty alleviation projects in Chaihu Development Zone to improve local infrastructure and living conditions.
Pilot program of central lottery funds. In 2012, 557 pilot projects were launched in Yingshan County, Badong County and Fangxian County of Hubei Province with a total investment of 107.552 million yuan. In 2013, six counties of Huei Province were identified as the pilot area for the program, namely Hefeng County, Changyang County, Xiaochang County, Tuanfeng County, Yunxi County and Baokang County. The project proposals of the pilot counties were approved by LGOP and the projects are being implemented smoothly.
Pilot Project of Village-level Mutual Funds. The pilot work was launched in 360 villages of the 29 key counties (cities) for poverty alleviation and development, covering a total of 46921 households, including 30652 poverty-stricken households, 65.3% of the total. The mutual-aid societies issued a total of 78.33 million yuan of loans, of which 66.35 million yuan was issued to poor households, accounting for 85% of the total; 20643 poor households borrowed money from the mutual-aid societies, accounting for 79% of the total. Through production development with the loans, the poor households witnessed an income growth of 1238 yuan per household.
【Social poverty alleviation】17 central organs designated for fixed-point poverty alleviation in Hubei Province invested 62.69 million yuan in kind and cash and helped introduce 390.44 million yuan of various types of funds. The provincial, city and county party and government departments directly put in 2.1 billion yuan in the fixed-point poverty alleviation and helped introduce 2.52 billion yuan. The Provincial Development and Reform Commission, Provincial departments of transportation, water conservancy, housing construction, environmental protection, civil affairs, land and resources and the South-to-North Water Diversion Bureau issued 41.3 billion yuan of industrial funds in the infrastructure construction of impoverished regions. The provincial departments of finance, economy and information technology, science and technology, forestry, agriculture, commerce, tourism, food, supply and marketing, association for science and technology and the provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences arranged 5.049 billion yuan to support the contiguous poor areas and key counties to cultivate new types of businesses and develop featured industries. The provincial departments of education, civil affairs, human society, culture, press and publications, broadcasting and TV, sports, health and family planning arranged 7.239 billion yuan to accelerate social development in poor areas and actively promote the equalization of basic public services.
The armies in Hubei and the provincial military command system invested a total of 20.85 million yuan of anti-poverty funds (including 19.18 million yuan in cash and 1.67 million yuan in kind) to support Hong’an and Macheng Old Revolutionary Base Areas. Each army-level unit was designated to provide counterpart support for one middle school or central primary school, and each division, brigade and regiment-level unit was designated to support one primary school. Cadres above regiment level were twinned with the extremely poor households or poverty-stricken families of revolutionary martyrs and servicemen and provided subsidies for needy students. The medical units mainly helped to enhance the public service capacity and organized one or two voluntary medical services every year.
Hubei Council for the Promotion of Construction in the Old Revolutionary Areas, Hubei Provincial Poverty Alleviation Foundation, the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office and the Provincial Postal Company carried out the activity of "100 Good Deeds · Care Package", donated 595,000 yuan and 2401 care packages to benefit 102 schools and 11,000 students. The Provincial Poverty Alleviation and Development Association coordinated 110 member companies and organizations to directly invest 1.2 billion yuan to the poor. The Provincial League Committee held the Project Hope Charity Party and confirmed the intention of donation of 40.88 million yuan; newly built 19 Hope primary schools and subsidized 8243 primary, middle school and college students from needy families. Raised 60 million yuan to set up 926 Hope Kitchens in the contiguous poor areas, helped 1000 poor college students and more than 3,000 needy high school students to complete their studies. Kerry Group Kuok Foundation Limited invested 30 million yuan in the construction of poverty alleviation bases in three impoverished villages.
State Ethnic Affairs Commission, State Development Bank and the governments of four provinces and municipalities including Hubei jointly signed the cooperation agreement on promoting the pilot work of poverty reduction in Wuling Mountain Area. The Postal Savings Bank Hubei Branch and the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office jointly carried out the activity of "Sunshine Credit". The Provincial Women's Federation launched the secured petty loans for women and issued more than 16900 loans of 1.199 billion yuan. Hubei Province Women's Federation Small and Micro Enterprises Cooperatives issued a total of 310 million yuan of loans, and the Provincial Federation of the Disabled allocated 48 million yuan of poverty-relief funds for rehabilitation and discount funds of 2.8 million yuan to help 3473 disabled people find a job.
【Development of rural cooperatives】As of the end of 2013, the province had a total of 38,000 farmers’ cooperatives in poor regions of the old revolutionary base areas and 26.5% of the rural households in the province joined the cooperatives. Huanggang City established 1809 farmers’ cooperatives. Wufeng County carried out the poverty alleviation through "professional cooperation" and supported the construction of more than 40,000 mu of featured industrial bases by impoverished households. Actively promoted the reform of poverty alleviation loan discount program, improved the responsibility assessment system for corporate poverty alleviation, arranged household loan interest discount subsidy of 11.25 million yuan, issued petty discount loans of 225 million yuan for 5620 poverty-stricken households, 4000 yuan per household, increasing the income of farmers by 1042 yuan per household.
(Hubei Provincial Poverty Alleviation and Development Office)
Poverty Alleviation and Development in Hunan Province
【Overview】In 2013, to complete the scheduled task, Hunan Province adopted effective
measures to promote the anti-poverty work and achieved new results. Constantly improved the infrastructure in impoverished areas and further improved the public service levels. The economic and social development showed a good trend, the rural per capita net income of the key counties for poverty alleviation and development continued to increase significantly, exceeding the provincial average level, and there was a reduction of 1.27 million in the rural poverty-stricken people.
【Investment of poverty-relief funds】In 2013, Hunan Province implemented 1.66 billion yuan of central and provincial anti-poverty funds, of which 1.39 billion yuan was from the central government and 270 million yuan was provincial matching funds.
【Management of poverty-relief funds】1. Improved the management system. According to "Measures on the Management of Financial Anti-poverty Funds of Hunan province", we formulated a series of management measures, including the anti-poverty fund allocation based on relevant factors and the proposal of empowering lower authorities to approve the projects, strictly implemented the relevant systems, obeyed the relevant laws and regulations, achieved the standardized and institutionalized management of funds and improved the efficiency of the poverty-relief funds.
2. Implemented performance evaluation. Hunan Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office and Hunan Provincial Department of Finance jointly issued a notice on the implementation of performance evaluation of financial anti-poverty funds issued to 48 key counties in 2012 to promote the standardized use of poverty-relief project funds. Hunan was rated Grade B in the evaluation.
3. Carried out self-inspection and self-correction. To implement the spirit of the 26th executive meeting of the State Council, combined with the audit opinions and suggestions, we carried out the self-inspection and self-correction activities in the use of financial poverty-relief funds issued to the relevant cities, prefectures and counties from 2012 to 2012, and addressed the problems of possible corruption, embezzlement, misappropriation, illegal project adjustment and idle retention to prevent risks.
【Poverty alleviation in contiguous poor areas】1. Promoted the implementation
of planning. Comprehensively completed the declaration, review and approval of the regional development and poverty alleviation planning for Wuling Mountain Area and Luoxiao Mountain Area of Hunan Province, guided county governments to prepare local poverty alleviation planning, successively launched more than 2000 key projects with a total investment of more than 100 billion yuan.
2. Introduced preferential policies. Issued a series of policy documents to support the development of contiguous poor areas, including the "Several Opinions on Supporting the Rural Primary Education and the Medical Service Personnel Development in Wuling Mountain Area" (under the leadership of the Provincial Party Committee Organization Department), the "Several Opinions on Supporting the Regional Development and Poverty Reduction in Wuling Mountain Area and Luoxiao Mountain Area" (under the leadership of the Provincial Department of Land and Resources) and the Opinions on Promoting the Creation of Demonstration Zones for National Unity in Wuling Mountain Area" (under the leadership of the Provincial Ethnic Affairs Commission), etc.
3. Increased financial investment. 73.1% of the central and provincial financial poverty-relief funds was issued to promote the poverty reduction in the two major contiguous poor areas.
【Entire village advancement】Combining the entire village advancement of poor villages with the poverty reduction in cold highland of minority areas, the province allocated 365 million yuan to launch the second round of entire village advancement in 453 national poor villages and 211 minority cold highland areas, and vigorously launched the project of access to water, electricity, road, gas, housing and environmental improvement for rural households. A total of 226.5 million yuan of relief funds was invested in 453 national poor villages, covering 685,600 people and directly benefiting 268,900 people; developed planting area of more than 200,000 mu, including 42600 mu for the transformation of low-yield bamboos, 19,000 mu of camellia bases, 41400 mu of vegetables,56400 mu of fruits, 26800 mu of tobacco and 14,000 mu of Chinese herbs; bred 1.15 million poultries and 115,000 heads of livestock; and built village roads of 248 km, canals of 68 kilometers, 89 ponds, drinking water pipelines of 89 kilometers and 108 pools. 138.5 million yuan of financial anti-poverty funds was issued to 211 minority cold highland areas.
【Effective convergence of two systems】Hunan Province took it as a practical thing to do for the people to directly support 800,000 poor people through the effective convergence of two systems, issued the "Circular on Doing Practical Things for the People and Supporting 800,000 Objects of Poverty Reduction to Develop Production in 2013", assigned the assessment targets to the relevant cities and counties and clarified the responsibilities. In accordance with the overall requirements of "poverty alleviation program, project planning, three to households in fund issuance, support responsibility, project construction and three to people in the contact work", the province allocated special funds of 320 million yuan to launch more than 200,000 production projects among thousands of households, increasing the income of farmers by more than 2000 yuan per household.
【Pilot project of renovation of dilapidated houses for the poor】The Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office and the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-rural Development
formulated the "Opinions on Further Promoting the Renovation of Dilapidated Houses for the Poor", conducted renovation of dilapidated houses for 800,000 people from 250,000 households living in dangerous houses or without houses, and launched the pilot projects of subsidizing each household with 50,000 yuan in Pingjiang (40,000 yuan from the Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-rural Development and 10,000 yuan was poverty-relief funds).
【Industry poverty alleviation】According to the requirements of two 70% put forward by LGOP, we formulated the industrial poverty alleviation planning for Wuling Mountain Area and Luoxiao Mountain Area of Hunan Province and developed the "Guiding Opinions on Strengthening Industrial Poverty Reduction". Arranged nearly 200 million yuan of special funds for key industries, highlighting the featured competitive industries such as tea and oil-tea camellia industry; invested more than 40 million yuan of financial anti-poverty funds and guided the issuance of more than 500 million yuan of loans to support 181 leading agricultural enterprises (farmers’ specialized cooperatives) and industrial bases; and made steady progress in promoting the pilot work of petty loans, public lottery funds, mutual funds and technology promotion. The implementation of key industrial poverty alleviation projects could increase output value by 2.19 billion yuan and increase profit by 750 million yuan, benefited 239,000 rural poverty-stricken people and increased their income by 1040 yuan per capita. Meanwhile, we invested 133.3 million yuan of anti-poverty funds to support the poverty alleviation and development in 68 counties and launched nearly 1000 projects of industrial development, technical training and infrastructure construction, etc.
【Rain Plan】To meet the requirements of national medium- and long-term education reform
and development, according to the spirit of Rain Plan implementation mode reform put forward by
LGOP, we re-identified 67 poverty alleviation training bases, put in financial anti-poverty funds of
156 million yuan, held relevant trainings and provided subsidies directly to the poor; completed the vocational education and transfer trainings of 61848 people, subsidized 3200 needy college students in Xiangxi Prefecture, held trainings of technological leaders and college student village cadres for 5288 person-times and organized practical skills trainings for 214,000 person-times.
【Pilot areas for financial poverty alleviation】Hunan Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office and the State Development Bank Hunan Branch jointly explored new paths for industrial poverty alleviation supported by finance, and launched the pilot projects in Huaihua City and five counties, namely Yuanling, Shimen, Guzhang, Yongsan and Chengbu County. The Development Bank provided a credit loan of 200 million yuan to support the development of local tea and fishery industry in Yuanling County. Meanwhile, we developed the "Guiding Opinions on the Management of Loan Interest Discount Funds for Industrial Poverty Alleviation in Hunan Province", increased discount loans for poverty reduction and increased credit loans, addressing the fund shortage of the poor.
【Construction of old revolutionary base areas】In 2013, Hunan Council for the Promotion
of Economic Development in Old Revolutionary Base Areas issued a total of 20 million yuan of anti-poverty funds for the old revolutionary base areas in the province, supported the construction of 324 infrastructure projects with 15.45 million yuan, involving rural road and water conservancy construction, and supported 52 farming, agricultural technology promotion and training projects with 4.55 million yuan, and the executive member units of the province invested 6.85 million yuan to support the implementation of 205 projects in the old revolutionary base areas, directly benefiting 117,000 people in the old revolutionary base areas of 95 counties in 14 cities and prefectures.
【Food for work】Developed the Food for Work Program within the central government budget for Hunan Province in 2013. Highlighted rural small infrastructure construction in poor areas, increased and improved irrigation area of 50,000 mu, newly built and increased rural roads of 400 km, established 25 independent bridges and culverts of 200 linear meters, solved the traffic problem of 300,000 people; built 30 impounding reservoirs, water pipelines of 8300 linear meters, and solved the drinking water problem of 83,000 people and 24,000 heads of livestock. Focusing on the drainage canal system building for watersheds in Dongting Lake of Hunan Province, we dredged and renovated electric drainage canals of 360 km and 168 watergates, upgraded 65 sets of electrical drainage equipment of 16,000 kilowatts, and issued 85 million yuan of demonstration project funds for infrastructure construction to support the program of Food for Work, involving 25 projects.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】14 central organs sent more than 20 cadres to support the poverty reduction in poor counties with a total investment of 80 million yuan or more; held trainings of cadres, technicians and rural labors for more than 6000 person-times and organized labor transfer for more than 2000 person-times. The State Ethnic Affairs Commission sent cadres to support the poverty reduction in the counties of Wuling Mountain Area in Hunan Province. Six provincial administered cities invested 25.9 million yuan directly in the six counties of Xiangxi (including 24.4 million yuan in cash and 1.5 million yuan in kind) and helped introduce 5.7 million yuan of relief funds. The party and government organs at all levels of the province sent a total of 3050 poverty alleviation teams and more than 12,000 cadres to participate in the anti-poverty work, invested one billion yuan directly to the poor villages, helped introduce 1.5 billion yuan of various types of funds and implemented a number of urgently needed projects for the masses, improving the infrastructure, production and living conditions and enhanced the self-development capacity of impoverished villages.
【Monitoring of poverty reduction objects】In accordance with the requirements of precise
poverty alleviation, we continued to carry out monitoring on the development of key counties and impoverished villages, the basic information, residential, population and labor employment information of rural households, as well as the family situation of the surveyed households. Launched the action plan to establish cards for archives, included all poverty reduction objects into the county, city and district plan and carried out the identification and registration work according to relevant procedures.
【Poverty alleviation by army and armed police forces】Further promoted the implementation of the project of "2211 Troops’ Support for Building A Well-off Society in Old Revolutionary Base Areas". The troops stationed in Hunan identified a total of 25 poor villages for poverty reduction, directly invested 17 million yuan, helped introduce 40 million yuan of investment and helped introduce 120 projects. Held more than 100 skills trainings for 21,000 rural labors and established a number of high-tech farming bases and militia technology demonstration zones.
【Poverty alleviation by enterprises and all circles of society】The Provincial United Front Work Department, the Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce and the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office jointly promoted the activities for ten thousand enterprises to support poor villages for common development, covering more than 13 million rural residents. Giving play to the role of the Provincial Poverty Alleviation Foundation, jointly with the Provincial League Committee and the Provincial Women's Federation, we extensively carried out the activities of "Postal Care Package", "Nesting Action" and "Safety of Mother and Baby ", attracting more than 200 million yuan of relief funds and materials. Meanwhile, we strengthened international exchange and promoted the implementation of foreign-funded poverty alleviation projects.
【Poverty alleviation institution construction】Comprehensively completed the selection and appointment of cadres after institutional upgrading and there was 42 personnel changes in 2013, including the promotion of 35 cadres and the acceptance of two ex-servicemen. In addition, we held 34 trainings on poverty alleviation for 2459 cadres, improving the business level of poverty relief cadres.
(Leng Ling, Hunan Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office)
Poverty Alleviation and Development in
Guangdong Province
【Overview】2013 is the first year for a new round of poverty alleviation and development
characterized by “planning for specific households and responsibility for specific persons” in
Guangdong. To actively implemented the spirit of the provincial poverty alleviation and development work conference, in accordance with the strategic deployment made by the provincial government on promoting the revitalization and development of northeast and northwest regions of Guangdong, focusing on promoting poverty alleviation by revitalization and promoting revitalization by poverty reduction, adhering to government leadership, sector cooperation and social participation, relevant departments at all levels mobilized all forces of the province to provide support for 21 key counties for poverty alleviation and development, 2571 key villages for poverty reduction, 209,000 relatively poor households with the ability to work and 906,000 relatively poor residents in the villages, vigorously promoted the implementation of a new round of poverty reduction, boosted the revitalization and development of the northwest and northeast areas of Guangdong and accelerating the pace of poverty reduction and building a well-off society in less developed regions, striving to achieve the overall objective of “three orientations and two leads” in the province.
According to statistics, in 2013, the relevant local governments and aiding units put in a total
of 5.465 billion yuan of relief funds, of which 4.898 billion yuan was used to support the project construction in key poor villages, 1.9049 million yuan per village, and 567 million yuan was used for poor households to shake off poverty, 2402.67 yuan per household, achieving initial results. In 2013, the key villages concerned recorded a gross economic revenue of 64.0179 million yuan, 24,900 yuan per village, with an increase of 13,600 yuan over the initial stage of the project; and the annual per capita net income of poor households was 4439.51 yuan, with an increase of 1912.4 yuan. In the key villages concerned, the participation rate of the minimum living security system, the five-guarantee system, the urban and rural residents’ social pension system and the basic medical insurance system as well as the school enrollment rate of children from needy families all reached 100%.
【Poverty alleviation mechanism】Further promoted the “Shuangdao” work, held the provincial poverty alleviation and development work conference in the name of the provincial committee and government, issued the “Implementation Plan for A New Round of Poverty Alleviation and Development in Guangdong Characterized by ‘Planning for Households and Responsibility for Specific Persons’ and the Counterpart Support for Key Counties (Cities)” (Yue Ban Fa No. [2013] 14), included the poor households meeting the conditions for receiving subsistence allowances and with the ability for self-development into the objects of development-oriented poverty alleviation and appointed certain people to provide counterpart support for them with certain responsibilities; included the poor losing the ability to work but meeting the conditions for receiving subsistence allowances into the minimum living security system and gradually enhanced the standards of subsistence allowance to achieve the effective convergence between the minimum living security system and the poverty alleviation and development; and relocated the farmers living in places with poor conditions.
【Industry poverty alleviation】In 2013, the aid units of the province launched a total of 26987 village projects with an investment of 4.834 billion yuan, benefiting 812818 households and 168643 impoverished families. Among the village poverty alleviation projects, 3373 were production projects, 1.3 per village, playing an important role in leading the farmers to develop competitive industries and increasing farmers’ income. Meanwhile, we launched the pilot work of mutual funds in impoverished villages, comprehensively implemented the pilot work of rural petty loans to solve the financial bottlenecks for production development of farmers. Strengthened the construction of poverty alleviation leading agricultural enterprises and cultivated a number of large and medium-sized poverty alleviation leading enterprises to promote the income growth of poor farmers. Organized the farmers to develop planting and breeding industry, created the new development carrier of farmland equity participation and increased the production and income of farmers. Made steady progress in the “Dayu Cup” competition for integrated governance of mountains, water system, farmland, forests and roads, improved the agricultural production conditions, promoted high-yield farmland building and increased the production and income of farmers.
【Assessment and appraisal】According to the "Measures on the Assessment and Acceptance of ‘Shuangdao’ Work in the Poverty Alleviation and Development of Guangdong Province", 240 provincial and central organs, 21 cities above prefecture level, Shunde District and 83 counties (cities, districts) carried out comprehensive assessment on the “Shuangdao” work performance in the poverty alleviation and development from 2010 to 2012. The average score of 3407 impoverished villages in the poverty reduction was 98.72, 3362 villages got the score of more than 90, and the excellence rate reached 98.68%. The General Office of the Provincial Party Committee, the General Office of the Provincial Government, the Provincial Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation and Development and the Working Committee of the Provincial Organs praised a total of 2371 outstanding units and collectives and 2745 excellent dispatched cadres in the poor villages.
【Transformation and relocation】Implemented housing renovation and construction projects for rural low-income households with difficulties in housing. As of the end of 2013, we invested a total of 1.5 billion yuan of construction funds, 15,000 yuan per household, completed the housing renovation for 100,000 rural households; completed the relocation of 15,000 rural households of impoverished villages without production and living conditions; organized local governments to carry out special governance of housing renovation subsidy funds for rural low-income households with difficulties in housing, effectively corrected a variety of irregularities that did not comply with the policy to ensure the safety of funds; and actively coordinated the allocation of relocation subsidies for the impoverished villages without production and living conditions to ensure timely completion of the relocation task.
【Construction of old revolutionary base areas】Actively supported the construction and development of old revolutionary base areas, arranged 10 million yuan of relief funds for each of the seven counties in the former Central Soviet Area and one million yuan for each of the key villages supported by provincial and central organs in Guangdong in a new round of poverty alleviation and development. Carried out the declaration and identification of key counties in former Central Soviet Area, increased Meijiang District, Jiaoling County, Fengshun County and Wuhua County in the list of key counties in former Central Soviet Area. As a result, there are now a total of 11 key counties in former Central Soviet Area of the province.
【East-West cooperation】As of the end of 2013, through the provincial and municipal governments at all levels, a total of 36.5 million yuan was issued to promote the construction of 23 entire village advancement demonstration villages in Baise and Hechi City of Guangxi, launched nearly 200 aid projects to benefit 12306 poor people; and held two poverty alleviation cadre training courses for nearly 200 county and department cadres and township leaders. Zhuhai City increased support for Liangshan Prefecture of Sichuan Province. As of the end of 2013, Zhuhai City issued a total 49,487,800 yuan of relief fund to implement 53 aid projects and achieved remarkable results. Eight enterprises including Livzon Group donated 7.2878 million yuan in kind and cash for Liangshan and launched 15 aid projects. LGOP held the training on East-West pairing off poverty alleviation cooperation in Liangshan Prefecture and visited the demonstration villages in Zhuhai City.
【Training and exchanges】On June 7, the province held the training of cadres sent to poor
villages on the “Shuangdao” work in a new round of poverty alleviation and development, involving more than 240 cadres sent to the poor villages. From September 23 to 26, LGOP held in Guangdong Province the national seminar for directors of local poverty alleviation offices of various cities. More than 200 people from 153 local poverty alleviation offices of 28 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) attended the five-day seminar. Organized the provincial training of poverty alleviation management cadres, the provincial training on industrial poverty alleviation, the provincial training on mutual funds, the provincial training on “Shuangdao” information management in the poverty alleviation and development and the provincial training on poverty alleviation monitoring, etc., involving more than 1100 cadres at all levels, laying a foundation for the implementation of the poverty alleviation and development work.
【Poverty alleviation publicity】Focusing on the “Shuangdao” work in the province's
new round of poverty alleviation, we actively made propagandas on poverty alleviation to create
a good atmosphere for helping the poor. As of the end of 2013, we published 47 "Briefings on Poverty Alleviation in Guangdong Province" and released more than 300 pieces of news, effective promoting the exchange of experience of various regions. Prepared and issued the "Ten Major Poverty Alleviation Patterns of Guangdong Province" and the "Guangdong’s Poverty Alleviation in the Eyes of Reporters", and summarized the “Shuangdao” work of the previous round of poverty alleviation and development work for the poverty alleviation offices at all levels, aiding units and village cadres to learn. The major media under the central government, industry media and the media sponsored by LGOP released and reprinted a total of 151 reports on the poverty alleviation and development work in Guangdong Province.
(Guangdong Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office)
Poverty Alleviation and Development in
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Regions
【Overview】In 2013, Guangxi had a total of 50 key counties for poverty alleviation and development, of which 28 were national key counties, one (Heshan City) enjoyed the same treatment as national key counties and 21 was regional key counties. The entire village advancement projects were launched to 3000 impoverished villages during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period. Adhering to taking contiguous poor areas, key counties and impoverished villages at the main battlefields for poverty alleviation and development, we made steady progress in boosting the infrastructure construction, industrialization poverty alleviation, self-development capacity building of the poor, social poverty alleviation and the integrated governance of extremely poor regions, earnestly promoted the implementation and management of various poverty-relief projects and achieved new results in the poverty alleviation and development. The number of poverty-stricken people in Guangxi fell to 6.34 million, with a decline of 1.21 million compared to the previous year, down 16%.
【Investment of poverty-relief funds】In 2013, a total of 2.621 billion yuan of financial anti-poverty funds was invested in Guangxi, of which 1.42128 billion yuan was from the central government, 249 million yuan was Food-for-work funds, 206.55 million yuan was minority funds, 421.7 million yuan was from Guangxi regional government and 322.7 million yuan was from the city and county governments. The regional, municipal and county governments actually allocated anti-poverty funds of 744.3777 million yuan, with an increase of 110.6193 million yuan over 2012, up 14.86%. 1.5583 billion yuan of financial relief funds was invested in the stony desertification areas of Yunnan, Guangxi and Guizhou and the key counties for national poverty alleviation and development (including three counties that withdrew from the poverty reduction system but still received support during the “12th Five-Year Plan period), accounting for 59.5% of the total annual investment of financial anti-poverty funds of Guangxi.
【Infrastructure construction】In 2013, Guangxi invested 900.41 million yuan to support the infrastructure construction in poor areas, completed the construction of 4890 village roads of 4255.5 km and 227 independent bridges of 4150.8 linear meters, the renovation of 54 water damaged roads of 91.6 km, the construction of 485 drinking water projects for people, 39 small water conservancy projects and 30 small dock and retaining wall projects. Special funds of five million yuan was issued for the fifth phase of project of urban and rural appearance improvement. Built 46 village roads of 20 km, benefiting 3767 households and 16198 people. As a result, the production and living conditions of the masses were constantly improved and the villages took on an entirely new look.
【Industry poverty alleviation】In 2013, Guangxi used the poverty-relief discount funds to guide and issuance of 1.8 billion yuan of poverty-relief funds from financial institutions, supported 175 poverty alleviation leading enterprises to develop production, issued household poverty reduction funds of 2.19187 billion yuan to support 84,000 poor rural households to develop industries; and invested 411.51 million yuan of financial anti-poverty funds to support the development of featured industries.
Developed planting area of 657,000 mu, transformed low-yield farmland of 371,000 mu, bred 4.207 million poultries and 79900 heads of livestock, and engaged in aquaculture of 2.24 million kg. The first batch of projects covered 2236 villages, including 1971 impoverished villages, and 246,000 poor households, benefiting about 998,000 people; the second batch of projects covered 1547 villages, including 1106 impoverished villages, and 106,000 poor households, benefiting about 464,000 people.
【Demonstration projects】The “Ten, Hundred and Thousand” demonstration project of industrialization poverty alleviation is a key poverty reduction project supported by Guangxi Committee and Government during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period. In 2013, special relief funds of 120 million yuan was issued for the “Ten, Hundred and Thousand” demonstration project of industrialization poverty alleviation to support 40 key counties of the region (of which 24 were national key counties (including the counties enjoying the same treatment) and 15 regional key counties) to develop silkworm, sugar cane, oil-tea camellia, bamboo, tea, honeysuckle, chrysanthemum medicine, passion fruit, grapes, rabbit, egg, tilapia, transformation of low-yield bamboo and tea parks, involving planting area of 89,000 mu, the transformation of low-yield bamboo and tea parks and the breeding of 45,000 poultries and 128,000 heads of livestock and 1540 boxes of tilapia.
【Poverty alleviation training of the “Rain Plan”】In 2013, 127.1 million yuan of financial anti-poverty funds was issued for labor trainings for 323575 person-times; 20 million yuan was invested for the practical skills trainings of farmers for 260584 person-times; 107.1 million yuan was invested for labor transfer trainings of 62991 people from poor villages, of which 42 million yuan was invested in vocational education, benefiting 20800 people; 5 million yuan was invested in education of bachelor degree of regular institutions of higher learning, subsidizing 1000 students; 45 million yuan was invested in the short-term skills trainings of 30,000 people; 15.1 million yuan was invested in the pilot reform of the “Rain Plan” implementation mode with planned targets of 18872 people, actually benefiting 11191 people, and the uncompleted adjustment will be implemented next year. 3.7146 million yuan was invested in cadre trainings for 5817 people.
【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】7677 central, regional, city and county organs in Guangxi sent a total of 30,000 instructors for new rural construction (including 3000 first secretaries of poor villages) to serve 14353 administrative villages, achieving full coverage of 3000 poor villages for entire village advancement during the “12th Five-Year Plan”. In 2013, the central, regional, city and county (city, district) aiding units directly put in relief funds of 632.3974 million yuan (including materials) and introduced 1.016209 billion yuan of various kinds of funds for impoverished regions. The armies supported the construction of 121 rural construction demonstration zones and 136 poverty alleviation points, contacted more than 120 projects to enrich people and coordinated more than 76 million yuan of investment, directly benefiting nearly 6.5 million people.
At the same time, a total of more than 3340 private entrepreneurs of Guangxi participated in the Glorious Cause (i.e.: A poverty alleviation and development-oriented cause implemented by Chinese private entrepreneurs to respond to the call of the “Seven-year Priority Poverty Alleviation Program”), implemented 3272 projects with a total investment of 2.37 billion yuan., held trainings for 230,000 people (times), provided jobs for 512,000 people (times), addressed the food and clothing problem of 2.55 million people and donated a total of 1.05 billion yuan for public welfare establishments such as poverty reduction, school, hospital, bridge and road building.
【Guangdong - Guangxi cooperation in poverty alleviation】Guangdong Province, Guangzhou City, Dongguan City and all levels of governments, departments and the communities provided grants of 56,474,600 yuan (including goods converted into money) for Guangxi, of which 35 million yuan was provincial and municipal financial funds. Guangdong and Guangxi signed 1762 economic and trade cooperation projects with a planned investment of 245.7 billion yuan. Guangdong Province already issued 251.6 billion yuan (including continued construction funds). Guangdong assisted Guangxi in holding 63 trainings for 5600 person-times, including cadre trainings for 1610 person-times. In 2013, a total of 4.669 million people worked in Guangdong Province, of whom, 599,800 people were increased migrant workers this year, and 159900 labors were from 49 poor counties (districts) of Guangxi, and the net income of the migrant workers of poor areas was 1.9188 billion yuan. Supported the construction of 23 demonstration villages for entire village advancement in Baise and Hechi City, benefiting 2940 households and 12925 people; further promoted the counterpart poverty alleviation in the region. Nine cities including Nanning allocated anti-poverty funds of 18.6 million yuan to support 11 key counties for poverty reduction, with an increase of 3.35 million yuan over the previous year.
【Entire village advancement】On the basis of the implementation of entire village advancement projects in 2219 impoverished villages in 2012, Guangxi launched the remaining projects for 781 impoverished villages to achieve the goal of boosting the development of 3000 poor villages during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period. In 2013, Guangxi invested a total of 6.0885022 billion yuan for the comprehensive governance of impoverished villages (including the projects invested last year but launched this year. 1.474414 billion yuan was central government’s financial anti-poverty funds, 509.2023 million yuan was local financial anti-poverty funds, 3.53978 billion yuan was integrated sector funds and 565.1059 million yuan was other funds). Through the implementation of entire village advancement, most of the poor villages witnessed rapid development in infrastructure, featured industries, social undertakings and ecological construction, the self-development capacity of the poor was significantly enhanced and a number of poor villages covered by entire village advancement program became the demonstration villages of new socialist countryside.
【Actions to Vitalize Border Areas and Enrich Local Residents】Implementation Plan for the Grand Action of Vitalizing Border Areas and Enriching the People in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region” was adopted and a total of 532 million yuan was invested in the program for the period from 2012 to 2016. In 2013, 294 million yuan was planned to be invested. In fact, 272 million yuan was issued and the investment of 239 million yuan was completed. Among the 29 projects for the Campaign, 27 were launched. Meanwhile, the scheduled task for the construction of six types of projects was completed, namely the rural drinking water safety, border grid support capability building, residential housing of the border line, public rental housing of border officials and teachers, standardization of township hospitals and infrastructure construction for industrial development.
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