POVERTY REDUCTION BRIEFING 2013-VII

1. Tibet Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development (TOPAD) carried out a survey on the household-based poverty alleviation program. Recently, TOPAD conducted a survey on the household-based poverty alleviation program across Tibet,by means of which it summarized the best practices and experience in other regions,and analyzed the difficulties and problems faced by Tibet in implementing its household-based poverty alleviation program. Based on the survey, TOPAD put forward suggestions and recommendations for the improvement and sound development of the program. The survey sampled at random the administrative villages and asked questions on the following aspects – facts and circumstances of the village, facts and circumstances of the targeted groups of the program, and the areas and means of poverty alleviation most needed by the people.
Source: Tibet Daily June 5 th , 2013
2. Village-level Industrial Development Funds for Poverty Alleviation helped boost the income of farmers and herdsmen. It is known that 100 impoverished villages are entitled to village-level industrial development funds this year. Each of
them is entitled to 1 million yuan worth of provincial-level industrial development fund and 1 million yuan worth of poverty alleviation credit. The amount of the membership fees paid by impoverished household is determined case by case, with the minimum payment for each household being 500 yuan. The Village-level Industrial Development Funds are managed and supervised by villagers democratically and in a way to ensure that loans are repaid in time and funds grow increasingly larger. The focus of the funds is to provide poor villagers with loans on production projects with quick return on investment.
Source: CNR June 5 th , 2013
3. Qianjiang District was developed with funds’ investment nearing 300 million yuan. The transportation in Shuangpu, Jingzu and Shuangyan – three impoverished villages in Qianjiang -- is extremely inconvenient. In February 2012, Qianjiang District obtained poverty-alleviation fund worth 15 million yuan from the Centralized Lottery Welfare Fund, and channeled poverty-alleviating fund worth 270 million yuan from various entities in the District to develop the area covering the 3 villages. In the area, 32 roads totaling 159.1km connecting 45 impoverished teams of the villages were built and expanded, addressing the transportation difficulties for 10 thousand people. In the area, 2,816 households in 10 impoverished villages had access to clean tap water, and 607 households built biogas tanks. Many villagers have renovated their houses to develop agritainment utilizing the unique local mountain resources. As a result, the income of the local people has increased.
Source: Chongqing Daily  June 9 th , 2013
4. The Special Program on University Enrollment in impoverished regions of Hunan Province expanded to incorporate three new counties. On June 4 th , Hunan Provincial Education Examination Board announced the expansion of the special program targeted at students in impoverished areas of the province. In addition to the 37 counties in extreme poverty listed in the program last year, three counties which are the emphasis of the national poverty alleviation program are included in this year’s program. The planned enrolment headcounts increased from 674 last year to 1,231 this year. Following Chinese premier Li Keqiang’s stress to “further increase the proportion of students from impoverished areas in key universities”, the planned enrolment headcounts of this year’s Special Program increased to 30 thousand from
last year’s 10 thousand. 
Source: Hunan Daily  June 4 th , 2013
5. Xiaojin County of Sichuan Province delivered a remarkably good result in combating poverty by addressing the poverty of 40 extremely impoverished villages. In a new phase of its poverty alleviation program, Xiaojin County targeted
 the program at 40 extremely poor villages. The program focused on such areas as“development of new villages” and “pilot program of poverty alleviation and development as well as prevention of kaschin beck disease”. The objective of the
program is to increase poor farmers’ income and provide them with adequate food and clothing. With this program, Xiaojin County explored a new approach to poverty alleviation through development projects and yielded marked results. Over the past decade, the County has fed and clothed 13,869 people in rural areas. The net income of farmers per head increased from 1,104 yuan in 2001 to 3,400 yuan in 2010. Their standards of living have improved substantially.
Source: Aba Daily  June 9 th , 2013
6. Gansu Province combined Two Contacts Program with poverty alleviation and development. On the morning of June 4 th , the 1 st Meeting on the Two Contacts Program (between Gansu government agencies & employees and enterprises & staff in Wudu District) was held in Lanzhou. At the meeting, the results of the recent programs at provincial, municipal, district and village levels were reviewed, and work in the next phase was deployed. Ma Qinglin, Deputy Director of Standing Committee of Gansu Provincial People’s Congress, stressed that all agencies should effectively combine the Two Contacts Program with the poverty alleviation and development in terms of the objective, function and mechanism, and make new breakthroughs in improving development plan, developing people-enriching industries, improving basic
conditions for production and livelihood in rural areas, breaking the bottleneck of financial constraints in rural areas, publicizing pro-agriculture policies and improving the competency of the labor force.
Source: Gansu Daily June 6 th , 2013
7. State Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People’s Republic of China (SEAC) surveyed the Wulingshan region in Guizhou Province. On June 3 rd -8 th , the Department of Economic Development of SEAC surveyed the impoverished counties in Wulingshan region, including Meitan, Wuchuan, Shiqian, Jiangkou and Songtao,on their poverty alleviation and development effort. Deputy Director-General Peng Zechang noted that SEAC has followed closely the work of poverty alleviation,development and building a well-off society in an all-round way, and would research and help solve the difficulties and problems arising out of the poverty alleviation and development. He also required the impoverished region to persistently 1) develop its unique industries, 2) strive to develop the transportation and water infrastructures and
3) develop the folk villages and carry forward and protect the folk handicraft against the trend of industrialization and urbanization, and promote the development of demoregion of ethnic cohesion and prosperity.
Source: SEAC website  June 9 th , 2013
Organizer: Beijing Normal University China Poverty Reduction Research Center

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