Poverty Alleviation and Development in Jilin Province

　　【Overview】In 2011, Jilin Province issued a total of 540.575 million Yuan of anti-poverty funds, of which 495.86 million Yuan was from the central government (financial development funds of 305.56 million Yuan, work-for-relief funds of 102 million Yuan and minority development funds of 88.3 million Yuan), and 36.66 million Yuan was provincial financial investment, up 21%. A total of 509.705 million Yuan of discount loans was issued for poverty reduction.

　　Jilin provincial government, for the fifth consecutive year, vigorously promoted the anti-poverty work, taking it as one of the major projects to improve people’s livelihood. In 2011, Jilin provincial government issued the “Work Plan of Jilin Province for Poverty Reduction of 200,000 Poor Rural Residents in 2011” (Ji Zheng Ban Ming Dian [2011] No.50), clarified the guideline and the work priorities, developed the specific measures and put forward the annual objectives. In 2011, we lifted 212,000 poor rural residents out of poverty, accounting for 106% of the scheduled task.

　　【Poverty reduction planning】 Based on the actual situations and through scientific development, Jilin Province issued the “Implementation Opinions of Jilin Province on Implementing the ‘Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)’” and the “Planning of Jilin Province on Entire Village Advancement in the 12th Five-Year Plan Period (2011-2015)”, and organized the counties, cities and districts of the province to formulate the village-level development planning for 1500 key poor villages during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period.

　　【Entire village advancement】 Jilin Province launched the entire village advancement projects in 210 impoverished villages. Aiming at developing backbone industries with local characteristics, increase the economic income of collectives and enhance the self-development capacity, it launched mutual funds, technological poverty alleviation and lottery welfare funds in poor villages to support the pilot work of entire village advancement and contiguous development in poor counties of old revolutionary base areas. The projects were implemented in two years with one overall planning. Taking counties as the platform, it integrated various agriculture-related funds and social resources for the work and ensured 70% of the financial anti-poverty funds were used in income-generating projects of the poor such as industrial development. Meanwhile, it also boosted the construction of the project of “Six Accesses to Rural Households”: water, electricity, road, gas, house and good environment. It arranged 700,000 Yuan for each impoverished villages and implemented 777 entire village advancement projects, of which 524 were industrial projects to increase income and 253 were infrastructure projects to improve the production and living conditions.

　　【Poverty alleviation achievements exhibition】  From June 10 to 15, 2011, Jilin Province successfully participated in the ”Exhibition on China’s Poverty Reduction Achievements in the New Century” and displayed its remarkable achievements made in the anti-poverty work in the past decade and the spirit of self-reliance and hardworking and rich experience of the masses and cadres in impoverished regions. Vice Premier Hui Liang Yu personally visited the Jilin Pavilion and gave instructions. Vice Governor Wang Shouchen attended the achievements exhibition. Jilin Pavilion won the organization and participation award issued by the State Council Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development. 11 advanced units and three advanced individuals in poverty alleviation and development recommended by Jilin Province were praised at the central poverty alleviation and development conference.

　　【Two systems】 Summarizing the experience of the pilot work in 2010, based on the pilot projects in two counties, Jilin Province comprehensively launched the pilot projects in eight key counties for national poverty alleviation and development. In October 2011, it held the training course for relevant leaders and personnel of the poverty alleviation offices of the key counties to study the primary survey program of poverty alleviation statistics monitoring and made deployments for the survey on the provincial anti-poverty statistics monitoring of the base period.

　　【Poverty alleviation training】 Aiming to promote the stable employment of the poor, Jilin Province seriously implemented the pilot reform of the implementation program of the Rain Plan, included all registered poor labors in Da’an City and Tongyu County into the training program, highlighted practical skills training and improved the training quality. For the junior and senior middle school graduates from needy families, it mainly organized mid- and long-term trainings; for young and middle-aged poor labors, it mainly held practical skills trainings to enhance their job skills, and provided direct subsidies for the poor to participate in the training. In 2011, Jilin Province trained and transferred 22,000 impoverished labors and 90% of them found jobs. A total of 80 people in the province attended the poverty-relief cadre trainings organized by the state.

　　【Industrial poverty alleviation】 Adhering to the concept of scientific development in planning for the poverty alleviation by industrialization, it gave full play to the resource advantages of the poverty-stricken areas, promoted advanced practical technologies, boost the development of backbone industries with local characteristics, combined the entire village advancement and contiguous development with the poverty reduction by science and technology, and promoted the implementation of the project of one product for one village and one industry for one town and the development of county featured industries to give play to the scale efficiency of the project and help farmers increase income and become rich. It implemented dynamic management of poverty alleviation leading enterprises, set up the mechanism for adjustments and increased policy and credit support for the poverty alleviation leading enterprises that play a key role in driving the masses to shake off poverty, strengthening the demonstration role of leading enterprises.

　　【Social poverty alleviation】 We developed the “2011-2015 Implementation Plan of Jilin Province for Fixed-pointed Poverty Alleviation and Contracted Poverty Reduction of Provincial Leaders”, determined that the units directly under the central and provincial government and the provincial leaders should be responsible for the poverty reduction in impoverished counties and villages through signing contracts and clarified the anti-poverty tasks and requirements to give full play to the demonstration role of provincial leaders and the roles of relevant sectors and departments in poverty reduction. We actively guided the combination between various fixed-point poverty-relief resources and local poverty alleviation and development planning, the objects of poverty reduction as well as relevant poverty-relief resources. The helping units directly put in 15.68 million Yuan to introduce 21.32 million Yuan of various types of funds to support the introduction of 50 projects, 40 talents and 31 technologies, held 57 trainings for 3420 person-times, organized labor transfer for 1230 person-times and subsidized 89 poor students. Social poverty alleviation has played an important role in promoting the economic and social development of the poor areas.

　　【Poverty alleviation research】 In accordance with the arrangements and deployments of the meeting of Jilin Provincial Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development, the provincial development and reform commission (poverty alleviation office) set up three research groups jointly with the provincial financial office and provincial development and research center to conduct research on the poverty reduction of 22 villages in 14 counties (cities) of nine cities (prefectures). The research groups conducted special investigations and research on the situation of poverty reduction among the rural poor, the convergence of inclusive policies and pro-poor policies of the province, the causes of poverty of contiguous poor areas with special difficulties and the countermeasures, and submitted one comprehensive research report and three special reports to the LGOP and provincial government’s relevant leaders. The investigation and research summarized the experience and problems of the anti-poverty work of Jilin Province in the past, laying a solid basis for the anti-poverty work in the new era.

　　【Poverty alleviation publicity】 In 2011, relying on the newspapers, radio, television and Internet media, Jilin Province vigorously advocated the spirit of the central poverty relief work and the "Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China's Rural Areas. (2011-2020)", and publicized the achievements, experience and practices of Jilin Province in poverty alleviation and development in the past decade to promote the entire village advancement, labor transfer training, industrialization poverty alleviation and fixed-point poverty reduction. It sang high praise of the advanced collectives and hardworking individuals with outstanding achievements in the anti-poverty work, creating a good atmosphere for the whole society to keep a watchful eye on, support and participate in the poverty alleviation.

　　【Main measures】 First, make every effort to promote the poverty alleviation and development in contiguous poor areas with particular difficulties, focusing on the comprehensive management of the western arid salinized area and the eastern alpine mountain areas. It issued preferential policies for the contiguous poor areas, intensified the coordination through formulating and implementing poverty reduction planning, constructed a number of livelihood projects in the field of transportation, education, health, culture, employment and social security to improve the production and living conditions, accelerate the infrastructure construction of poor areas, promote the equalization of basic public services and fundamentally change the difficult situation of the two contiguous areas. Second, foster and support a number of poverty alleviation and development projects by cultivating special industries to promote industrialization poverty alleviation. We used the concept of coordinated development of Industrialization, modernization and informatization in planning for the development of poverty alleviation industry. In the western arid and saline areas, we mainly supported the farming projects such as oilseed and grain planting, sheep, cashmere goat and grassland red cattle breeding and so on. In the eastern high and cold mountain areas, we mainly boosted the development of industrial projects such as high-protein and high-oil soybean, Chinese herbal medicines, economic animals, edible fungi, Changbai Mountain delicacies food and Yanbian cattle, bees, wild boar and so on. We encouraged and guided the development of industrial projects in impoverished areas relying on local resources and conditions, continuously improved the level of organization of the poor farmers, supported the operation mode of company + cooperatives + bases + farmers of poverty alleviation leading enterprises and strengthened the development of professional rural economic associations to form the development structure of one product for one village, one industry for one town and one backbone industry for one county. We mainly constructed featured industrial projects in the two contiguous areas to help more poor people shake off poverty as soon as possible. Third, continue to focus on entire village advancement. In 2012, we launched the entire village advancement projects in another 200 poor villages, intensified the integration of resources to jointly promote the anti-poverty work and achieve the goal of lifting all the involved villages out of poverty. Fourth, increase efforts on industrial poverty alleviation and social assistance for the poor. Giving play to the role of relevant sectors and departments, in accordance with the principles of "unified planning and deployment, smooth channels and resource integration for joint force and individual merit", we vigorously boosted the infrastructure development in poor areas, integrated the funds of various sectors and departments and concentrated the resources to impoverished villages and poor people. We launched and organized a new round of fixed-point poverty alleviation participated by party and government organs, enterprises and institutions, and mobilized all circles of society to get involved in the anti-poverty work to form joint forces. Fifth, do a good job of pilot work. We continued to promote the contiguous development, strived for state grants and subsidies, steadily promoted the pilot projects of lottery welfare funds, mutual funds of poor villages and poverty reduction by science and technology, and applied for expansion of pilot area in Jilin Province.

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　　【Industry poverty alleviation】  We actively urged the institutions and enterprises directly under the central government to expand the scale of fixed-point poverty alleviation and increase efforts on the anti-poverty work. 22 state organs were appointed to provide counterpart support for 26 key banners and counties for national poverty alleviation and development and invested more than 10 million Yuan of anti-poverty funds and materials. The institutions and enterprises directly under Inner Mongolia government made steady progress in the second-phase counterpart support for Xing’an League and developed the “2011-2015 Implementation Plan of the Institutions and Enterprises Directly under Inner Mongolia Government for Counterpart Support for Impoverished Gacha Villages of Xing’an League”. In order to achieve the “226” objectives (implement two projects: strengthening infrastructure construction for agriculture and animal husbandry and cultivating leading industries; Strengthen two bases: the basis for grass-roots party organizations and specialized cooperative organizations, and the quality of farmers and herdsmen; Promote the work of "Six Accesses to Rural Households": Water, electricity, gas, radio and television, the village governance and cultural activity and health room for farmers), 105 department and bureau units in the region invested 66.5465 million Yuan of special funds for the twinned poor areas and 25.405 million Yuan of anti-poverty funds for relevant banners and counties to improve the production and living conditions of poverty-stricken Gacha villages and increase the income of farmers and herdsmen. 19 departments and bureaus supported Oroqen Autonomous Banner and Morin Dawa Daur Autonomous Banner to achieve substantive results in poverty work, implemented 158 anti-poverty projects and with an investment of 604 million Yuan, promoting the economic and social development of the two banners.

　　【Social poverty alleviation】  Social poverty alleviation work was done in various areas and the system for counterpart support and cadre contacts was set up in key Gacha villages. Hohhot City, Baotou City, Tongliao City, Bayanzhuoer City and Hulun Buir City detailed work goals, implemented the relief responsibilities and achieved outstanding results. Ordos City achieved good results in providing counterpart for Xing’an League, and the poverty reduction cooperation between Beijing and Inner Mongolia was further deepened. Inner Mongolia mobilized all circles of society to provide counterpart support for relevant poor villages and households and actively explored approaches and means for private enterprises and non-government organizations to get involved in the anti-poverty work.

　　【Fixed-point poverty alleviation】  Poverty Alleviation Office of Inner Mongolia invested 2.9 million Yuan to support Jinsha Gacha Village of Zhalaite Banner, Xing’an League, purchased 17 tons of mulching film for corn planting in a land of 3400 mu, achieving an increase of 400 jin in production per mu and an increase of 1.4 million Yuan in the income of the herdsmen in Gacha villages; newly dug 29 electromechanical wells for the water-saving irrigation of arid farmland of 3000 mu to ensure an increase in production; purchased 68 heads of fattening cattle to gradually develop fattening cattle industry; purchased harvesters, forage grass grinders, excavators, tractors and other agricultural machinery tools for the herdsmen in Gachi villages; rebuilt one brick kiln to increase the collective income of Gachi; invested 300,000 Yuan to set up the mutual fund cooperatives and solve the loan problem of the poor for production.

　　【Activities of excelling in performance】 On February 28, the Party Branch of the Department of International Cooperation and Social Poverty Alleviation of LGOP and the party committee of Poverty Alleviation Office of Inner Mongolia held in Hohhot the launching ceremony of the activities of excelling in performance. The two sides signed the agreement on the work and held seminars on specific work of the activities. The activities are important carriers for promoting the construction of a learning party, vivid practices of excelling in performance, useful exploration of strengthening Party building under the new situation and an important platform for poverty reduction by party building and party building by poverty alleviation, having a great significance to the party building, anti-poverty work and cadre team building in the new stage.

　　【Poverty alleviation and development achievements exhibition】  The “Exhibition on China’s Poverty Reduction Achievements in the New Century” jointly sponsored by LGOP and other state ministries and provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) was opened in Beijing on June 10. Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region had a separate booth in the local exhibition museum to display the brilliant achievements made by Inner Mongolia in poverty alleviation and development in the past decade. Poverty Alleviation Office of Inner Mongolia was titled as the Advanced Collective of the “Exhibition on China’s Poverty Reduction Achievements in the New Century” and won the Collaboration Contribution Award.

　　【Pilot area of central special lottery ticket public welfare fund】  In August, Damao Banner of Baotou City got, as the first in Inner Mongolia, the qualification of implementation unit of the entire village advancement project in impoverished old revolutionary base areas with central special lottery ticket public welfare fund. The contiguous development project implemented in the old revolutionary base areas of Wuke Town in Damao Banner with lottery ticket public welfare funds involved 6180 households and 20384 people from ten administrative villages and 108 natural villages, covering the development of irrigable land, planting industry, aquaculture and infrastructure construction. The total project investment was 35.1 million Yuan. After the project implementation, there will be an annual increase of 10.75 million Yuan in the net revenue, including 9.53 million Yuan in the revenue of planting industry and 1.22 million Yuan in aquaculture, and an increase of 530 Yuan in per capita income.

　　【Poverty alleviation publicity】  Combined with the Exhibition on China’s Poverty Reduction Achievements in the New Century, the promulgation and implementation of the “Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)” and the holding of central poverty relief work and Inner Mongolia’s work conference on poverty alleviation and development, making full use of the main media, web portals, poverty relief briefings and bulletin boards, Inner Mongolia vigorously publicized the main achievements and basic experience of the autonomous region in poverty alleviation and development and the state’s major decisions and deployments on the national and Inner Mongolia’s anti-poverty work and timely announced the progress made in anti-poverty work, creating a good atmosphere for the all society to concern about the cause of poverty alleviation and laying a good basis for social forces to participate in the anti-poverty work.

　　【Information monitoring center of poverty-stricken areas】 On April 30, the Organization Committee of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region approved (Nei Ji Bian Fa [2011] No. 70) the Poverty Alleviation and Development Training Center of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region was renamed the Information Monitoring Center of Impoverished Areas of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Its main functions: To bear the responsibility of monitoring the region's poverty and anti-poverty work, relevant statistical data survey, acquisition and analysis; support relevant organs of the Poverty Alleviation Office of Inner Mongolia to carry out poverty-relief network and information construction and management in the autonomous region; organize trainings of cadres for poverty alleviation system and poor areas; and provide consulting services for poverty-relief projects, etc.                            

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　　VIII. Policy Guarantee

32. Policy system

　　The state will improve its anti-poverty strategy and policy system, making it more effective in poor areas and for poor populations. The policy system will give play to the comprehensive benefits of special, industrial and social poverty alleviation efforts; integrate development-oriented poverty reduction projects with the social security system, and carry out impact assessment before initiating important policies and projects that might affect poverty reduction work.

33. Fiscal support

　　The central and local governments will increase their financial inputs to help impoverished people. The lion’s share of additional poverty reduction funding from the central budget will be used in contiguous areas with special difficulties. General transfer payments of central and provincial budget toward the poverty-stricken areas will be increased, as will the use of lottery proceeds for the purpose of poverty reduction. No tariff will be levied for state-approved domestic and foreign investment projects; foreign-funded competitive industry projects in Eastern and Central China; self-use equipment unable to be produced domestically; or technologies, accessories and spare parts imported alongside such equipment. If eligible, corporate donations to poor people can be deducted according to relevant tax regulations.

34. Favorable investment policies

　　The government will intensify input in terms of infrastructure construction, ecological environment improvement and welfare project development. It will build more village-level roads and develop agriculture comprehensively. It will also protect land resources and small river basins, control water and soil erosion, and develop hydropower in rural areas. The state-arranged projects for the consolidation of dangerous reservoirs, ecological construction, drinking water safety, supporting transformation in large irrigated areas and other public benefits projects will not receive supporting funds from government at or below county level nor government of contiguous areas with special difficulties in Western China. Governments at all levels should intensify investment support for contiguous areas with special difficulties.

35. Financial services

　　The state will continue to improve national anti-poverty discounted-interest loan policies in the following ways: actively promoting innovation of financial products and service modes in poverty-stricken areas, encouraging development of small-sum credit loans, and satisfying poor peoples’ need for funds to develop production. It will carry out anti-poverty loan projects for rehabilitation of the handicapped, enable coverage of poor areas by financial institutions and financial services, and guide civil loans to develop normally. It will also widen financing channels of poor areas and encourage financial institutions incorporated at county level in poor areas to make over 70% of their additional loans locally. The state will energetically develop insurance services in rural areas by urging insurance institutions to establish grass-roots service networks in poverty-stricken areas. It will also improve existing agriculture premium subsidy policies, inspire local communities to develop specialty agriculture insurance targeting specialty and leading industries of poor areas and strengthen the rural credit system.

36. Industrial support

　　The government will implement various industrial policies under the Western Development Project. Large-scale national projects, key projects and emerging industries should be arranged in favor of qualified poverty-stricken areas. Labor-intensive industries should be guided toward poor areas as well. Market development in poor areas should be reinforced. The state supports reasonable development and utilization of resources in poverty-stricken areas and will improve policies to support the development of specialty and competitive industries.

37. Land use

　　According to farmland protection and rural land utilization regulations, new land for construction should first be used to satisfy house-building requirements for those who are relocated from poor areas. The state will reasonably arrange land for construction in small towns and concentrated industrial parks, reclaim more land, favor eligible key counties in terms of project arrangement, and support poverty-stricken areas to exploit and utilize mineral resources in an eco-friendly and orderly way.

38. Ecological preservation

　　The state will continue to launch grain-to-green, pastureland-to-grassland, water and soil conservation, natural forest protection, and shelter forest construction projects as well as controlling desertification in Karst areas and other areas. An ecological compensation mechanism favoring poverty-stricken areas will be created and ecological compensation for key ecological function areas will be intensified. Protection of biodiversity in poor areas will be put high on the agenda.

39. Guarantee of talents

　　The government will organize personnel from the education, science, culture and health sectors and volunteers to work in poverty-stricken areas. It will also formulate policy encouraging institutions of higher learning, research institutions and medical institutions to nurture talents for poor areas. Government will guide college students to work or start business in poor areas, design incentive policies for officials who hold long-term posts in poor areas, and favor technicians of all sectors in terms of posts and job titles. It will show more care to officials who hold temporary posts in poor areas under targeted poverty reduction programs or the East-Help-West Program, making proper arrangements for their work and life so as to give full play to their advantages, engage with talents who start their own business in poverty reduction effort and give more training to officials and practical talents in poor areas.

40. Key groups on the development-oriented poverty reduction list

　　Having incorporated development-oriented poverty reduction program schemes for ethic minorities, women, children and the handicapped into its planning, the state will make unified arrangements for their implementation, give priority to their implementation when all conditions are equal and strengthen support for these groups. It will organize the implementation of a special program to revitalize border areas and enrich the local people and help smaller ethnic groups shake off poverty. It will promote women of poor households to participate in the activity of learning culture and technology, comparing performance and contribution, and will pay attention to those women and children who are left home in the countryside. The state will formulate and implement the Development-oriented Poverty Reduction Program for Disabled People in Rural Areas (2011-2020) to enhance their subsistence and development ability.

　　IX. Organizational Leadership

41. Reinforcing development-oriented poverty reduction responsibility

　　Adhering to the management system whereby the central government plans the project as a whole, provinces take overall responsibility and counties shoulder responsibility of implementation, the state will attach great importance to communities, villages and households in poverty alleviation and hold the leading officials of Party and government responsible for development-oriented poverty reduction endeavors. Party committees and governments at all levels should enhance awareness, intensify coordination functions of development-oriented leading groups, strengthen leadership and make unified arrangements. They should increase integration of province-county projects and resource arrangements to promote the accomplishment of various tasks. The government will further improve evaluation incentive mechanisms for Party and government officials as well as departments and key counties. Organizational departments at all levels should actively coordinate work in this regard. Provinces (municipalities directly under the central government) in Eastern areas will give intensified support to their poverty-stricken areas and poverty reduction project beneficiaries. The government will also encourage and support eligible areas to explore ways to settle poverty-related problems emerging during urbanization.

42. Strengthening construction of rural grass-roots organizations

　　The government will give full play to the impregnable role played by grass-roots Party organizations in poor areas and integrate development-oriented poverty reduction programing with grass-roots level organizational development. It will appoint strong leaders to villages and actively explore effective channels to develop collective economy and collective capital accumulation and find more ways to enrich rural residents. The state will encourage and select ideologically and morally advanced young officials, ex-servicemen, university graduates who are extremely capable and are willing to serve the people, to build leader teams, guide work groups and foster development in poor villages. Village officials who have done a great job in lifting poor villagers out of poverty will be given preference when applying for the civil service in accordance with relevant regulations and conditions.

43. Enhancing team building of poverty reduction institutions

　　Development-oriented leading groups at all levels should improve guidance for poverty reduction activities, study and design policy measures and coordinate the implementation of all tasks. Leading groups in provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) should report their work to the development-oriented poverty reduction program leading group of the State Council. The state will further strengthen anti-poverty institutions at all levels and their respective functions, enhance team building, improve working conditions and the quality of management. Deeply impoverished townships should have a special official responsible for development-oriented poverty alleviation. The training of county-level officials and above-county-level officials who work in anti-poverty departments should be included in the overall training plan of Party and government officials at all levels. Poverty reduction departments should enhance their ideological and moral standards, fight against corruption and improve efficiency and ability to execute.

44. Improving management of poverty reduction fund

　　Fiscal funds will be mainly earmarked to contiguous areas with special difficulties, key counties and poverty-stricken villages, to foster specialty and competitive industries, improve development capacity of poor people and their basic production and living condition, and to increase direct funding for households. Mechanism of direct funding for households will be innovated and multiple ways will be used to ensure effective support for the needy. Infrastructure construction projects that use poverty reduction funding should make sure that poor people benefit first. Anti-poverty projects by industries should be directed to lift poor households out of poverty. A public announcement system for poverty reduction funding will be promulgated, audit and monitoring functions will be strengthened, and monitoring channels will be widened to crack down embezzlement and corruption.

45. Enhancing anti-poverty research and publicity

　　The state will earnestly improve theory and policy research on anti-poverty issues, summarize anti-poverty practices systematically, and gradually develop increasingly sophisticated theory and policy with Chinese characteristics. It will conduct surveys to improve decision-making and implementation ability, include poverty reduction in basic education for civilians about national conditions, in official training and civil servants education and in school education. The government will continue publicizing poverty alleviation projects and informing people of policies, achievements, experiences and typical examples in this regard so as to create a favorable environment for anti-poverty activities. Meanwhile, it will also showcase to the international community our efforts and accomplishments in guaranteeing people’s right to live and develop.

46. Reinforcing statistics collection and monitoring of poverty reduction work

　　The state will establish a development-oriented poverty reduction program information system and monitor contiguous areas with special difficulties. It will improve its statistics and monitoring system; regularize data collection, collation, feedback and announcement; and make information on the current poverty  situation and trends known in a timely and objective way, so as to provide basis for scientific decision-making.

47. Enhancing building of the legal system

　　The government will accelerate lawmaking processes in order to provide a legal basis for poverty reduction.

48. Provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities that directly under the central government) shall design their respective implementation approaches in accordance with this outline.

49. The Leading Group Office of Poverty Reduction and Development of the State Council is responsible for coordinating and organizing implementation of this outline.