Poverty Alleviation and Development in Fujian Province

　　【Overview】 In 2011, Fujian provincial party committee and government earnestly implemented the spirit of the central poverty relief work conference and the “Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)”, taking poverty alleviation and development as an important measure to promote scientific development and social harmony, held a number of special meetings to make deployments on the anti-poverty work, adjusted the members of the leading group for poverty alleviation and development, set up the leading group for the public welfare project (ex-situ poverty alleviation relocation), issued the “Circular Concerning the Name Change and Member Adjustment of the Provincial Party Committee Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation and Development” (Min Wei [2011] No.40), the “Guidance on Accelerating the Implementation of ‘Public Welfare Projects’ during the 12th Five-Year Plan Period” (Min Wei [2011] No.47) and the “Implementation Plan for the ‘Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)” (Min Wei [2011] No. 64) as well as other policy documents, and increased the efforts on anti-poverty work.

　　【Investment of anti-poverty funds】 The provincial government allocated 413 million Yuan of special anti-poverty funds, up 42.88%. The proportion of provincial fiscal budget for anti-poverty funds in the provincial general fiscal budgets rose from 2.85% of last year to 3.15%. In addition, the municipal government invested 160 million Yuan of financial anti-poverty funds, up 30.2%. Department at all levels also increased investment in poor areas and integrated various funds to effectively improve the production and living conditions of the poor.

　　【Pro-poor policies】 1. Policies to support needy families: The province took poor households as the main targets of poverty alleviation and development. During the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, it took all the rural households with per capita annual net income of less than 3000 Yuan and 1.4 million poor people with the ability to work in 2010 as the objects of household poverty reduction. Through providing support, the province aimed to provide adequate food and clothing for the poor, guarantee their rights to compulsory education, basic medical treatment and housing, and make the growth rate of per capita annual net income of the poor higher than the provincial average. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, we’ll appropriately raise the poverty line and re-identify the objects of poverty reduction. By 2020, we’ll ensure that the family income of the poor will witness a substantial increase, the living conditions of the poor will be greatly improved and the basic public services will be comprehensively guaranteed.

2. Policies to support poverty-stricken villages. In the next decade, the province will continue to implement the entire village advancement projects. The province will identify more than 200 provincial key villages for poverty alleviation and development every year for concentrated support once every three years. The cities, counties (districts) will identify a number of poor villages to receive assistance. Through concentrated support, the per capita net income of the farmers in key villages is expected to be higher than local average level, the villages’ collective economic revenue will increase significantly, the cohesion force of village-level organizations will be obviously enhanced, the villages’ infrastructure will be significantly improved, social undertakings will witness comprehensive development and the villages’ appearance will undergo a fundamental change.

3. Policies to support key counties. The province has identified 23 key counties for provincial poverty alleviation and development, namely: Zhenghe, Songxi, Shouning, Zhouning, Xiapu, Ninghua, Zhaoan, Yongtai, Yunxiao, Pucheng, Pingnan, Pinghe, Wuping, Guangze, Gutian, Zherong, Shunchang, Jianning, Mingxi, Qingliu, Changting, Liancheng and Taining. It has accelerated the pace of infrastructure construction in the counties to solve the bottleneck restricting the development, cultivated a large number of competitive industries with local characteristics to enhance the comprehensive economic strength of the counties; and implemented a number of livelihood projects in the field of education, health, culture, employment and social security to promote e the equalization of basic public services.

　　【Ex-situ anti-poverty relocation】 The province continued to implement the public welfare project of ex-situ poverty alleviation relocation. The provincial government formulated the "Guidance on Accelerating the Implementation of ‘Public Welfare Projects’ during the 12th Five-Year Plan Period” (Min Wei [2011] No.47)" to expand the coverage of relocation targets, increase the number of relocation projects, raise the subsidy standards, combine the public welfare project with the development of small towns, industrial parks and new rural construction, and enhance the follow-up development capacity of the immigrants. The provincial government allocated 280 million Yuan of financial public welfare project funds and the city and county government issued 439 million Yuan of matching funds for the implementation of the public welfare project for 27680 households and 115051 people, over-fulfilling the scheduled task of relocation of 100,000 residents. In 2011, the province set up 700 resettlement spots for the immigrants, of which 238 were large-scale resettlement spots for at least one household, and conducted entire village relocation of 187 natural villages.

　　【Credit poverty alleviation】 The province issued 550 million Yuan of small loans for the poor, generating income of more than 500 million Yuan for needy families, and allocated 12 million Yuan of discount funds to encourage the issuance of 180 million Yuan of small loans for rural households, aiming to support impoverished households to develop planting, breeding, processing projects, agriculture tourism and farmhouse happiness project based on the competitive industries with local characteristics. The province implemented, in cooperation with China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, micro-credit project for rural households and issued 120 million Yuan of loans to support 9850 rural households; promoted the construction of micro-credit guarantee service systems such as the microfinance promotion society, issued rural household loans of more than 200 million Yuan; continued to implement the pilot projects of village-level anti-poverty mutual aid society, set up 92 village-level mutual aid organizations with a total of 8780 members and capital of 27.5 million Yuan, which supported the production of more than 3790 impoverished households.

　　【Industrial poverty alleviation】 The province implement the policies for industrial poverty alleviation, mainly supported a number of poverty alleviation leading enterprises, encouraged enterprises to build bases, develop resources and solve employment problems in poor areas, and issued 160.64 million Yuan of loans for 40 poverty alleviation enterprises to promote the development of production in 283 impoverished villages and 14256 poor households.

　　【Entire village advancement】 Prepared and completed the implementation of the annual plan for entire village advancement and launched the entire village advancement projects in 1614 natural villages – the task for the next three years. Through comprehensive measures of “department linkage, fund integration and cadres for key villages”, it strived to help the masses develop production and increase income, boosted the development of infrastructure, social undertakings and public services to promote the new rural construction in key villages for poverty alleviation and development. The province invested 698 million Yuan of financial anti-poverty funds, of which 465 million Yuan was local matching funds and 103 million Yuan was integrated department funds; arranged 125 provincial organs and central organs in Fujian to provide counterpart support for 220 provincial key villages, integrated 44.53 million Yuan of special funds, sent 220 excellent reserved cadres of the units directly under the provincial government to act as first party secretary of the villages; promoted the implementation of 404 income-generating projects in rural areas, set up 205 rural bases to help people become well off; built rural roads of  1318.03 km and terrace farmland of 36,500 mu, solved the drinking water problem for 233,900 people, renovated 12770 dilapidated houses, promoted the technology, education, cultural and health work, built cultural activity rooms of 101,453.4 square meters, village clinics of 7753 square meters, and rebuilt primary schools of 63,977 square meters.

　　【Fujian – Ningxia pairing-off poverty alleviation】 In accordance with the requirements of the state on the East-West Cooperation for poverty reduction, the province further promoted the Fujian – Ningxia pairing-off poverty alleviation, held 15 Fujian – Ningxia joint meetings to serious implement the agreed matters and increased the aid funds for Ningxia from 21 million Yuan to 30 million Yuan. It actively conducted the convergence between Jinjiang City and Hongsipu District to promote the communications between the two places; coordinated to open up the Xiamen-Yinchuan air route and explored new channels for Ningxia to conduct economic exchanges and cooperation with Fujian and Taiwan. Relying on the "9.8 CIFIT" (China International Fair for Investment and Trade held in Xiamen from September 7 to 11 every year) and the China-Arab States Economic and Trade Forum (the Ningxia Trade Fair and China-Arab States Economic and Trade Forum jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region People's Government), the province increased efforts on inviting investment and the two provinces actually implemented 13 cooperative projects, increased investment of 386.8 million Yuan. Fujian Province actively coordinated for the holding of the Promotion Meeting on Ningxia-Fujian (Fuzhou) Economic and Trade Cooperation. On the meeting, contracts were signed for 17 cooperative projects with a total investment of 9 billion Yuan and contract project value of 4.24 billion Yuan. Meanwhile, Fujian Province continued to deepen sectoral collaboration in helping the poor, improved the education, technology and voluntary mutual aid services, selected more than 90 teachers, technicians and volunteers to support the poverty reduction in Ningxia and organized technical trainings for 2120 people in Ningxia.

　　【Rain Plan】 Fujian intensified the trainings of poor households, vigorously implemented the “Rain Plan” and “Sunshine Project”, and carried out job skills trainings and practical technical trainings for 45,800 poor labors in the province.

　　【Convergence of two systems】 The province continued to carry out pilot work for the convergence of poverty alleviation and development and the rural minimum living security system, developed and implemented pro-poor measures for the registered poor households, and put forward the pro-poor policy of “one plan for one household” based on the causes of poverty, including the pairing-off poverty alleviation responsibility system, policy support for “public welfare projects”, labor trainings, microfinance and industrial development, and the policy support for village-level mutual funds, etc.

　　【Poverty alleviation publicity】 Fujian Province conscientiously summed up the good experience and practices in the poverty alleviation and development, forming typical text materials for information exchanges with. In the whole year, it had 17 reports printed in the central media and two reports printed on LGOP periodicals. Relying on media such as newspaper, radio, TV and the Internet, the province created a three-dimensional propaganda network for publicity of poverty alleviation and development.  According to incomplete statistics, the provincial media reported its anti-poverty work for more than 80 times. To promote the implementation of public welfare projects, the province compiled and published the album titled "Public Welfare Projects of Fujian Province", printed 10,000 copies of public welfare project brochures and participated in the "Exhibition on China's Poverty Reduction Achievements in the New Century". The effectiveness exhibition on Fujian’s public welfare project – relocation for poverty alleviation was praised by LGOP. Meanwhile, the province actively recommended advanced collectives and individuals for national poverty alleviation and development and strengthened the publicity of advanced models to give full play to the demonstration role of models. Based on the investigations and researches of departments at all levels on the public welfare projects, we made propagandas of pro-poor policies in the poor villages so that the poverty alleviation and development work was deeply rooted in the masses.

　　【Monitoring of poverty alleviation statistics】 Fujian submitted the province's "registration form of poverty alleviation statistics monitoring staff" and 2008 and 2009 assessment indicator test data of anti-poverty work in accordance with relevant requirements. According to the spirit of the “Notice on the Implementation of Base Period Survey on 2010 Poverty Alleviation Statistical Data” issued by LGOP, Fujian combined the poverty alleviation statistics monitoring with the work in fixed observation spots and identified 25 counties, 25 villages and 500 households as the targets of the monitoring.

　　【Social poverty alleviation】 Fujian Province strengthened the cooperation with the Women's Federation, the Communist Youth League and other mass organizations to carry out the "Women's Anti-poverty Action", "Spring Bud Program", "Young Volunteers "ant other activities to benefit more than 20 million people, cooperated with China Charity Federation, the provincial charity federation, poverty alleviation foundation and poverty alleviation associations to further promote the implementation of charity poverty alleviation projects such as the "Action 120 for the Safety of Mother and Baby" and "Care Package", and raised more than 8 million Yuan of funds. Meanwhile, it guided the state-owned enterprises, private enterprises and foreign businesses to join in the ​​poverty reduction, gave priority to old revolutionary base areas in poverty reduction and donated for 200 bookstores on “three issues”. 220 provincial key villages for poverty alleviation and development received social anti-poverty funds of 78.32 million Yuan in 2011. Giving full play to its advantages of a number of overseas Chinese, the province actively contacted overseas Chinese to help the poor at home, mobilized the Chinese people in HK, Macao and Taiwan to donate 100 million Yuan in total; promoted army and armed forces to actively participate in the poverty alleviation and development and carry out the activity of “Warmth and Love Delivery” in various forms.

　　【Kuok Foundation Fujian Project】 In June, Pingnan County of Fujian Province officially became the tenth poverty alleviation base of Kerry Group Kuok Foundation in Mainland China. This project will be implemented in key villages for poverty alleviation and development, radiating the whole county. The Foundation plans to invest 5 – 10 million Yuan every year for a long-term follow-up of poverty alleviation work for 15 years, aiming to explore the establishment of sustainable, reproducible new models for rural development.

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(Cx�#e social security to ensure that all elderly people can be supported, all the sick can get medical treatment, assistance will be provided for all the persons with difficulties and people’s basic living can be guaranteed. All the rural households meeting the conditions for receiving subsistence allowance in the poor villages covered by entire village advancement were covered by the minimum living security system. When the poor farmers who participated in the new rural cooperative medical system and the new rural social old-age insurance system could not afford the individual payments of the insurance, we would solve the problem with the anti-poverty funds, achieving full coverage of impoverished regions of the new rural cooperative medical system, the new rural social pension insurance and the rural minimum living security system.

 

　　Make innovations to mechanisms for standardized development. In 2011, according to changes in the situation of poverty alleviation and development, the province revised the “Rural Poverty Alleviation and Development Ordinance of Heilongjiang Province”. Based on changes in the connotations of poverty alleviation and development in the new era, it further improved the planning, fund and project management measures and increased the contents of planning formulation and implementation for contiguous poor areas with special difficulties and the system for withdrawal of key counties for poverty reduction. WE re-enacted the "Procedures for Entire Village Advancement for Poverty Alleviation and Development in Heilongjiang" and the "Methods for Acceptance of Entire Village Advancement for Poverty Alleviation and Development in Heilongjiang", raised the standards for entire village advancement and established the mechanism for poverty reduction of impoverished villages. In addition, we further improved Heilongjiang Rural Poverty Alleviation and Development Information Network and announced the village-level poverty alleviation and development planning, fund investment fields, project implementation and the name list of the poor on the website to receive public supervision for “Operations under Sunshine”, enhancing the transparency of our work.

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(Cx�#ly: "Times New Roman";mso-hansi-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>【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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(Cx�#t-kerning:0pt'>Through the implementation of the “bringing in and going out” policy, the state will renovate mechanisms and expand channels to enhance international anti-poverty communication. It will also learn international anti-poverty theory and practices, conduct cooperation on anti-poverty projects and share experience with other counties in a common effort to promote poverty reduction.

 

　　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.