Special Poverty Alleviation

    (I) Special Poverty Alleviation - Policy measures and institutional innovation

     

    Implementation Plan of High-level Personnel Development for Poverty Alleviation and Development (2011-2020)

    In accordance with the National Talent Strategy and the general requirements of the "National Program for Medium- and Long-term Talent Development (2011-2020)" (hereinafter referred to as "National Talent Program"), under the unified deployment of the "National Poverty Alleviation and Development Talent Development Plan (2011-2020)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Poverty Alleviation and Development Talent Development Plan"), based on the implementation of the "Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Outline") and the current status of high-level poverty alleviation and development talent team, this implementation plan is hereby formulated.

    I. Guiding ideology

    Hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, take Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of Three Represents as the guidance, thoroughly apply the scientific outlook on development, make clear the objectives according to the requirements for poverty alleviation and development in the new era, strengthen relevant measures, increase investment, assign responsibility, effectively strengthen high-level talent team construction for poverty alleviation and development, comprehensively improve the ability to study theories on poverty alleviation and development, the ability to practice and summarize, decision-making ability as well as the implementation and management capabilities under the grand pattern of poverty alleviation, aiming to provide strong personnel support and intellectual guarantee for the full implementation of the "Outline".

    II. Basic principles

    -Reality-based and future-oriented. Facing the reality of a relatively weak foundation of high-level personnel team construction for poverty alleviation and development, focusing on the integration of existing domestic and international high-level human resources in social science and natural science research area, to meet the requirements of the "Outline", we should focus on training reserve force of high-level personnel team for poverty alleviation and development to meet the long-term need of the cause of poverty alleviation and development, make overall planning, take all factors into consideration and make scientific arrangements to strongly promote the high-level personnel team construction for poverty alleviation and development.

    -Not seeking ownership but use right. Based on this sector, facing the whole society, combine training and support and make organization and mobilization complement each other.

    -Use-oriented, highlight the key points. To meet the needs of anti-poverty work under the grand pattern of poverty alleviation, in accordance with the poverty alleviation and development theory with Chinese characteristics, and to satisfy the demand for practical innovation and development, we should establish the concept of great talent, focus on the main task of poverty alleviation and development in the new era, recruit a large number of relevant talents, organize personnel training, make good use of the talents and establish a platform for high-level anti-poverty personnel to participate in poverty alleviation and development and realize their own value.  

    -Improve the system and make mechanism innovation. Grasping the law and characteristics of anti-poverty personnel development, focusing on the training of high-level theory and practice research talents, administrative management decision-making personnel and high-end innovative talents, we should explore the establishment of an incentive mechanism to attract, train and make use of talents, improve relevant systems and gradually establish a sound institutionalized mechanism for high-end talent development, use, management, training and update to promote the development of high-level personnel team for poverty alleviation and development.

     -Social participation to promote development. Attract and tap social elites of research institutes, universities and all sectors of society to jointly participate in the theoretical research, practice summary, high-level personnel training and innovative practices for poverty alleviation and development. While increasing financial input of governments at all levels, we should mobilize various social forces to sponsor and support the theoretical research and high-level personnel training for poverty alleviation and development to actively promote the high-level personnel development for poverty alleviation and development. 

     

    III. Scope and objectives

    The overall objective of high-level personnel team construction for poverty alleviation and development: By 2020, the high-level personnel team for poverty alleviation and development is expected to be gradually expanded with adequate back-up personnel reserve; poverty alleviation and development theory research capacity must be improved significantly, the policy level, decision-making ability and implementation capacity of the party and government leaders for poverty alleviation and development and the cadres of poverty relief departments must be enhanced steadily; and the lack and outflow of high-level personnel in poverty-stricken areas are expected to be addressed significantly. The scope of the implementation plan consists principally of the following three aspects:

    -Poverty alleviation and development theory and practice research personnel. Integrate high-end theory research resources for domestic social sciences and natural sciences, establish a poverty alleviation theory and practice expert database with an appropriate scale to support the theoretical and practice research on poverty alleviation and development with Chinese characteristics, gradually expand the expert team and strive to achieve the goal of an annual increase of 100 in the number of researchers in the areas related to poverty alleviation and development.

    -Party and government cadres (including poverty alleviation cadres) and management personnel. As of the end of the "12th Five-Year Plan" period, organize a round of trainings on the party and government cadres responsible for poverty relief work in the contiguous poor areas and the key counties, arrange more cadres for exchange between eastern and western provinces, promote the standardized and institutionalized construction for cadre exchange in the fixed-point poverty alleviation and the East-West cooperation for poverty reduction, send at least 3700 party and government cadres above county level every year to support the fixed-point poverty alleviation in impoverished areas (by taking a temporary post), arrange at least 300 poverty relief cadres for exchange between the eastern and western areas, and strengthen the training of poverty-relief cadres.

    -High-level reserve personnel for poverty alleviation and development. Strengthen reserve personnel training. Recruit 300 MPA students per year averagely to support the management of poverty alleviation and development, including about 100 in-service students and 200 full-time students. Provide subsidy for 100 doctoral dissertations on poverty alleviation and development per year.

     

    IV. Implementation mode

    IExpand the poverty alleviation theory and practice research personnel team

    1Organizational form. Based on the Expert Advisory Committee of the State Council Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development, we should hire a number of experts, professors and researchers with high theoretical attainment, professional knowledge and research capabilities who are enthusiastic about the cause of poverty alleviation and development from the domestic relevant universities, social sciences and natural sciences research institutions, ministries and research departments, and establish the expert database for poverty alleviation and development. Candidates for the expert database shall be selected according to the principle of two-way selection, needs-based recruitment, database entry by batch and announcement by stages, and the appointment system shall be implemented. The selected experts covered by the database shall be issued a certificate respectively by the LGOP. About 40 experts shall be selected as the first batch, and the number of experts for the database is expected to reach 100 in the end. After that, relevant experts shall be selected according to the needs of work. In principle, the annual increase in the number of employed experts should be no more than 10.

    2Main duties of employed experts. First, carry out in-depth theoretical research and countermeasure study in the field of poverty alleviation and development to support the decision-making of the State Council Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation and Development; Second, conduct poverty alleviation-related research organized by the LGOP to enrich the poverty alleviation and development theories with Chinese characteristics; Third, participate the consulting, seminars, workshops, lectures and research activities organized by the LGOP; Fourth, participate in the trainings on poverty alleviation and development, cadre trainings and the teaching material preparation for human resources development in impoverished areas. Fifth, participate in international exchange in the field of poverty reduction.

    3. Operation mode. Establish the expert recommendation, appointment, use and management systems, regularly organize a forum of experts, timely report to the relevant experts the working plan for poverty alleviation theory and practice research and put forward work requirements. Organizes annual assessment of the theoretical research and the quality of work of the hired experts, and take the assessment results as an important basis for the re-appointment.  Organize timely comprehensive assessment of the hired experts based on the actual situation, and continue the appointment of the experts proved qualified in the assessment. Praise the experts with high quality of research results and good social repercussions who make big contributions, and dismiss those who do not play a positive role.

    Gradually establish and improve the poverty alleviation theory and practice research management system and regularly announce key annual study plans to the public. By means of paper awards events, financial support, field research, forums on poverty alleviation and development and inviting relevant experts to participate in seminars, we should strive to attract more experts and scholars to actively get involved in the poverty alleviation theory and practice research.

    (II) Strengthen the training of party and government leaders and the management personnel for poverty alleviation in poor areas

    1. Strengthen training management. The LGOP, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Ministry of Finance jointly develop the training program and make overall arrangements for trainings of party and government cadres and poverty-relief cadres in impoverished areas nationwide, make reasonable arrangements of the training scale and scientifical arrangements of the training themes.

    2Improve the relevance of training. Do a good job of training needs survey, organize various trainings at all levels and constantly enhance the pertinence of trainings, including: workshops on pro-poor policies participated by high-level management personnel, seminars on pro-poor policies for party and government leaders of county level or above and poverty alleviation department heads, trainings for young and middle-aged poverty alleviation backbones participated by young and middle-aged cadres in the field of poverty alleviation, as well as overseas training courses for international exchange, etc.

    3Strengthen the teaching material system building. Summarizing China's experience in poverty alleviation and development work since the reform and opening up, learning from the rural development and poverty reduction theory and practices at home and abroad, in accordance with the fundamental principle of paying equal attention to basic and theoretical teaching materials and case study teaching materials, we should constantly develop high-quality anti-poverty training materials.

    4Improve the training methods and means. Combining lecturing, research-oriented, case study-based, analog and experiential trainings, strive to improve the training effectiveness and quality. Gradually develop electronic teaching and remote Web-based training, and actively explore and innovate training methods.

    5Enhance the assessment and tracking of training effectiveness. Establish the training assessment system for to meet the needs of anti-poverty work and strengthen teaching evaluation to check teaching effectiveness and evaluate teaching level.

    6Integrate poverty alleviation training resources. Focusing on the training centers in poor areas nationwide, strengthen the poverty alleviation training system building across the country, aiming to form joint forces in the formulation of teaching program, training guidance, teaching material development, door-to-door teaching, teaching resources sharing and teachers training as well. Meanwhile, we should take the initiative to contact and cooperate with all levels of party schools, administrative colleges, universities and research institutes, and make use of their strength in theoretical research and teaching resources to improve the effectiveness and quality of trainings on poverty reduction.

    (III) Hold trainings of high-level personnel for poverty alleviation and development

    1. LGOP took the lead in high-level personnel management and training. Based on the pilot program launched in 2011, making use of the educational resources of China Agricultural University and other institutions of higher education, the LGOP continued to implement the graduate program of MPA majoring in the management of poverty alleviation and development, aiming to develop high-level, complex, application-oriented public management personnel meeting the needs of the anti-poverty work and the new socialist countryside construction in the new era for government departments at all levels, especially poverty alleviation departments in poor areas, and develop a group of management personnel and reserve cadres with theoretical attainment and professional skills in public management, public affairs and public policies concerning poverty alleviation and rural development. Enrollment targets: cadres of poverty alleviation and development departments at all levels and in-service cadres of the leading group member units; university student village officers who have taken up their indentures in impoverished regions, ethnic minority areas in borderland and the poor villages in old revolutionary base areas or non-poor areas, as well as the personnel for "Three Supports and One Assistance". As for the training mode, we implement the tutor responsibility system and the course credit system, and the trainees are divided into two groups: full-time ones and part-time ones. The trainings for full-time participants usually last for two to three years, while the training period of part-time participants shall not be longer than four years. The postgraduates who obtain required credits by passing relevant examinations, complete the required training courses and pass the academic dissertation defense within the study period will be awarded a master's degree in public administration with approval of the degree evaluation committee of the university.

    2. Poverty departments at all levels, especially the provincial (autonomous region and municipality) poverty alleviation departments should cooperate with relevant universities, colleges and research institutions to actively carry out high-level personnel development for poverty alleviation and development. We should incorporate high-level personnel training into the annual work priorities and develop and implement plans; strengthen local poverty alleviation training system, make full use of local resources for education and training, organize high-level personnel trainings for poverty alleviation and development in various forms; make mechanism and institutional innovations based on local actual situations, mobilize all positive factors to create a favorable environment and provide quality services to form a powerful force for high-level personnel training for poverty alleviation and development.

    (IV) Create an open platform for poverty alleviation theory and practice research

    Establish an incentive mechanism. Through carrying out a series of poverty alleviation and development and practice-related research projects, as well as paper soliciting, contest and subsidy activities, we strive to attract more experts, scholars and practitioners to engage in poverty alleviation theory, policy and practice research, yielding a number to research findings themed poverty alleviation and development with a certain theoretical level, and draw the attention of more people from all sectors of society on the cause of poverty alleviation and development, creating a good social atmosphere for the development of high-level personnel in the field of poverty alleviation and development.

    1Carry out poverty alleviation and development theory and practice research work. Timely establish the Poverty Alleviation and Development Theory and Practice Research Fund, and select a number of hot theoretical issues on poverty alleviation and development and key practical activities for research. The subject undertaking the research work may be selected in two ways: Entrusting the hired experts covered by the database or conducting public solicitation. The authorized research unit shall obtain a certain amount of research funding. Regularly organize research results assessment activities, issue the "award certificates" and cash rewards for outstanding research achievements, and recommend them to domestic and foreign authoritative journals for publication.

    2Launch the project on funding doctoral thesis on senior poverty alleviation personnel training. Raise funds from society and make public solicitation for funding targets among the current Ph.D candidates with certain disciplinary backgrounds in economics, management science, sociology, political science and other humanities and social sciences as well as related natural sciences who graduate in the current year (academic year). All doctoral dissertation researches around the following or related topics may apply for assistance: (1) poverty alleviation and development theory with Chinese characteristics; (2) the basic characteristics of the new stage for poverty alleviation and development; (3) poverty reduction and development-related theories, strategies and methods; (4) poverty alleviation and development in contiguous poor areas; (5) international comparison of pro-poor strategies; (6) poverty problem of minorities; (7) special poverty; (8) environment and poverty ; (9) emerging poverty alleviation industry; (10) human resources development in poor areas; (11) social poverty alleviation theory, mechanisms and international comparison; (12) charity environment & poverty alleviation and development; (13) poverty alleviation and development and rural governance; (14) urban poverty; (15) poverty reduction efficiency; (16) Foreign affairs on poverty alleviation and international cooperation in the field of poverty reduction. Applicants shall fill in the "Application Form for the Project on Funding Doctoral Thesis on Senior Poverty Alleviation Personnel Training". The LGOP shall organize an evaluation group to make assessment on the objects of funding and provide a certain amount of funding for the selected doctoral theses that pass the dissertation defense.

    3Call for papers on poverty alleviation and development theory and practice. Selecting one or 2 topics every year, take the web portals of the LGOP, "China’s Poverty Alleviation" and "Poverty Alleviation and Development" as the main carriers, jointly with some other network and print media, call for papers and research reports publicly, award the Certificate for Essay Contest and give a certain amount of rewards in cash or in kind to outstanding papers, and publicly issue the collected papers to enrich the theoretical research.

    (V) Dredge high-level anti-poverty personnel circulation channels

    1Implement the project to introduce high-level personnel urgently needed in impoverished areas. According to the unified deployment of the "National Program for Personnel Development", to cooperate with the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee and other relevant departments, we should seriously implement the talent support programs for outlying poverty-stricken areas, ethnic minority areas in the borderland and old revolutionary base areas to provide intellectual and technical guarantee for accelerating the development of these regions and achieving the equalization of basic public services.

    2Create practice and training opportunities for the growth of high-level anti-poverty personnel. Through periodic training and cadre sending for exchange, we should constantly strengthen the training of party and government leaders and the cadres of poverty relief departments of county level or above in impoverished areas, especially the contiguous poor areas and key counties, strive to provide them with opportunities to practice in various environments, accumulate working experience in practice and enhance their capabilities for coordination, decision-making and implementation. Meanwhile, jointly with the personnel departments to explore the establishment of an incentive mechanism for sending cadres in fixed-point poverty reduction and East-West poverty alleviation cooperation to attract various kinds of talents to make contributions to the development of impoverished areas.

    3Lay a foundation for talent reserving for high-level anti-poverty personnel team construction. Continue to do a good job in the "Three Supports and One Assistance" and the Program of College Volunteers to the West, guide aspiring talented young people to move towards the central and western poor areas and develop a large number of reserve talents for the grassroots anti-poverty work to lay a solid foundation for the sustainable development of high-level anti-poverty personnel team.

    V. Safeguard measures

    (I) Strengthen coordination and guidance. Further strengthened communication with the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Ministry of Finance and the National Development and Reform Commission, developed and implemented relevant policies to jointly promote the healthy development of high-level anti-poverty personnel, strengthened guidance for poverty alleviation departments of various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), gave full play to the advantages of various departments and tapped their working potential to ensure the implementation of relevant work. 

    IIIncrease capital investment. Central and provincial governments arranged a certain proportion of special funds for high-level anti-poverty personnel team construction, and raised funds from all sectors of society for the high-level anti-poverty personnel training and the poverty alleviation and development theory and practice research work. On the basis of constantly increasing capital investment in the senior personnel development for poverty alleviation and development, the government strengthened funds management and standardized the capital operation to ensure the safety of funds.

    IIIVigorously promote the construction of high-level anti-poverty personnel training and practice bases. The LGOP timely cooperated with and promoted relevant universities and research institutions with certain conditions to establish theoretical research bases for poverty reduction, set up the course of poverty alleviation and create the discipline on poverty reduction. We conducted extensive international exchanges and cooperation, learned from international advanced poverty alleviation theories, development experience and organization modes through the implementation of foreign-funded poverty relief projects, technical assistance, research projects, seminars, trainings and exchanges of senior scholars, and selected typical demonstration zones in contiguous poor areas to set up high-level anti-poverty personnel training and practice basis.

    IVEstablish the integrated service system to promote high-level anti-poverty personnel development. Establish a public service website to serve the senior anti-poverty personnel theory and practice research and form a national integrated service system, aiming to provide modern information services for senior anti-poverty personnel to show their wisdom and talents.

    (Department of Administration and Personnel Affairs, LGOP)


    "Implementation Plan on Practical Talent Development and Labor Transfer Training for Poverty Alleviation and Development (2011-2020)"

    In accordance with the requirements of "Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020) " (hereinafter referred to as the "Outline"), the "National Program for Medium- and Long-term Talent Development (2011-2020)" and the "National Poverty Alleviation and Development Talent Development Plan (2011-2020)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Poverty Alleviation and Development Talent Development Plan"), based on the current situation of practical talent and labor transfer trainings in rural poor areas, we hereby develop this implementation plan.

    1. Guiding ideology

    Conscientiously implement the spirit of the "Poverty Alleviation and Development Talent Development Plan", based on the current status of human resources in poor areas and the actual situation of anti-poverty work and the economic and social development of impoverished areas, to meet the talent needs of regional development and poverty alleviation, entire village advancement, employment promotion and industrial poverty alleviation, combining the implementation of the Rain Plan, organize various types of trainings and development work. Through the implementation of the planning, we strive to train a large number of rural practical talents, entrepreneurship talents and skilled workers connected to the labor market to guide and serve the economic development of poor areas, improve the self-development capacity of the poor and enhance the vitality of economic development in poor areas.

    II. Target range

    ILeaders of grassroots organizations and leaders for becoming rich. Mainly referring to the leaders of the "two committees" (party branch committee, village committee) of impoverished villages and the people with strong self-development ability and a strong sense of social responsibility in poor areas who play a positive role in helping the local poor shake off poverty and whose industry development reaches a certain scale.

    IIPractical talents and entrepreneurial talents in poor rural areas. Mainly referring to the labors with certain knowledge and skills in poor villages and the entrepreneurial talents with certain ability to open up who play a demonstrative and leading role in promoting local industry development, including: technical personnel for planting, breeding and relevant product processing; business management personnel serving local industry development, principals of specialized farmers' cooperatives, rural brokers, logistic personnel, etc.

    IIITransfer of employment of labors in poor areas. Mainly referring to trained migrant workers from poor families. The main targets receiving medium- and long-term trainings are young and middle-aged poor labors from needy families who have the desire to transfer employment but still stay in the countryside due to the lack of employment skills, or have the desire to enhance professional skills after employment transfer.

    IVNew workers from needy families. Mainly referring to the current and previous graduates under 25 years of age from needy families who have received nine years of compulsory education but not continue high school study or have completed high school study but not enrolled to universities.  

    III. Objectives and tasks

    By 2020, to cultivate and foster high-quality grassroots leaders, entrepreneurial talents and practical talent teams with an appropriate scale, optimized structure and rational layout for poverty-stricken areas; to significantly improve the overall quality and self-development capacity of labors from needy families; and significantly enhance the employment competitiveness and entrepreneurship development capacity of the labors in rural impoverished areas. The specific tasks are as follows:

    —Training of leaders of grassroots organizations and leaders for becoming rich. At least 300 leaders of grassroots organizations and leaders for becoming rich shall be trained per year for impoverished areas, and averagely at least 1,000 people shall be covered by the trainings of each province (autonomous region and municipality) every year.

    —Practical talents training. To significantly increase the proportion of various types of practical talents for rural areas of the key counties, and train about 100,000 practical talents every year for poverty-stricken villages.

    —Labor transfer training in poor areas. Through skills training, more than 600,000 persons in the central and western poor areas are expected to be transferred every year, and the employment stability shall continue to improve.

    —Training of new labors from poor families. Through various types of vocational schools, to train 200 new labors of poor families averagely every year for each key county for national poverty alleviation and development and each contiguous poor area.

     

    IV. Training methods

    Under the system characterized by "overall deployment by central government, overall responsibility assumed by provincial government and implementation by counties", to meet the needs of different regions, different objects and different trainings, we should adopt different organization and training ways to carry out trainings based on local conditions.

    ILeaders of grassroots organizations and leaders for becoming rich

    Mainly develop talents with the ability to guide local villagers to implement pro-poor policies, develop local specialized industry and collective economy, and help them increase income and become rich through central government demonstration, provincial government organization, municipal and county governments' cooperation, social participation and centralized training, etc.

    1. In cooperation with the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee and other related departments, LGOP will select several demonstration training bases (points) nationwide and organize excellent tutors to carry out inter-regional demonstration trainings based on summarizing the training experience of various regions. About ten trainings will be organized every year for at least 300 person-times.

    2. Provincial poverty alleviation department shall develop annual training plans (including the personnel development plan for national training and the training plan for local organizations) in accordance with actual situation and needs of local area, arrange training funds and organize the implementation.

    3. City and county-level poverty alleviation departments should select and send relevant persons to take part in the centralized trainings according to the provincial training program.

    4. Attract and make use of social educational resources to participate in trainings. Through joint school running and entrusted training, relevant poverty alleviation departments shall select specific training agencies from all levels of Party schools, administrative colleges, vocational schools and other relevant organizations to implement the training program, giving priority to representative industry demonstration zones, and develop individualized plans to ensure the effectiveness of training by means of theory explanations, interactive seminars, field research and live demonstrations.

    IIPractical talents and entrepreneurial talents                                                                

           Focusing on improving the technological quality, professional skills and management capacity of the trainees, we should develop their ability to guide the development of local specialized industry and lead the local poor to develop production, participate in market competition, increase income and become rich, and enhance their ability to engage in the secondary and tertiary industry as well.

    Specific methods: The provincial poverty alleviation departments develop the annual training plan based on the actual situation of the entire village advancement, centralized contiguous development and industrial development, combined with the development needs of local specialized industries. In accordance with various industry development needs or entrepreneurial development directions, divide the trainings into several types, including farming skills training, township enterprise management training, specialized cooperative organization training and rural brokers training. Through jointly school running with colleges, universities and research institutes, centralized training in industry demonstration zones, organize various types of professional trainings, determine different training contents and arrange the training funds. Through theory explanations, interactive seminars, field research and live demonstrations, enable trainees to master scientific knowledge and update ideas, thus develop their entrepreneurial skills.

    City and county-level poverty alleviation departments should select people from poor villages to attend the centralized training.

    IIIEmployment transfer of labors from poor families

    Support and organize labors from poor families to participate in job skills training to obtain intermediate qualification certificates or above, and organize job skills trainings for the employed poor to enhance their qualification level. Main methods: selecting training bases and organizing order-oriented trainings and directional output of employment.

    Relevant poverty alleviation departments publicly select education and training agencies with professional qualification, a strong sense of social responsibility and good reputation as the employment transfer training bases, and announce the list of training bases and their enrollment scale, professionals, study periods, subsidy standards and employment destination every year according to the actual needs. Under the guidance of the poverty alleviation departments, the training bases hold order-oriented trainings and arrange jobs for trainees. Labors from needy families should accept the training agencies and professionals within the announced scope. The subsidy standards are reasonably determined by provincial poverty alleviation departments and financial departments according to the degrees of difficulty of different jobs, training time and consumer price levels, and adjusted according to changes in the actual situation. Subsidy approach is determined based on the actual situation of local area. In the regions with certain conditions, subsidies are directly delivered to poor households. In other areas, however, subsidies may be delivered through reimbursement of training agencies. Poverty alleviation departments are responsible for the supervision and guidance of the trainings and employment work in training bases.

    IVNew labor force of poor families

    Through propaganda, capital subsidy and centralized training, the government should guide, encourage and organize new labors from needy families who are about to integrate into society to continue their higher or secondary vocational education or receive preparatory skills trainings for at least one year, aiming at enhancing the employment competitiveness and sustainable development capacity of the rural poor. The following two methods are mainly implemented:

    1. Issue subsidies to guide trainings. For registered students from needy families receiving higher (Grade I, II and III) and secondary vocational (Grade I and II) education and preparatory skills training for at least one year (excluding the students in the internship stage), in addition to other subsidy policies, the central government issues a certain amount of subsidy to guide the junior middle school graduates not admitted to high school and high school graduates not admitted to the university from poor families to choose schools and majors by themselves and return to schools for professional education or training. Encourage local government to enhance subsidy standards based on the state-funded grants according to the actual poverty situation of the local poor and the actual consumption level of secondary and higher vocational schools, and the additional subsidy is issued by local financial department. Subsidies are mainly issued directly to poor households, not in cash.

    2. Organize centralized trainings. Provincial poverty alleviation departments select vocational education institutions with good conditions and professionals with good job prospects and, by entrusted or joint training, under the premise of voluntary registration, organize the previous and current junior and senior middle school graduates from poor families to receive centralized secondary or higher vocational education or take part in preparatory trainings for at least one year. The government arranges jobs for them and provides follow-up services. The subsidy standards and methods are determined reasonably according to the degrees of difficulty of various jobs, training time and consumer price levels.

     

    V. Safeguard measures

    (I) Strengthen organizational leadership. Governments at all levels should strengthen leadership and management, include personnel development for impoverished villages into the overall planning for poverty alleviation and development and the target responsibility assessment system, and clarify the responsibilities of various departments to ensure that the objectives and management measures are implemented. Poverty alleviation departments at all levels should prepare annual plans based on local actual situation and actively coordinate human resources and social security, education, technology and agricultural departments to cooperate with each other to jointly promote the practical talent and labor force trainings in rural poor areas.

    (II) Increase capital investment. The central government will gradually increase capital investment. Various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) should also gradually increase investment according to the situation of local financial growth. Local governments should allocate a certain proportion of funds to support trainings according to local work needs and relevant regulations, actively attract social capital to support anti-poverty personnel development, broaden the financing channels and gradually increase investment in training.

    (III) Strengthen advocacy. We should step up publicity and guidance. Through various media and in various ways, we should make comprehensive propaganda on relevant policies concerning rural practical talent training and labor transfer training in poor areas, popularize local experience in human resources development and the basic knowledge for labor transfer, development of modern agriculture and getting rich by entrepreneurship, publicize and study successful cases of shaking off poverty of impoverished villages and entrepreneurship in poor areas, mobilize and guide the cadres, masses and all circles of society in poor areas to pay attention to, support and participate in the rural practical talent training and labor transfer training in impoverished areas so as to create a favorable social environment for the realization of the goals.

    (IV) Strengthen regulatory supervision. Provincial (autonomous region and municipal) poverty alleviation offices should establish the supervision and inspection system and organize regular inspections on the rural practical talent training and labor transfer training work in poverty-stricken areas, establish the statistical monitoring system for real-time monitoring and evaluation of effectiveness of the anti-poverty work, do a good job in monitoring the management of training funds, list the important contents of anti-poverty funds auditing, include it into the institutional management, and accept the special audit by relevant audit department. We should conscientiously implement the announcement system and regularly announce the use of training funds to the public to accept mass supervision.

    (V) Actively explore new ways of training. We should strengthen the study of human resource development in poor areas, summarize and explore its objective laws, and gradually improve related policies and measures. We should continue to strengthen the study of labor market demand for talents, seize the new opportunities for employment and development brought by emerging industries, and choose industry development and human resources development projects that are not only consistent with the general direction of China's industrial development but also suitable for popularization in poor areas for key recommendation and support. Meanwhile, we should timely summarize, exchange and popularize new work experience of various regions to promote the work through demonstration, actively carry out various kinds of beneficial pilot work, earnestly study new ways for development of labor resources of poor families in minority areas, border regions and special impoverished areas, and actively explore new ways for trans-regional cooperation in vocational education and skills training to promote the education and training resources and job resources sharing between the east and west areas.

    (Department of Administration and Personnel Affairs, LGOP)

     

    Volunteer Action Plan for Poverty Alleviation (2011- 2020)

    To implement the "Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)" and the "National Poverty Alleviation and Development Talent Development Plan (2011-2020)" and intensively mobilize various kinds of volunteers to participate in poverty alleviation and development, this plan is formulated.

    I. Background and significance

    It is one of the important forms of social poverty alleviation to organize volunteer actions for poverty reduction. Under the guidance of party and government departments at all levels, participated and supported by all circles of society, poverty alleviation volunteers have now increasing influence, the volunteer team is constantly expanding and has played a positive role in poverty alleviation and development, becoming an important force in mobilizing social forces to participate in the cause of poverty alleviation and development.

    The current volunteer action for poverty alleviation in China is still in its infancy with many problems, such as insufficient mobilization, relatively loose organizational structure, lack of innovation in activities and lack of incentive mechanism. The "Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)" proposed to actively advocate volunteer actions for poverty alleviation, build a network of anti-poverty volunteer services and organize relevant persons and volunteers of education, technology, culture and health departments to serve impoverished areas. The "National Poverty Alleviation and Development Talent Development Plan (2011-2020)” also clarifies that we should meticulously design the anti-poverty volunteer action program, expand the anti-poverty volunteer team and establish the relevant human resources network platform. Therefore, it will have a wider social impact and form a new social trend to carry out anti-poverty volunteer action and mobilize more and more young people and the masses to join the volunteer team.

    Practice has proved that the volunteer action for poverty alleviation is in line with the trend of the times and the characteristics of contemporary youth, meets the needs of anti-poverty work and rural poverty-stricken people, and has tremendous potential for development, showing a strong vitality and broad prospects for development. It is an important part of building a large pattern of poverty alleviation and an important measure to promote the cause poverty alleviation and development in the new era to carry out anti-poverty volunteer actions.

    II. Nature and characteristics

    Anti-poverty volunteers refer to the people voluntary to provide services and assistance for impoverished regions and people with a strong sense of social responsibility, not for the purpose of material compensation. Volunteer actions for poverty reduction are unpaid, voluntary organized commonweal actions.

    Under the unified guidance of LGOP, the Volunteer Action Plan for Poverty Alleviation coordinates the establishment of the anti-poverty volunteer organization platform and network system, and mobilizes and organizes all kinds of volunteers to carry out various kinds of service activities to promote the economic and social development in poor rural areas, improve the quality of life and enhance the sustainable development capacity of the poor, thus form social welfare innovation projects.

    III. Main contents

    The Volunteer Action Plan for Poverty Alleviation mainly includes the following contents:

    IBasic mode and objective. Anti-poverty volunteers mainly provide knowledge, abilities, opportunities, capital and other personalized services for impoverished areas through organized technology promotion, emergency assistance, on-site guidance, demonstration and remote support, taking the appropriate forms of cooperation.

    IIOrganize volunteer team. Set up under the principle of open recruitment, voluntary enrollment and selection according to relevant standards, the anti-poverty volunteer team mainly consists of experienced, skilled volunteers with knowledge advantage, including young volunteers, middle-aged volunteers (both from society or enterprises), healthy aged people and various types of experts as well. The above volunteers all have a deep understanding of the volunteer activities and have mental preparation and adaptability for their hard work.

     IIIEstablish volunteer stations. Volunteer station is an important organizational unit of the "Action Plan". To promote the establishment of volunteer stations by stage and gradually expand the area based on classified research, pilot program and experience summarizing, striving to basically cover 22 central and western provinces and autonomous regions during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period. The "Volunteer Station" is not only the base for anti-poverty volunteers to carry out relevant activities, but also the main source of information for grassroots poverty alleviation services and a window to make propaganda for advanced concepts in impoverished areas and among the poor.

    IVMobilize volunteers to carry out activities in poor areas. Earnestly make propaganda and provide guidance for the work, and strive to mobilize at least 10,000 people every year to participate in the poverty alleviation and development and provide the relevant services in poor areas in accordance with the "National Poverty Alleviation and Development Talent Development Plan (2011-2020)".

    IV. Implementation mode

    IInvestigation and research. Based on summarizing the poverty reduction experience of existing volunteer organizations and individuals, select several counties, towns and villages in impoverished areas for classified research and pilot program implementation, make clear the situation and demands, find out the starting point and further enrich and improve the implementation plan of the "Volunteer Action Plan" from the perspective of feasibility and operability.

    IITraining and dispatch. Carry out targeted trainings according to the types of volunteers, including: 1. General trainings: volunteerism, volunteer groups, civil society and non -governmental organizations; 2. Project trainings: project description, the concept of anti-poverty volunteers, volunteer management system, project management, etc.; 3. Professional trainings: basic knowledge for rural poverty reduction, rural development methods, disaster prevention and relief skills, emergency preparedness and risk management, basic knowledge for government work, etc.; 4. Job trainings: job content and responsibilities, basic situation of the destinations, the history and overall situation of the anti-poverty work, NGOs and ethnic customs in the destinations, etc.

    After receiving trainings, volunteers will be dispatched in a planned way through different channels. First, dispatch volunteers relying on poverty alleviation agencies and relevant social organizations. Make comprehensive assessment of local needs for anti-poverty human resources, and determine the positions requiring expertise that are suitable for the volunteers. Second, dispatch volunteers relying on poverty reduction projects and activities.

    IIIFollow-up services. Follow-up monitoring and service systems should be set up for volunteer projects. Poverty alleviation departments mainly provide experience and practice support for the volunteers to understand local situation, coordinate relevant resources and make specific arrangements.

    V. Policy measures

    IIncrease investment. Capital needed by the Volunteer Action Plan for Poverty Alleviation is mainly from the public and individuals. All levels of governments may allocate a certain amount of capital as subsidies according to actual situation, mainly used as accident insurance and living allowances for volunteers.

    IIRecruitment priority. Actively coordinate the Organization Department of CPC Central Committee, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Education to explore the development of the following policies on recruitment priority: In the enrollment of students in government departments, institutions and universities, give priority to those with certain conditions and experience of volunteer service, and give priority to those with two years of voluntary service experience and qualified results in the assessment in recruiting civil servants, graduates and job title promotion.

    IIIAwards and incentives. Make assessments of volunteers and volunteer organizations in terms of competence, communication ability, observation ability, relevant skills and innovation ability; give spiritual and material rewards to those with outstanding performance in the comprehensive assessment; and develop relevant preferential policies for the enterprises and professionals to provide services for impoverished areas.

    VI. Organization and coordination

    IStrengthen leadership and make a clear division of labor. In accordance with the progress made in the implementation of the action plan and the actual needs as well, we should timely explore the establishment of a professional anti-poverty volunteer organization under professional management as the plan implementation body to be responsible for the plan promotion and implementation.

    IIEstablish relevant systems to regulate operation. Establish standardized systems for volunteer management, action projects and evaluation of feedbacks to ensure the healthy and sustainable development of relevant activities.

    IIIConduct overall coordination to form join forces. The Volunteer Action Plan for Poverty alleviation should be combined with the College Student Village Cadre Selection Program of relevant central departments, the "Three Supports and One Assistance" plan, the Plan of College Students Volunteer Service for Western China and the Youth Volunteer Plan for interactions to for join forces and establish a good image.

    IVStrengthen publicity to enhance the image. Strengthen propaganda for anti-poverty volunteer activities to enhance the image of volunteers and attract more people to join the volunteer team for poverty reduction.

    VSum up experience to constantly improve. In the implementation process of the Volunteer Action Plan, we should summarize experience and constantly improve the relevant mechanisms and systems in a timely manner to ensure new achievements are continuously made in the implementation of the Action Plan.

    (Department of Administration and Personnel Affairs, LGOP)

     

    Assessment of poverty alleviation and development work  On January 6, 2012, the "Methods for the Assessment of Poverty Alleviation and Development Work (Trial)" was printed in Document No. 1 of LGOP (hereinafter referred to as the "Assessment Methods"). According to the "Assessment Methods", we set up the Central Leading Group for the Assessment of Poverty Alleviation and Development Work (hereinafter referred to as the Leading Group for Assessment) composed of relevant persons from the Central Organization Department, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Health, the People's Bank of China, the National Bureau of Statistics and Poverty Alleviation Offices. In March 2012, the Leading Group for Assessment, for the first time, carried out an assessment of the anti-poverty work of various provinces in 2011. In mid-October, the member units of the leading group for anti-poverty work assessment including the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee were divided into five groups to conduct field verification on the assessment work in 10 provinces and autonomous regions, including Inner Mongolia, etc. In December, in name of the State Council Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation and Development, we publicly praised six provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) winning Grade A in the assessment, namely Chongqing, Inner Mongolia, Guizhou, Hubei, Sichuan and Zhejiang, and 12 six provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) winning Grade B, namely Shanxi, Jilin, Guangxi, Shaanxi, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Jiangxi, Hainan, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Guangdong and Liaoning, and interviewed with relevant principals of the provinces with Grade C or below and put forward requirements for their future work.

    According to the assessment results, various provinces attached great importance to poverty alleviation and development work, earnestly implemented their responsibility, actively mobilized local resources to participate in the anti-poverty work and increased local investment to promote the work. In 2011, there was a significant decline in the number of rural poverty reduction targets, the average growth rate of per capita net income of farmers in contiguous poor areas and the key counties was higher than the provincial average, and impoverished regions witnessed rapid economic and social development. The situation of infrastructure construction and equalization of public services, however, still cannot meet the needs of impoverished areas and more investment and support should be provided.

                      (Department of Planning and Finance, LGOP)

     

    (II) Special Poverty Alleviation - Key work

    Relocation Program for Poverty Alleviation

    In 2012, a total of 300,000 households and 1.21 million people were relocated and 5.01 billion yuan of financial anti-poverty funds was invested for the program.

    1. Completed the preparation of the "'12th Five-Year Plan' for Relocation-based Poverty Alleviation" in cooperation with the National Development and Reform Commission. In 2012, the LGOP competed the preparation of the "'12th Five-Year Plan' for Relocation-based Poverty Alleviation" in cooperation with the National Development and Reform Commission. In the preparation process of the Plan, we solicited opinions of the relevant provincial (autonomous region and municipal) poverty alleviation offices (bureaus) and enriched the contents of the plan, laying a good foundation for the smooth introduction and implementation of the plan.

    2. Held the "Symposium on National Relocation-based Poverty Alleviation Work and Policy". To steadily push forward the relocation-based poverty alleviation work, From December 27 to December 28, 2012, the LGOP held the "Symposium on National Relocation-based Poverty Alleviation Work and Policy" in Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province. More than 50 people attended the event, including the relevant deputy directors and business directors of the poverty alleviation offices of 19 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), relevant experts from the Industry Department of the National Development and Reform Commission and the Agricultural Department of Development Research Center of the State Council, as well as relevant leaders of the Development and Guidance Department and Department of Policy and Regulation of LGOP of LGOP. The conference was divided into three parts, namely the field research, presentations and expert interpretation. Representatives from Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Ningxia, Shaanxi and Gansu delivered speeches at the meeting, and Comrade Haibo, Director of the Development and Guidance Department delivered a concluding speech.

    Development and Guidance Department, LGOP

    Entire Village Advancement

    1Overview. From 2011 to 2012, China launched the entire village advancement project in 15,057 poor villages nationwide and the entire town advancement project in 80 poor towns in Tibet. As of the end of 2012, we had completed the entire village advancement of 7874 impoverished villages nationwide and the entire town advancement of 80 poverty-stricken towns in Tibet. A total of 3.34 million yuan was invested in the entire village advancement program, of which 1.13 million yuan was from the government. Four major projects were implemented, namely the cultivation of specialized competitive industries, infrastructure construction, ecological construction and environmental protection, public services and the development of social undertakings.

    2Preparation of the "'12th Five-Year Plan' for Poverty Alleviation and Development by Entire Village Advancement"

    To achieve the objectives of the "12th Five-Year Plan" for rural poverty alleviation and development and strengthen guidance for entire village advancement, according to the general requirements of the "Outline of 12th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development" and the "Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Outline"), in conjunction with National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-rural Development, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Health, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and the State Forestry Administration, after two years of efforts, we completed the preparation of the "Planning for Poverty Alleviation and Development by Entire Village Advancement (2011-2015)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Planning").

    1Planning preparation process

    The preparation process of the planning is divided into four stages:

    First, the preparation stage. In October 2010, the Planning Preparation Coordination Group was set up with LGOP Deputy Director Wang Guoliang as the head, relevant leaders of Department of Regional Economy of National Development and Reform Commission as the deputy heads and the relevant comrades from nine departments, including the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Land and Resources as the members. We organized relevant persons to carry out field research in relevant provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and sum up the entire village advancement work in the past decade; held a meeting on the preparation of the planning and solicited the opinions of relevant comrades and experts of various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities). In December 2010, we issued the planning preparation program and the planning outline and held two trainings on the preparation of the planning respectively in December 2010 and June 2011 to guide the bottom-up preparation of local planning of 22 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in the central and western areas.

    Second, the drafting stage. In August 2011, the LGOP issued the "Circular on the Preparation of the 'Planning for Poverty Alleviation and Development by Entire Village Advancement (2011-2015)'", which made arrangements for the planning preparation according to the spirit of the "Outline" and required relevant provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) to develop provincial planning in accordance with the requirements and, on this basis, the LGOP developed the national planning. As of the end of December 2011, 22 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) had completed the local provincial planning preparation and submitted to the LGOP. In January 2012, the LGOP organized relevant persons to collect relevant data and prepare the planning, and the draft plan was formulated at the end of February.

    Third, the comment period. We successively sought the views of the Planning Preparation Coordination Group member units, the governments of 22 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), relevant central and state organs and the PLA General Political Department. On April 6 and 18, 2012, we sought the views of the member units of the Planning Preparation Coordination Group respectively by meeting and in written form, and improved the planning based on the opinions of relevant units. On May 12, we again sought the views of the governments of 22 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), 22 state organs and the PLA General Political Department in written form and finally completed the manuscript of the "Planning" after further revisal and improvement.

    Fourth, the stage of expert argumentation. In accordance with the relevant provisions of the "Interim Measures for the Administration of National Special Planning" issued by the National Development and Reform Commission, on June 8, 2012, LGOP held the expert argumentation meeting on the "Planning". The relevant experts believed that the preparation of the "Planning" is in line with relevant procedures and have a sufficient basis and a clear train of thought, and the "Planning" has clear objectives and tasks and are highly targeted, operable and verifiable, so they unanimously agreed that the "Planning" passed the evaluation. The planning was then revised and improved according to the opinions of relevant experts on the meeting and on June 13, LGOP convened the executive meeting and approved the manuscript of the "Planning".

    Fifth, the stage for the planning to be approved. On July 11, 2012, LGOP submitted the planning signed jointly by 12 departments to the State Council for approval, including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Health, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and the State Forestry Administration. On August 15, the State Council approved the planning.

    Sixth, the stage of Planning issuance and publication. On September 11, 2012, the "'12th Five-Year Plan' for Poverty Alleviation and Development by Entire Village Advancement" (Guo Kai Ban No. [2012] 67) was issued to the governments of relevant provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities as well as relevant departments of the State Council in the name of 12 departments involved in the planning preparation, including the LGOP, etc., and announced to the public. Meanwhile, the official website of LGOP printed the full text of the "Planning" and required relevant provinces and autonomous regions to announce the name list of the poor villages covered by the planning at the website of the provincial government or the website of the provincial poverty alleviation office. As of the end of 2012, the provinces had announced the name list of the poor villages covered by the planning to the public to accept social supervision.

          2Framework and main content of the "Planning"

    In addition to the preface, the "Planning" is divided into five chapters and 15 sessions.

    Chapter I: "The basic situation." It mainly introduces the achievements made in the entire village advancement over the past decade and analyzes the difficulties and favorable conditions for the entire village advancement during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period.

    Chapter II: Guiding ideology. It clarifies the guiding ideology and basic principles for the entire village advancement work during the "12th Five-Year Plan" period.

    Guiding ideologyTaking Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of "Three Represents" as guidance, thoroughly implement the scientific concept of development, adhere to development-oriented poverty alleviation according to the general requirements of the “Outline”, take poverty shaking of entire villages and sustained income growth of poor households as the purpose, take contiguous poor areas as the main battlefield, focus on the development of specialized backbone industries, the improvement of production and living conditions, the increase of collective economic income and the enhancement of self-development capacity, continue to combine entire village advancement with the poverty alleviation in contiguous poor areas, the new rural construction, rural land remediation, ecological construction and environmental protection, and promote the sound and rapid economic and social development of impoverished areas through unified planning, resources integration, concentrated investment and integrated governance.

    Basic principles: Government leadership and mass participation; taking all factors into consideration in overall planning for sustainable development; integration of resources and working together to promote; adjusting measures to local conditions and providing classified guidance; highlighting key points and tackling the difficult part first.

    Chapter III: General situation of the planning area. It mainly introduces the location and poverty situation of 30,000 poor villages in 21 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) in the central and western areas and 200 poverty-stricken towns in Tibet as well.

    Chapter IV: Objectives and tasks. It clarifies the development objectives, construction tasks and standards.

    Overall objective: With the purpose to promote the coordinated and sustainable development of regional economy and accelerate the overall economic, social and ecological development in poor villages (towns), we must ensure that the basic production and living conditions in the poor villages (towns) covered by the entire village advancement program, including the water, electricity, road, gas, housing and community environment shall be significantly improved, the growth rate of per capita net income of farmers shall be above local average, the self-development capacity of poverty-stricken regions and people shall be significantly enhanced, and the widening development gap shall be reversed.  

    Specific objectives: Mainly reflected by the "cultivation of specialized competitive industries", "infrastructure construction", "ecological construction and environmental protection" as well as "social construction" reflected in four aspects.

    Construction tasks: The "Planning" opened four columns to make clear four categories of 17 specific construction tasks, and clarified the principles for the construction standards and budget for entire village advancement.

    Construction standards: Implement the industry standard if there is one; otherwise, determine the construction standard by means of "typical design" based on the actual construction situation of local areas.

    Budget: Budget for the projects under industry construction standard shall be in line with the national construction quota and appropriate adjustments shall be made on the raw materials and labor costs based on local construction situation. Budget for the project of "typical design" shall be estimated according to the actual needs of local areas for the project construction.

    Chapter V: "Safeguard measures". The "Planning" put forward five measures. First, strengthen organizational leadership; second, increase investment; third, make innovations to the working mechanisms; fourth, strengthen the management and supervision; fifth, make assessment and evaluation.

    3Organize and complete the research of the "distribution map of the poor villages in various provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) nationwide covered by the '12th Five-Year Plan' for Poverty Alleviation and Development by Entire Village Advancement". To support the preparation of "'12th Five-Year Plan' for Poverty Alleviation and Development by Entire Village Advancement", in early 2012, LGOP entrusted the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning of CAAS to carry out the research of the "distribution map of poor villages in various provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) nationwide". The project marks the number of poor villages in each county on the map with province as the unit, involving 30,000 impoverished villages of 22 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) nationwide and 200 towns in Tibet (entire township advancement project is implemented in Tibet) covered by the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" for entire village advancement. As the attached maps, the research results are printed and issued together with the "Planning" to the relevant provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities).

    (Development and Guidance Department, LGOP)

    Industrial Poverty Alleviation

    1Formulated and issued the "Guiding Opinions on the Preparation of Industrial Poverty Alleviation Planning for Contiguous Poor Areas with Special Difficulties"

    To effectively promote the industrial poverty alleviation and accelerate the implementation of the regional development and poverty alleviation planning for contiguous poor areas with special difficulties, on December 12, 2012, LGOP, the Ministry of Agriculture, State Forestry Administration and China National Tourism Administration jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on the Preparation of Industrial Poverty Alleviation Planning for Contiguous Poor Areas with Special Difficulties" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), which is divided into seven parts, mainly including:

    1Purpose and significance

    Contiguous poor areas with special difficulties are a key problem in building a moderately prosperous society. The preparation of a planning for industrial poverty alleviation in contiguous poor areas is conducive to the implementation of the plan for regional development and poverty reduction in contiguous poor areas; and helps handle the relationship between industrial development and the benefits of poverty reduction objects and lift the objects of poverty reduction out of poverty; helps guide the investment of financial anti-poverty funds with industrial poverty alleviation as a platform; helps coordinate special poverty alleviation, industrial poverty alleviation and social anti-poverty forces to jointly promote the industrial poverty alleviation work; and helps explore the development of differentiated supportive policies for the objects of poverty reduction as well.

    After the implementation of the industrial poverty alleviation program, the poor got involved in industrial development and achieved income growth through the "one project for one family". As a result, their operating income and asset income were significantly increased with income growth rate above local average, laying a solid foundation for the substantial reduction in the number and the income doubling of the objects of poverty reduction.

    2Basis, coverage and duration

    Basis: In accordance with the general requirements of the “Outline”, the regional development and poverty reduction planning for contiguous poor areas and the provincial implementation plan must be converged with the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" of industrial sector and the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" for local economic and social development.

    Coverage: The coverage of the industrial poverty alleviation program for contiguous poor areas is the same as that of the overall planning. The preparation of industrial poverty alleviation planning for the key counties outside contiguous poor areas can refer to the "Guiding Opinions", which is under the responsibility of the provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities).

    Duration. The duration of the industrial poverty alleviation planning for contiguous poor areas is the same as that of the regional development and poverty reduction program.

    3Basic principles

    Government-led, market operation;

    Adjusting measures to local conditions, classified guidance;

    Highlighting key points, improving mechanisms;

    Guidance of science and technology, capacity building;

    Ecological construction and sustainable development;

    Risk prevention for steady progress

    4Industry selection and regional distribution

    Focusing on planting, breeding, processing, traditional industries with ethnic characteristics and rural tourism which are highly related to poverty reduction and widely participated by the poor, making them effectively converged with the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" developed by the agricultural, forestry and tourism industry, we should select the species of planting, breeding and processing or the categories or rural tourism in accordance with the distribution and resources situation of poor villages.

    To maximize the number of poor villages covered by the program, implement the industrial poverty alleviation projects mainly in the areas concentrated with impoverished villages and people, develop planning for contiguous poor areas with villages as the basis and make progress step by step to gradually cultivate specialized competitive industries with regional characteristics for poverty reduction.

    5Construction content

    Focusing on the industrial development widely participated by the objects of poverty reduction, adjust measures to local conditions and design the construction content of the planning.

    Industry base construction;

    Facilities construction;

    Development of economic cooperation organizations;

    Capacity building of poverty reduction objects;

    Technology support system building.

    6Funding sources and the measurement of investment scale

    Financial funds: Including financial anti-poverty funds, sector funds and matching funds of local governments. The central, provincial and county financial anti-poverty funds should meet the requirements of "two 70%" in principle: More than 70% of the financial anti-poverty funds for each county in the contiguous poor areas should be put in industrial development, of which about 70% should be used to directly support the objects of poverty reduction to participate in industrial development.

    Credit funds: Including discount loans for poverty alleviation and commercial bank loans, mainly used to support poverty alleviation leading enterprises, base construction, the construction of cooperative economic organizations, etc.

    Self-raised funds and labor contribution of the masses: Includes bank loans and other funding sources of the masses, mainly for base construction-related small facilities.

    Others: Various inputs for social poverty alleviation

    Financial funds increases by 15% per year, credit funds should be five times the sources of financial funds, while the self-raised funds by the masses and social poverty relief funds should be determined based on actual situation.

     7Job requirements and organizational leadership (omitted)

    2Convened the seminar on the development of seed potato industry in contiguous poor areas with special difficulties. From August 16 to 17, 2012, the "Seminar on the Development of Seed Potato Industry in Contiguous Poor Areas with Special Difficulties" sponsored by LGOP, co-sponsored by Gansu Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office, Gansu Provincial Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Dingxi Municipal Party Committee and Dingxi City People's Government, and jointly organized by China Poverty Alleviation and Development Center, Weiyuan County Committee and Weiyuan Government was successfully convened in Weiyuan County of Gansu Province. More than 250 people attended the event, including relevant persons from LGOP and China Poverty Alleviation and Development Center, relevant foreign experts from the International Potato Center, relevant deputy directors and business directors of the poverty alleviation offices (bureaus) of 11 potato-producing provinces and autonomous regions as well as the directors of poverty alleviation offices of the potato-producing counties in the contiguous poor areas. The conference was divided into a few parts, including field observation, idea exchange, lectures by experts, merchant inviting and contract signing, etc. Director Hai Bo of the Development and Guidance Department of LGOP chaired the meeting and delivered a concluding speech.

    3Held a work conference on deepening financial cooperation for poverty alleviation. From April 19 to 20, 2012, LGOP and the Export-Import Bank of China jointly held the "Work Conference on Deeping Financial Cooperation for Poverty Alleviation" in Guilin, Guangxi. More than 100 people attended the event, including relevant persons from the Development and Guidance Department of LGOP and China Poverty Alleviation and Development Center, relevant leaders of the provincial (autonomous region and municipality) poverty alleviation offices and relevant persons in charge of financial cooperation in poverty reduction, representatives of the fourth batch of enterprises for anti-poverty financial cooperation projects declared by various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) as well as relevant comrades from the branches of the Export-Import Bank of China. The meeting conducted in-depth summary of the anti-poverty financial cooperation since 2008 and organized relevant business training. LGOP Deputy Director Wang Guoliang was present at the meeting and delivered a speech.

    4Convened China Industrial Poverty Alleviation • Beef Cattle Industry Development Summit From July 26 to 27, 2012, the China Industrial Poverty Alleviation • Beef Cattle Industry Development Summit was held in Fengdu County of Chongqing City jointly by LGOP, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, Three Gorges Project Construction Office of the State Council, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Chongqing Municipal People's Government. More than 500 people attended the meeting, including relevant leaders of LGOP, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, Three Gorges Project Construction Office of the State Council, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Chongqing Municipal People's Government, and relevant principals and experts from the poverty alleviation offices of 26 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and relevant departments of Chongqing City. The summit was convened to summarize the experience of various regions in industrial poverty alleviation, learn from the successful practice of beef cattle industry development of Fengdu County, and explore effective ways and measures to promote the development of impoverished areas and lift the poor out of poverty by industrial development. LGOP Deputy Director Wang Guoliang attended the event and delivered a speech.

    (Development and Guidance Department, LGOP)               

    Rain Plan

    In 2012, a total of 1.65 billion yuan of financial funds from governments at all levels was invested in the Rain Plan, of which 720 million yuan was used to organize labor transfer trainings for 1.05 million person-times; 250 million yuan was for agricultural technology trainings for 2.1 million person-times; 190 million yuan for trainings of leaders in becoming rich and other relevant trainings for 430,000 person-times; 490 million yuan for the reform of the Rain Plan implementation mode, which covered 100 counties nationwide in the first half of that year with subsidy funds of 170 million yuan and 203 counties in the second half of that year with subsidy funds of 320 million yuan, aiming to subsidize 460,000 students.

    In 2010 and 2011, the junior and senior middle school graduates from pilot counties for the reform of the Rain Plan implementation mode who received secondary or higher vocational education successively graduated, and this rate increased from 24.71% in 2011 to 26.07% in 2012, with an increase of 1.36 percentage points.

    Continued to carry out the "Rain Plan • Taking-off Project". In 2012, as the sponsors, LGOP and All-China Women's Federation (ACWF) continued to implement the "Rain Plan • Taking-off Project – Action to Assist Ten Thousand Applied Talents in Central and Western Regions". Changsha Global Vocational Education Group was the organizer of this event.

    Launched the "Rain Plan • Sailing Project". In 2012, LGOP and Central Committee of China Communist Youth League jointly launched the "Rain Plan • Sailing Project – Action to Assist Ten Thousand Applied Talents in Central and Western Regions" as the sponsors. Changsha Global Vocational Education Group and Shaanxi Zhenhua Institute were the organizers.

    Continued to implement the pilot project of "Rain Plan in Guizhou and Shenzhen". In 2012, we recruited 500 students (including 50 students recruited jointly with Weining County Vocational School) in five key counties of Bijie in Guizhou, namely Weining, Nayong, Dafang, Zhijin and Hezhang, and sent them to study in Shenzhen Xiechuang Technical School.

    (Department of Policy and Regulation of LGOP

    Construction of old revolutionary base areas

    1Actively implemented the pilot project of supporting poverty alleviation and development in old revolutionary base areas with central special lottery public welfare funds. In 2012, the construction of old revolutionary base areas was further strengthened. Based on the central special lottery public welfare funds for the entire village advancement of old revolutionary base areas, 275 million yuan of additional investment was issued to support the pilot poverty relief projects of 62 counties in Shandong Qimeng Old Revolutionary Base Area, former Central Soviet Area in Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi, the old revolutionary base areas in Sichuan and Shaanxi as well as Qingyang Old Revolutionary Base Area in Gansu Province. Under the principle of fairness, public welfare, production-oriented, centralized capital investment and free project selection of local government, the project supported the construction of small production public facilities, expanding the coverage of the pilot program supported by central special lottery public welfare funds to the old revolutionary base areas in the eastern regions.

    2Made steady progress in the pilot project of entire village advancement in old revolutionary base areas supported by central special lottery public welfare funds. In 2012, 525 million yuan of central special lottery public welfare funds were allocated for the implementation of pilot entire village advancement in the old revolutionary base areas of 353 villages in 35 poverty-stricken old revolutionary base counties of 19 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities). According to the plan, 9864 infrastructure sub-projects, 12557 environment and public service sub-projects and 8038 industrial development sub-projects will be launched.

    3Held the "Exchange Meeting and Seminar on Poverty Alleviation and Development in Old Revolutionary Base Areas Supported by Central Lottery Public Welfare Funds". From September 19 to 21, 2012, LGOP held the "Exchange Meeting and Seminar on Poverty Alleviation and Development in Old Revolutionary Base Areas Supported by Central Lottery Public Welfare Funds" in Linyi City, Shandong Province. More than 100 people attended the event and exchanged experience and practices in poverty alleviation and development in old revolutionary base areas, including relevant deputy directors and business directors of the poverty alleviation offices (bureaus) of 22 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities). The conference made deployment for Central Special Lottery Public Welfare Funds to support the pilot project of poverty alleviation and development in old revolutionary base areas. LGOP Deputy Director Wang Guoliang was present at the meeting and delivered a speech.

    4Applied for small public facility construction projects in contiguous poor areas with special difficulties. On June 4, 2012, LGOP sent to the Ministry of Finance "A Letter on Declaration of Small Public Facility Construction Projects in Contiguous Poor Areas Supported by Central Special Lottery Public Welfare Funds" (Guo Kai Ban Han No.201275) and applied for central special lottery public welfare funds to support the poverty reduction in contiguous poor areas from 2013 to 2015. On December 24, 2012, the Ministry of Finance replied (Cai Zong Han No.201279): Approved by the State Council, from 2013 to 2015, the Ministry of Finance will allocate 2.4 billion yuan of central special lottery public welfare funds to support the small public facility construction in old revolutionary base areas of contiguous poor areas, covering traffic, water conservancy and environment improvement, etc.     

    (Development and Guidance Department, LGOP)

    Pilot project of poverty alleviation in contiguous poor areas with special difficulties

    1. Pilot project of poverty alleviation in border areas of Xinjiang. In 2012, in accordance with the requirements and plan of the "Guidance on the Expansion of Pilot Areas for Poverty Alleviation in Border Areas of Xinjiang", focusing on the pilot work in the frontline, taking entire village advancement as the platform, we further implemented the "Planning on the Expansion of Pilot Areas for Poverty Alleviation in Border Areas of Xinjiang (2011-2015)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Planning") and the overall operation situation was good.

    1Capital project operation and overall progress in the implementation of the "Planning"

    In September 2010, LGOP and the People’s Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region held the work conference on poverty alleviation and development in Xinjiang and decided to expand the pilot area of poverty reduction in border regions to 17 key counties (cities) in the frontline. 2012 is the second year for the implementation of the “Planning” for poverty alleviation in border areas. During the three years from 2010 to 2012, the state and the autonomous regions allocated 19.1 billion yuan of poverty relief funds for the 17 key counties (cities), of which 1.46 billion yuan was financial anti-poverty funds, including 510 million yuan of special funds for pilot poverty reduction in border areas, covering 298 poverty relief projects; 12.6 billion yuan was industrial poverty alleviation funds; 4.51 billion yuan was poverty relief funds for Xinjiang and 530 million Yuan was social poverty alleviation funds.

    In 2012, the state and the autonomous regions allocated 170 million yuan of poverty relief funds for 136 pilot projects in border areas, including 63 livestock breeding projects, 21 agricultural projects, 4 water conservancy projects, 2 household handwork projects, one traffic project and 45 residential building and other projects. The projects were launched in 125 border impoverished villages. In 2012, entire village advancement projects were implemented in 55 border impoverished villages and consolidated in 70 border impoverished villages. As of the end of November, 170 million yuan of funds had been issued for the pilot project, 100% allocated; and the reimbursed funds was actually 169.52 million yuan, with a reimbursement rate of 99.7%. 136 projects were launched and136 projects were completed, each accounting for 100% of the total; and 130 projects passed the examination and were accepted, accounting for 96% of the total. The project directly benefited 19,500 poverty-stricken households and 82,000 poor people in border areas and indirectly benefited 31,000 poor households and 131,000 poor people.

    As for the leverage of the pilot funds for poverty reduction in border areas in 2012, 170 million yuan of funds was issued for the pilot poverty reduction in border areas that year, which encouraged the investment of 7.55 billion yuan of other funds, of which 610 million yuan was special poverty relief funds, 4.71 billion yuan was industrial poverty alleviation funds, 130 million yuan was social poverty alleviation funds and 2.1 billion yuan was Xinjiang-supporting poverty relief funds. The amplification factor (total funds / pilot funds) of the border poverty reduction funds was 44.4 and the amplification effect was obvious. With the implementation and completion of various projects, the poverty reduction in border areas of Xinjiang was accelerated, the rural areas of 17 key counties in border regions witnessed rapid economic growth, the livelihood of border residents was significantly improved and the poverty situation was relieved obviously.

    2Effectiveness of the pilot projects

    Rural per capita net income witnessed rapid growth. In 2012, the rural per capita net income of the 17 key counties (cities) in border areas amounted to 5235 yuan, with an increase of 1075 yuan over the previous year, up 25.8%; the rural per capita net income of the frontline reached 4717 yuan, with an increase of 508 yuan, up 12%, the per capita net income of the border guarding households amounted to 2898 yuan, with an increase of 418 yuan, up 21.7%; and that of the households near the border reached 3653 yuan, with an increase of 437 yuan, up 15.7%.

    Overfulfilled the task of the annual poverty reduction plan. In 2012, 23,000 households and 96,000 people (including 16,000 households and 68,000 people in the frontline) in the 17 key counties (cities) for border poverty reduction lived above the poverty line, respectively completing 106% and 104% of the plan; the incidence of poverty declined from 38.4% in 2011 to 35.8% in 2012, down 2.6%. Among these areas, Hetian County, Yecheng County, Taxkorgan County, Wuqia County, Aheqi County, Chabuchar County, Tuoli County and Yumin County overfulfilled the annual poverty reduction task.

    The production and living conditions of impoverished villages in border areas have been improved significantly. In 2012, we solved many problems in the 17 key counties (cities) in border areas for poverty reduction, including the water problem of 22 border impoverished villages, the electricity problem of 21 poor villages, the asphalt road problem of 30 impoverished villages, the telephone problem of 11 poor villages, the broadcasting and TV problem of 8 impoverished villages, the information access problem of 13 impoverished villages, the heating installation problem of 8 impoverished villages, the postal communication problem of 17 impoverished villages and the regular bus problem of 16 impoverished villages as well. As a result, the infrastructure of border impoverished villages has been significantly improved.

    The level of "Three Guarantees" of border residents has been constantly enhanced. In 2012, 5237 affordable houses were built for the border residents in 75 settlement areas of herdsmen with a total area of 420,000 square meters, with an increase of nearly 110,000 square meters over the previous year. The enrollment rate of bilingual kindergartens increased from 39.5% in 2011 to 51.2%, and the proportion of junior middle school students enrolled to high school rose from 36.7% to 52.4%. 23 border impoverished villages were equipped with newly built clinics, 28 border impoverished villages were equipped with newly built culture rooms, and 20 border impoverished villages were equipped with newly built bilingual pre-school education site. The number of doctors in the hospital of towns with at least ten thousand residents increased from 9.4 in 2011 to 10.4, 1.72 million people participated in the new rural cooperative medical system and 650,000 people were covered by the new rural social pension insurance.

    The capacity of border residents for sustained income growth has been enhanced. In 2012, we newly built 4,223 covered pens, 19,100 mu of fooder grass base and 7,000 mu of sown pasture, purchased 22,800 heads of small livestock and 2,218 heads of big livestock, supported 115 border households to develop household embroidery industry, supported 1,348 border households to develop yard economy, implemented 5,400 mu of water-saving irrigation projects, planted 2466 mu of plateau snow daisy, 11000 mu of sea buckthorn, 5700 mu of potatoes, 2000 mu of licorice and 5000 mu of cynomorium. 469,000 rural labors in the border areas mastered one or two practical agricultural technologies and achieved employment transfer. Their income growth channels have been broadened and the quality and skills of the border residents have been significantly improved.

    Regional economy of the border counties (cities) witnessed rapid growth. In 2012, the GDP of the 17 border key counties (cities) amounted to 33 billion yuan, up 15%. The GDP of the primary, secondary and tertiary industry was respectively 10.73 billion yuan, 12.32 billion yuan, 9.93 billion yuan, up 16.3%, 14.7% and 13% respectively, and the local financial revenue was 4.24 billion yuan and the per capita local financial revenue was 1611 yuan, with an increase of 434 yuan over 2011, up 36.8%.

    2Pilot project of poverty alleviation and development as well as AIDS prevention and control in Daliangshan Mountain and Xiaoliangshan Mountain of Sichuan Province

    1Overall progress

    As of the end of December 2012, a total of 8.979 billion yuan was put in the pilot project with allocation rate up to 101.76%, of which 6.56 billion yuan was from the provincial government, 1.05 billion yuan was from city, prefecture and county governments, 1.351 billion yuan was raised by farmers and 17.5211 million yuan was from other sources, respectively accounting for 99.4%, 161.8%, 95.2% and 8% of the planned investment. A total of 35 large-scale projects and 118 sub-projects were launched, and the project competition rate reached 81%.

    2Operation situation of special projects

    Projects in Yijia new village: 2.564 billion yuan was put in, accounting for 101.9% of the planned investment, of which 1.004 billion yuan was from the central and provincial government, 2.36 billion yuan was from the city (prefecture) and county governments and 1.307 billion yuan was raised by farmers, respectively accounting for 105%, 97% and 99% of the planned investment, and 16.9891 million yuan was from other sources as well.

    Planned to construct 296 Yijia new villages and the comprehensive completion rate was 61%. We planned to build houses for 25141 households and have completed the construction of houses for 23440 households, accounting for 93.2% of the total. The remaining 1711 households' houses are being built. Meanwhile, we have completed the construction of 60% of the public facilities and village roads, solved the safe drinking water problem of 95,000 people, built 7,000 rural biogas digesters and completed the household electricity projects for 8017 households in Liangshan Prefecture and 5494 households in Leshan City, with completion rate up to 60%.

    Development of featured industries: 299 million yuan was allocated, accounting for 100.3% of the planned investment, of which 272 million yuan was from the central and provincial government and 27.0933 million yuan was raised by farmers, respectively 116% and 84% of the planned figure.

    Planting industry: Except the apple industry base construction project of 10,000 mu (completed 80%) and the soil testing and formulated fertilization subsidy project (completed 70%), all other projects have been basically completed. Leshan City has completed the projects of forestry and fruit growing, returning farmland to forest, forest cultivation and green prickleyash and walnut tree planting projects. Animal husbandry: Leshan City has, according to the plan, completed the construction of one standardized breeding community and one provincial standardization demonstration base; except the on-going provincial standardized breeding demonstration base project for modern stock faming in Yi Area, Liangshan Prefecture has completed the project of returning grazing land to grassland of 500,000 mu, accounting for 50% of the total task, and completed all other projects.

    AIDS prevention and control and health work: 199 million yuan of funds was allocated, accounting for 285.23% of the planned investment, all from the central and provincial government.

    Capacity building for health services: Recruited 15 certified doctors for township hospitals, provided free trainings for medical students for rural areas, arranged 69 people to study in universities, and completed the training of 100 general practitioners of grassroots medical agencies in the province. Maternal and child health care: The project of hospital delivery of rural pregnant and lying-in women has achieved initial success, the HIV screening and testing for pregnant and lying-in women and their babies significantly reduced the impact of AIDS, syphilis and hepatitis B on the health of women and children. Medical and health service system building: Increased investment to improve medical level health; and various medical infrastructure projects are being constructed. AIDS prevention and control: Carried out AIDS treatment and CD4 testing for 5348 person-times, set up ten clinics for methadone maintenance, increased 69 points and treated a total of 10182 patients; carried out needling instrument exchange work, issued 35969 syringes and recycled 31074 syringes.

    Drug control and treatment: 20.9153 million yuan was allocated, accounting for 84.37% of the planned investment, of which 10.47 million yuan was from the central and provincial governments and 9.9133 million yuan was from city (prefecture) and county governments, respectively 157% and 55% of the planned figure, and 532,000 yuan was funds from other sources.

    20,915,300 yuan was invested for the dynamic control of drug addicts, information construction for sources blocking and drug control, drug prevention and treatment, propaganda and education on drug prevention, drug enforcement equipment maintenance, infrastructure maintenance, etc. Cracked 519 drug-dealing cases, seized 47.2 kilograms of heroin, 5.25 kg of opium and opium puree, and arrested 558 criminals.

    Compulsory education and vocational education: 193 million yuan of funds was put in, accounting for 84.68% of the planned investment, of which 173 million yuan was from the central and provincial governments and 20.4827 million yuan was from the city (prefecture) and county governments, respectively 117% and 26% of the planned figure.

    53.39 million yuan was invested for the renovation and maintenance of 31 schools with a construction area of 32151 square meters; 7.05 million yuan was invested for the procurement of teaching instruments, facilities, books and relevant materials. Completed the training of 1,400 teachers; invested 15.62 million yuan to set up 439 teacher turnover dormitories of 15,620 square meters for 21 school; provided living subsidies for 127,467 boarding students in their compulsory education period, provided free beddings for 3186 additional boarding students, built small farms for 45 schools, opened the live, taped and implantable teaching of network school at East News of Chengdu No.7 Middle School for 27 primary and secondary schools, comprehensively started the vocational school building of 18,206 square meters, purchased 150 sets of teaching and training equipment. Subsidies and free tuition for secondary vocational school students: 12,409 secondary vocational school students were exempted from tuition and obtained living allowance.

    Labor training: 16.7157 million yuan was put in, accounting for 187.71% of the planned investment, all of which was from the central and provincial governments.

    The rural labor transfer program was developed to train 7,385 people and the labor brand program was developed to complete the training of 2,528 people. The labor union skill training program has completed the training of 642 people and the labor training program for poverty alleviation completed the training of 7,054 people.

    Highroad building: 5.241 billion yuan was allocated, accounting for 96.5% of the planned investment, of which 4.542 billion yuan was from the central and provincial governments and 699 million yuan was from the city (prefecture) and county governments, respectively 91% and 269% of the planned figure.

    Highway: Ya'an-Lugu highway has been built and opened to traffic and Lijiang- Panzhihua Highway is under construction. Arterial highway: The main project of Mabian-Meigu highway along S103 has been basically completed, and five projects are being implemented, namely Jinkouhe – Baixionggou Highway along S306, the highway from Leibo County of Luyan Road to Leibo Pingtou Road along S307, the highway from Zhaojue County of Luyan Road to Leibo Pingtou Road along S307, Yanyuan Dajinhe-Pingchuan Township Road along S307 and Ganluo County-Yuexi Zhongsuo along S208. Meanwhile, we are inviting bidding for the construction of the road from Zhaojue Qingheng to Jinyang County along S208 and this project is expected to be launched in early 2013. Rural roads: Built 142.1 km of township asphalt roads (concrete roads), 115 km of village roads and 264.7 km of village concrete roads (asphalt roads).

    Water conservancy construction: 391 million yuan was allocated, accounting for 175.56% of the planned investment, of which: 291 million yuan was from the central and provincial governments, 8.32 million yuan was from the city (prefectural) and county governments and 16.44 million yuan was raised by the farmers, respectively accounting for 158%, 497% and 596% of the planned figure.  

    The preliminary design is being conducted for Longtang Reservoir Project in Yanyuan County. Completed the construction of channels of 150 km, 58 cellars, pools and mountain ponds, dikes and revetments of 60 km, solved the drinking water problem of 131,000 rural residents, including 95,000 people from Yijia New Village. Other work is moving forward smoothly.

    Social security: 16.2 million yuan was put in, accounting for 66% of the planned investment, of which: 5.7 million yuan was from the central government and 10.5 million yuan from the provincial government, respectively 38% and 100% of the planned figure.

    Rural and urban minimum living security and medical assistance both overfulfilled the task. Leshan City completed the construction of one nursing home for centralized support for the objects of the "five-guarantee" system, one relief station and one funeral home. Funds have been provided to support the construction of ten nursing homes for centralized support for the objects of the "five-guarantee" system, social welfare centers, rescue shelters and funeral homes in Liangshan Prefecture, and these projects have all been launched so far.

    Modern civilized new life: 38.15 million yuan was allocated, accounting for 61% of the planned investment, of which 37.33 million yuan was from the central and government governments and 820,000 yuan was from the city (prefectural) and county governments, respectively 62.8% and 23% of the planned figure.

    Set up five "Children's Palaces of Rural Schools", showed 32340 public films, opened 633 farmer's bookstores (including 89 for Yijia New Village) and completed the construction of other cultural facilities. The National Fitness Project is being further implemented, but the project to enhance the translation capacity of the broadcasting and TV programs in Yi language in Liangshan Prefecture has not been launched yet.

    3Pilot project of poverty alleviation and comprehensive governance of Weining Karst Area of Guizhou

    1Progress

    Infrastructure construction: Actively promoted the reconstruction of National Highway 326, Provincial Highway 102 and county roads as well as the construction of township roads, coal-transporting lines and tourism lines, completed asphalt road building for all villages, actively promoted the construction of Biwei Highway, Weishui Highway and Weizhao Highway; accelerated the implementation of small and medium backbone water resources projects, dam reinforcement projects, water saving projects for small and medium irrigated areas and "five small" water conservancy projects; promoted the upgrading of rural power grid, comprehensively completed the construction of 220kV, 110kV and 35kV supporting grids in the county to enhance power supply capacity; accelerated the construction of wireless digital cities and digital villages, continued to strive to achieve full coverage of the "four in one" project in the field of rural broadcasting, film and television, and steadily promote the convergence of telecommunications networks, radio and TV networks and the Internet.

    Poverty alleviation by industrialization: Continued to implement the "five million" project, namely the one million-mu ecological animal husbandry base on grassland, one million-mu seed and fresh potato base, one million-mu vegetables and Chinese herbal medicine base, one million-mu quality tobacco leaf base and one million-mu fruit forest base; created the "Caohai Eco-tourism Circle" based on the core resources for tourism in Caohai, built the wetland eco-tourism scenic spots, promote the construction of a number of major tourism projects, including Caohai International Leisure Base, Yinlong Happy Town, etc., accelerated the development of tourism resources, launched a series of eco-tourism and vacation tour products, and set up tourist areas of ethnic customs represented by the ancient city of Uzzah.

    Promoted national cultural development: Vigorously implemented the cultural heritage protection projects, cultural boutique refining projects and cultural industry cultivation projects; accelerated the construction of core ethnic culture demonstration gardens, including Uzza Badiluwang and Mukalama Happy Town, Li Ana Ethnic Customs Park, etc., and promoted the construction of county, township and village (community) cultural service facilities, forming the modern public cultural service system synchronized with social development, meeting the needs of the masses, and integrated with modern technology with social and economic benefits.

    Strengthened and innovated social management: Actively promoted the grid social management, improved the information network, grassroots work network and professional services network; improved the grassroots management and service systems, vigorously improved the management of floating population and rural residents left behind; improved and maintained the mass rights and interests safeguarding mechanisms, dredged channels for public opinions; accelerated the construction of "four districts of peace and harmony" and improved the community grid service management system and the mechanism for "three linkage video interview".

    Further promoted the implementation of pilot projects in Weining: Comprehensively promote the practices in "poverty alleviation and development, ecological construction and population control", and accumulated experiences in six fields, namely emancipating the mind and improving quality to lead the overall development of contiguous poor areas; comprehensive management and environment optimization to promote the coordinated development of contiguous poor areas; scientific planning based on local actual situation to promote the poverty alleviation and development in contiguous poor areas; cultivating industries by measures to local conditions to accelerate the sustainable development of contiguous poor areas; encouraging innovations to make breakthroughs in the development of contiguous poor areas; and strengthening party building and laying a solid foundation to promote the leapfrog development of contiguous poor areas.

    2Effectiveness of the pilot projects

    Strong economic growth momentum: In 2012, the GDP reached 9.52 billion yuan, fiscal revenue was 1.4 billion yuan, and the fiscal spending was 4.8 billion yuan, respectively up 17% (comparable prices), 35.7% and 17.1%; as for merchant inviting, contracts worth 19.885 billion yuan was signed and 11.5 billion yuan was allocated, up 46.49%; the fixed assets investment reached 13.2 billion yuan, industrial output value reached 7.1 billion yuan, deposits in financial institutions amounted to 6,000,000,000 yuan, various loans of financial institutions amounted to 3.1 billion yuan, disposable income of urban residents was 17,999 yuan, and the rural per capita cash income reached 5,300 yuan during this period, respectively up 78.13%, 44.89%, 13%, 67%, 26.99% and 30.28%.

    Remarkable results in poverty alleviation and development: Continued to promote the "poverty reduction", explored the establishment of the new mode of poverty reduction by party building and corporate groups in Yinan, Haila, etc. As a result, the income of the poor continuously increased and their production and living conditions have been significantly improved. 16 of the 26 key impoverished towns achieved poverty reduction. So far, according to the poverty line of 1196 Yuan, all the rural poor have shaken off poverty. Based on the poverty line of 2300 yuan, however, there was a reduction of 91,200 in the number of poor residents in the whole county.

    Breakthrough in infrastructure construction: The 11.85-kilometer ring road with an investment of 127 million yuan has been built and put into use; the 20.6-kilometer Weining Road of Biwei Highway with an investment of 560 million yuan has been built and opened to traffic; 299 million yuan was put in to implement 104 safe drinking water projects in rural areas, solving the drinking water problem of 660,000 rural residents; launched CATV village projects in 35 towns, achieving full coverage of the local towns; 15 power transmission projects with an investment of 1.545 billion yuan and the rural grid upgrading project with an investment of 1.025 billion yuan will soon be completed, ending the electroless history of remote rural households, and the power supply is expected to reach 670 million degrees, with an increase of 6.26%.

    Obvious ecological effect: Completed rocky desertification control of 63.99 square kilometers, soil erosion modulus decreased from 4,125 tons per square kilometer per year to 2,896 tons per square kilometer per year; built various artificial forests of 644,000 mu, the forest area increased from 3.15 million mu to 3.8 million mu, and the forest coverage rate reached 40.2%. Increased efforts for ecological protection of Caohai National Nature Reserve and the overall planning for the comprehensive management of Caohai has been approved.

    Continued to solve problems relating to people's livelihood: Fully completed the renovation of dilapidated houses for 55,597 rural households and dismantled the dilapidated houses of 11,896 households; increased 3,540 households of "Four Benefits with Farmers" and the number of households of "Four Benefits with Farmers" in the county reached 64,434; 481,800 people participated in the urban and rural social endowment insurance system, the participation rate reached 90.81% and the system achieved full coverage of senior residents above 60 years of age; comprehensively implemented "three 150,000 yuan" policy to support micro and small businesses, and the county's new urban jobs are expected to exceed 60,000; All towns were equipped with hospitals and all villages were equipped with clinics; the number of medical technicians of the county reached 1,690 and the participation rate of the medical insurance system for urban and rural residents reached 99.59%.

    Accelerated the development of social undertakings. Achieved gross enrollment rate of pre-school education of 38.48%, compulsory education retention rate of 85.51% and gross enrollment rate of high school of 48.28%; the masses' sense of social security increased from 70.98% in 2009 to 93.53% this year. In 2012, the birth rate was 8.21‰, down 0.87‰, and the natural population growth rate was 4.14‰, down 0.57‰. The excessive population growth trend has been reversed effectively.

    Significantly improved the level of scientization of party building. The village party branch secretaries of "one good and double strong" in the county accounted for 96.5% of the total, village organization building has been strengthened; the honest administration deposit system for cadres has been established and confiscated 4.29 million yuan of honest administration deposit; strived to set up "three lines of defense", namely the ideology and morality line, early warning and error correction line and party discipline and state laws; improved the unified management of county-level discipline inspection and supervision agencies and promoted the normalization of the "three visits" campaign.

    4Pilot poverty alleviation by potato industry in Dingxi City of Gansu Province

    1Progress

    In 2012, the pilot projects were launched in 32 key villages of 18 towns in five counties (districts), namely Anding District, Weiyuan County, Longxi County, Lintao County and Tongwei County. It introduced 3 million original seeds, newly built grade I seed breeding bases of 10717 mu, invested to construct one potato germplasm bank, one potato outcome exhibition hall, one potato quality inspection center, one agricultural products quality and safety testing center and 20 breeder’s seed breeding greenhouses, organized potato planting skills trainings for 2100 person-times and supported 4,000 poverty-stricken households.

    2Effectiveness of the pilot projects

    Initially addressed the low level of potato detoxication and seed potato improvement. Relying on the financial anti-poverty funds issued by the central government, Dingxi City supported the development of seed potato enterprises such as Hannong Center, Ailan Company, Kaikai Propagation Center and Weiheyuan Company. On the one hand, it focused on the virus-free propagation of Longshu No.3, Xindaping and other quality species suited to local area and, on the other hand, attached importance to the virus-free breeding of varieties of market shortage with a high degree of specialization such as Daxiyang and Xiabodi, aiming to improve the production capacity of virus-free seed potatoes. It introduced and put in 129 million breeder's seeds, built the breeder's seed cultivation sheds of 11,900 mu, and produced 23,800 tons of virus-free breeder's seeds. The virus-free seed potato application rate in the city rose from 20% in 2006 to 60% in 2012. Meanwhile, the city actively provided 109 million Longshu No.3 and Longshu No.5 seeds, 5350 tons of original seeds and 9,300 tons of Grade I seed potatoes for Xinjiang, Qinghai, Yunnan, Sichuan, Inner Mongolia and Ningxia, effectively promoting the development of potato industry in surrounding poor areas.

    Initially addressed the difficulty of propagation from original seeds to Grade I seeds of potatoes. A total of 323,200 mu of Grade I seed potato bases was set up in seven counties (districts) of the city, with an output of 646,400 tons; 530,000 mu of Grade II virus-free seed potato bases were set up with an output of 870,000 tons; and the improved seed potato application rate increased from 67% in 2006 to 95% in 2012.

    Initially addressed the difficulty in income growth of impoverished people. In 2012, the city's rural per capita income obtained from the potato industry reached 680 yuan, with a net increase of 200 yuan compared with that of 2006, accounting for 27% of the per capita net income of farmers; the per capita potato planting area of the 133,200 impoverished households was more than one mu and the impoverished households achieved per capita net income of 650 yuan, accounting for more than 50% of the per capita net income of poor households. In 2012, the planting area reached 3 million mu, the planting area in four counties (districts) maintained above 500,000 mu, and this figure in Anding District exceeded 1 million mu. This county entered into the ranks of potato planting counties in China with output of fresh potatoes of more than 5 million tons. In fact, the output of processed potato starch and relevant products reached 87,000 tons; the number of various storage cellars (banks) reached  930,000 with storage capacity of 3.06 million tons, and the export volume reached 993,000 tons The development of potato industry in Dingxi not only played a positive role in addressing the food problem of the poor, but laid a good foundation for the stable income growth of the rural residents in Dingxi, accumulating experience and exploring ways for the sound and rapid economic development with regional characteristics of poor areas.

    5Pilot work of industrial poverty alleviation in the arid zones of Central Ningxia

    Project name: Model village project for the improvement of quality and efficiency of beef cattle breeding

    Coverage: Based on the declaration of the county (city, district) government and the field survey of relevant county (district) poverty alleviation offices, agricultural and animal husbandry bureaus and Ningxia Xiahua Meat Food Co., Ltd organized by the Autonomous Regional Office of Poverty Alleviation, 27 impoverished villages with a certain foundation for beef cattle breeding were identified as the demonstration villages for the improvement of quality and efficiency of beef cattle breeding in the central arid areas in 2012, including five in Tongxin County, six in Haiyuan County, four in Hongsipu District, three in Zhongning County, three in Shapotou District, four in Yuanzhou District and two in Xiji County.

    Project description: Central government funds for the pilot work are mainly used to help demonstration villages address the major difficulties and key links restricting the development of beef cattle industry. The content of the program include: 6888 base cows for the registered impoverished households and 2000 yuan for each cow; one set of registration equipment for each cooperatives of the beef cattle breeding demonstration villages; free improved species cultivation service for impoverished households; support poor villages to purchase air conditioning and refrigeration parts and build technical service stations; support silage pool construction demonstration; increase support for impoverished villages and households to purchase hay cutters and hay mowers based on the state subsidy for agricultural machinery purchase; arrange unified purchase and distribution service for beef cattle breeding demonstration villages and carry out demonstration of mineral nutrition licking brick; organize a 14-day technical and management personnel training in Xiahua Company for the beef cattle breeding demonstration villages, two people for each village; and carry out trainings for 1,000 people from the demonstration households for improvement of quality and efficiency of beef cattle breeding, including 150 from Tongxin County, 200 from Haiyuan County, 100 from Hongsipu District, 100 from Zhongning County, 100 from Shapotou District, 200 from Yuanzhou District and 150 from Xiji County as well.

    Project progress: First, the pilot counties (districts) had a comprehensive understanding of the basic situation of beef cattle breeding in the pilot model villages, purchased computers and other registration equipment for the model villages and recorded the beef cattle breeding situation of relevant households; Second, beef cattle breeding cooperatives were established and improved in the model villages; Third, cold storage improvement service stations were comprehensively set up and improved, the demonstrative construction of silage pools was fully completed and the improved species promotion and popularization rate increased; Fourth, held a 15-day training for 36 cooperatives’' management and technical persons of 27 demonstration villages for the pilot work.

    6Pilot project of comprehensive management of poverty alleviation in Shanyao area of Yao Nationality in Funing of Yunnan Province

    1Progress

    To thoroughly solve the problems in the life of Shanyao people, in accordance with the guiding ideology of "relocation, tree planting and development of education", Yunnan Province actively explored the establishment of three support modes, namely "resettlement in counties and towns, relocation within the county, and local resettlement" to promote the development of Shanyao people. As of the end of 2012, 317 million yuan of various subsidies was issued, accounting for 97.85% of the total (324 million yuan), of which: 69.34 million yuan was from development and reform departments, 94.56 million yuan was from education departments, 71.415 million yuan (including financial anti-poverty funds of 20 million yuan from the central government) from poverty alleviation departments, 9.462 million yuan from ethnic affairs departments, 14.26 million yuan from water conservancy sector, 12.05 million yuan from transport sector, 10.38 million yuan from housing and urban-rural development departments, 4.3 million yuan from agricultural sector, 2.39 million yuan from forestry departments, 480,000 yuan from cultural departments, 400,000 yuan from the departments of human resources and social security, one million yuan from land and resources departments, 9.8948 million yuan from civil affairs departments, 850,000 yuan from radio and television departments, 800,000 yuan from technology sector, 240,000 yuan from health sector , 10 million yuan raised by the prefectures and counties themselves, and 5.45 million yuan provided by Shanghai. Initial success was made in six major projects, namely infrastructure construction, housing and food project, subsistence project, industrial development, quality improvement, environmental protection and construction as well as livelihood security. The production and living environment of the poor in Shanyao area has been initially improved.

    2Project construction

    Infrastructure projects. Focusing on housing, drinking water, electricity, roads and communication facility construction with a total investment of 38.958 million yuan, the government set up affordable houses for 460 households, and 430 people from 86 households all moved into Nagang Resettlement Point. Meanwhile, it newly built and rebuilt ten village roads of 54 km, built 124 small water cellars, installed drinking water pipes of 123.5 km, erected transmission lines of 1.4 km, and is implementing the power grids for 18 villager teams, effectively alleviating the difficulties of Shanyao people in housing, drinking water, electricity and roads and significantly improving the living environment and village appearance.

    Capacity-building projects. Continued to consolidate the Shanyao classes in No.1 Primary School of the county, issued monthly living allowance of 20 yuan, 30 yuan and 50 yuan per person for primary, secondary and high school students respectively, and 150 yuan per person per month for vocational high school students. For university students, in addition to the one-time subsidy of 3000 yuan per person, the government issued 2000 yuan per person per year for bachelor students and 1500 yuan per person per year for college students, paid in full to the Shanyao students. Meanwhile, 53.45 million yuan was put in to support the construction of Guichao Minority Middle School, the County Vocational Middle School, the County Ethnic Middle School, Dongbo Middle School and some other Shanyao schools, improve the canteens, dormitories and other buildings of the central primary schools in Shanyao area, promote the education infrastructure construction for Shanyao area and improve the quality of education.

    Income-growth projects. In 2012, 111 trainings were held for 5747 people. The government strived to arrange the Shanyao people through various channels, guided them to work outside local area, developed public service jobs, coordinated Yongxin Sugar Mill and Fujia Oil-tea Camellia Factory to employ more than 80 Shanyao people, actively encouraged Shanyao people to participate in the construction of sugarcane, tea and other industrial bases to broaden their income growth channels, and invested 1.8 million yuan to implement slope terracing projects of 1000 mu and rainwater harvesting for irrigation of 2000 mu, aiming to improve the agricultural infrastructure in Shanyao area and increase the crop yields and economic income of farmers.

    Livelihood security projects. 8394 eligible people in living difficulties were all covered by the urban and rural minimum living security system. From January to December, a total of 10.354 million yuan of subsistence allowances was issued, and the county government allocated some financial funds and integrated special subsidy of civil affairs departments, totaling 527,600 yuan, to pay insurance premium for Shanyao people to participate in the urban medical insurance and the new rural cooperative medical insurance system to ensure the medical insurance policy cover 100% of Shanyao people. In addition, the government put in one million yuan for the construction of a second-class seniors' home to improve the conditions for centralized support of lonely, widowed seniors; and invested 240,000 yuan to build four village clinics to further alleviate the difficulty for Shanyao people to see a doctor.

    3Effectiveness of the pilot projects

    Through a series of supportive policies, Shanyao people's production and living conditions have been significantly improved, and the planning objectives have been basically achieved, embodied in: First, per capita arable land area increased. Through external migration of Shanyao people and collective land circulation, in 2012, per capita arable land of Shanyao people reached one mu and per capita grain was 320 kg, respectively with an increase of 0.13 mu and 145 kg; Second, income was significantly increased. Since 2009, Shanyao area developed a total of 4950 mu of tea-oil tree planting area, 6450 mu of sugarcane area and 137 mu of walnut tree planting area, transferred 1120 labors to non-local areas and more than 830 labors to the enterprises within the county, broadening the sources of income of the Shanyao masses. In 2012, the per capita net income of Shanyao people reached 3135 yuan, with an increase of 2465 yuan. Third, living standards have been enhanced significantly. Shanyao people's income increased , housing conditions have been improved, most of the Shanyao people have gradually used home appliances, and the TV and telephone penetration rate respectively reached 85% and 60%. Fourth, obvious changes took place to the quality of population. By setting up "Shanyao Class" for centralized education in the towns and counties, 1698 Shanyao students in the county received free school education. At present, among the Shanyao people in the county, 23 are university students, 36 are senior middle school students, 409 are junior middle school students and 1315 are primary school students. Fifths, the infrastructure has been improved significantly. Erected drinking water pipelines of 125 kilometers and built 783 small cellars to solve the drinking water problems of 5216 people; completed the construction of gravel roads and village roads of 134.2 km; rebuilt rural roads of 45.2 km, hardened village roads of 81,200 square meters, benefiting 6,504 Shanyao people; completed the affordable housing building or dilapidated house renovation of 97,440 square meters for 1624 Shanyao households, effectively alleviating the housing difficulty of the Shanyao masses; erected wire rods of 140 km, completed the rural grid upgrading projects of 31 villager teams, and the power price dropped from 2.5 yuan / kWh to 0.43 yuan / kWh, achieving same power price for urban and rural areas. Sixth, significant progress was made in social undertakings. Built two Class-II nursing homes of 1340 square meters and included 8394 eligible Shanyao people into the minimum living security system. The individual insurance premium for the new rural cooperative medical care and medical insurance for urban resident was paid by the government, and the rural minimum living security system achieved full coverage of eligible people. Meanwhile, it set up a number of village clinics and achieved the goal of one clinic and one rural doctor for each project village. Shanyao people's participation rate of the new rural cooperative medical system reached 100%.

    7Pilot project of poverty alleviation and development and integrated control of Kaschin-Beck disease (KBD)

    1Overall situation

    Since 2008, in accordance with the planning, nearly 5.5 billion yuan has been put in the pilot work (of which: 1.67 billion yuan was central financial anti-poverty funds, 800 million yuan was relocation funds from the National Development and Reform Commission, 748 million yuan from the provincial government, more than one billion yuan was integrated funds of transportation, water conservancy, land, agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry industry, and nearly 2 billion yuan was labor contribution of the local masses) of comprehensive control of poverty and KBD. Through the construction of a number of projects, including "ex-situ education, ex-situ relocation, food replacing, drinking water safety, social security, resettlement of immigrants, structural adjustment, health care and key scientific and technical problem tackling", the pilot work achieved the desired objectives.

    Ex-situ education project: A total of 324 million yuan was put in; completed 94 ex-situ education projects in 11 counties, newly built and rebuilt school buildings of 160,000 square meters; and moved 26400 children above five years of age in the endemic area to the boarding schools of non-endemic areas, effectively blocking disease cause chain and controlling the occurrence of new cases.

    Ex-situ relocation project: A total of 2.2 billion yuan was invested for this program; newly built rural houses of 1.53 million square meters and completed ex-situ relocation of 17136 households of 293 villages in ten counties of the endemic area.

    Food replacing project: A total of 349 million yuan was put in for this program. From 2007 to 2011, 75.69 million kg of rice was provided for 144,600 people in the endemic area (including 26400 school-age children in the endemic area).

    Drinking water safety project: A total of 133 million yuan was invested for this program. Implemented water supply projects and water-saving irrigation projects in the pasturing area, completed the construction of 399 drinking water projects in the villages of the endemic area, and implemented 513 water supply projects, solving the drinking water problem of 126,000 poor people in the endemic area.

    Social security project: A total of 227 million yuan was put in for this program. Included 38,040 patients with grade I and II KBD into the rural minimum living security system; set up 20 centers for centralized support of patients with grade III KBD, covering 3144 patients; included 41184 KBD patients into the rural medical assistance and subsidized them to participate in the new rural cooperative medical system.

    Resettlement of immigrants: A total of 1.364 billion yuan (including 453 million yuan raised by the masses) was invested for this program. Implemented entire village advancement in 604 impoverished villages, newly built houses of 498100 square meters, completed house renovation of 530,600 square meters and the "five renovation and three construction" project for 55,600 households, built village roads of 1984 km, newly set up 315 village activity rooms and built villager activity centers of 45,900 square meters. As a result, the infrastructure, living environment and production and living conditions of impoverished villages were improved.

    Structural adjustment project: A total of 843 million yuan was put in for this program (including 395 million yuan raised by the masses). Set up quality vegetable, featured fruit, plateau potato and quality barley industry base of 279,400 mu, set up 38 planting bases, planted 2.62 million bags of edible mushrooms at medium and low temperature; built authentic Chinese herbal medicine bases of 50,400 mu; purchased 60600 heads of livestock, introduced 958 improved mate animals, newly built covered pens of 813,800 square meters, 959 improvement stations and 69 farming bases; and completed artificial grass planting of 73,400 mu, laying a foundation for the development of poverty relief industry.

    Health care projects: A total of 112 million yuan was invested for this program. Built 58 KBD monitoring stations, and established and improved the national advanced KBD monitoring system, providing technical guarantee for timely discovery of KBD causes.

    Key scientific and technical problem tackling: A total of 30 million yuan was put in for this program. Set up the polygenic multifactorial etiology mode and standardized the intervention for early diagnosis, medicine and surgical nursing and Chinese and Western treatment programs. The "Study of KBD integrated control", a key project of the "11th Five-Year Plan" program supported by National Science and Technology Issues passed the acceptance examination.

    2Effectiveness of the pilot projects

    First, effectively blocked the transmission of the disease. 100% of the 58 monitoring points in Aba Prefecture reached the control standards, 86.21% of the villages eliminate the disease, 41200 KBD patients received effective treatment, especially the ex-situ education project reduced the new cases of children (positive rate of clinical detection) to 0, and more than twenty thousand children in the endemic area thoroughly got rid of the KBD threat.

    Second, per capita income of farmers and herdsmen doubled. In 2011, the per capita income of farmers and herdsmen in Aba reached 4663 yuan, doubled the figure in 2007. From 2008 to 2011, the number of poverty-stricken people declined from 344,000 to 209,000, with an average annual decrease of nearly 45,000, and the incidence of poverty dropped from 49.6% to 29.8%. The poverty reduction in the pilot area achieved remarkable results.

    Third, the production and living conditions of impoverished villages have been greatly improved. Nearly 3.7 billion yuan has been successively invested in the construction of housing and other infrastructure projects. Completed the ex-situ relocation of 294 villages in the endemic area, the entire village advancement of 604 impoverished villages and a large number of water, electricity, road, gas and housing projects, greatly improving the production and living conditions of the masses in the endemic area. Especially in the villages of endemic area covered by the ex-situ relocation program, great changes have taken place.

    Fourth, promoted national unity and social stability. Through the implementation of the pilot projects, people really felt the party and government's concern, got the benefits, saw the hope, increased confidence to overcome the disease and shake off poverty, and consciously devoted into the work of opposing separatism and safeguarding stability. In the project construction process, grassroots organizations fully relied on the masses, mobilized the masses to get involved in the project implementation, and further enhanced their cohesion, solidarity and combat power. As a result, a good situation of national unity and social stability has been further set up.

    3Consolidation and improvement

    In September 2012, LGOP entrusted a third party to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the pilot work, and the assessment report gave a high evaluation on the effectiveness of the work. On this basis, LGOP, the Ministry of Finance and Sichuan Provincial Government held in Aba the pilot work summary meeting from September 20 to 21, and determined to further consolidate and improve the pilot work in three years from 2013 to 2015.

    First, help 379 villages in the endemic area initially form the scaled, standardized, industrialization development pattern, significantly enhance their self-development capacity, steadily increase the income of the poor, significantly improve the production and living conditions, and achieve the successful transition of poverty alleviation pattern from "blood transfusion" to "blood making" mode.

    Second, in the period when the industry is in its infancy and the masses in the endemic area cannot achieve food self-sufficiency, taking the period from 2013 to 2015 as a transition stage, we should continue to implement the food replacing project for 152,133 people (including 25,133 students covered by ex-situ education) in the villages of the endemic area.

    Third, complete the public facility construction, disaster prevention and control facility construction and capacity building projects for 379 villages in the endemic area to comprehensively enhance the public service level, disaster resistance and reduction capabilities and quality of the villagers, and improve the quality of rural drinking water.

    Fourth, implement classified centralized support and provide rural subsistence allowances, medical assistance and new rural cooperative medical care subsidies for 40,327 KBD patients to guarantee their quality of life and medical treatment for a long time.

    Fifth, achieve long-term ex-situ education of existing 25,133 school-age children in the compulsory education period (including pre-school students above five years of age) and a retention rate of 100%..

    Sixth, control the average positive rate of X-ray detection of the children in the villages of the endemic area below 1% and comprehensively control new cases of KBD patients.

    (Development and Guidance Department, LGOP)

    Training of cadres in poor areas

    In 2012, the trainings of party and government leaders as well as poverty relief cadres in poor areas were mainly on the government guideline and policies concerning "three rural issues", poverty alleviation and development, main work for anti-poverty work in the new era and regional development as well. In the whole year, a total of 22 trainings were  held for 2300 cadres of various levels in impoverished areas.

    I.  New training pattern

    Carry out research on the needs. On the one hand, analyzed the feedback of trainees and, on the other hand, strengthened the preliminary research of the needs for training, made clear what the participants are most concerned about, and made targeted arrangements of training contents to achieve the combination of organization requirements, job and personal needs.

    Select the right training contents. Strengthen field visit point screening and study, focusing on case study and summary. In the survey, organize relevant persons of local government departments, poverty reduction households and trainees to attend seminars; combined with the survey content, invite relevant experts to conduct theoretical analysis, and combine training contents with the trainees to gradually achieve modularized, classified, scientific curriculum setting.

    Make innovations to training methods. Through "mutual-teaching between mayors", carried out trainings of county-level party and government leaders, invited the county party secretaries with a high level of theory and rich practical experience to give lectures, and increased the intensity of case study.

    Improve the effect of assessment. On the basis of issuing evaluation questionnaire and holding summary meetings, invite the directors of some provincial training centers to make assessment, and organize the directors of some provincial poverty alleviation offices to participate in the whole process of the training, conduct observation and evaluation. After the training, make assessment on the curriculum setting and training effects.

    II. Training system building

    (I) Teacher team construction for trainings on poverty alleviation. Attached importance to the improvement of quality of teachers in poverty alleviation system, strengthened exchange and mutual-learning between the poverty alleviation training agencies of various provinces to achieve common improvement and resources sharing. Put emphasis on the use of resources outside poverty alleviation system to contact and cooperate with party schools at all levels, state administration institutes, colleges and research institutes to give play to their strengths in theoretical research and teaching quality.

    (II) Poverty alleviation training course system building. Initially established the poverty alleviation training course system, including basic theory, core theory, international experience, domestic experience and related ancillary content. In accordance with the requirements of the Poverty alleviation training course system, prepared a number of high-quality basic theoretical textbooks and collected and finished some textbook cases.

    (III ) Improving training methods. Used lecturing, research, case study, simulation-based and experiential training methods to improve training effectiveness and quality; established the training assessment system meeting the needs of anti-poverty work; conducted teaching assessment after training to check the teaching effect and evaluate the teaching quality of tutors. After a certain period of time after the training, conduct a follow-up investigation to learn the impact of the training on actual work.

    Department of Policy and Regulation of LGOP

    Disaster response in poor areas

    1Review of the compilation of the “Records of Wenchuan Earthquake Relief of LGOP”

    According to the requirements of timely preparation of the "Records of Wenchuan Earthquake Relief of LGOP" (hereinafter referred to as the "Records") after the compilation of the "Records of Wenchuan Earthquake Relief · Records of Post-disaster Reconstruction" put forward by the executive meeting of LGOP held on July 27, 2011, on September 28, 2011, the compilation of the "Records" was officially launched. After one year of efforts, the compilation studio successfully completed the compilation of the "Records". As the first Records independently compiled by LGOP, the "Records" fully presents the outstanding contributions made by poverty alleviation departments in Wenchuan earthquake relief.

    1Compilation process of the Records

    The compilation of the Records is divided into five stages:

    1st Stage: Data collection and collation. After the first plenary session of the Records Compilation Studio on September 28, 2011, the compilation studio began to collect relevant data on Wenchuan Earthquake relief and the post-disaster reconstruction. As the Records increased the chapter of "Advanced Models", after the meeting, the compilation studio immediately issued the "Circular Concerning the Information on Advanced Models Needed by the Compilation of the 'Records of Wenchuan Earthquake Relief of LGOP'" (Guo Kai Ban Si Han No. [2011]125) to the poverty alleviation offices (bureaus) of Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi, requiring relevant materials from the three provinces. As of the end of November 2011, the data collection work had been basically completed.

    2nd Stage: Drafting and revising. From December 2011 to the end of May 2012, in accordance with the division of labor for Records compilation, while doing their own work, all the compilers sacrificed holidays and spare time to concentrate on writing the first draft. At the end of February 2012, they initially completed the first draft of 350,000 words. After that, the compilation studio successively organized all the compilers to review and revise the records chapter by chapter, section by section and word for word, and check leaks for proofreading. After the revisal, at the end of May, the Records content has been reduced from 350,000 words to more than 200,000 words (4 parts, 10 chapters, 27 sessions).

    3rd Stage: Draft polishing. From June to September 2012, the compilation studio submitted the revised draft to relevant leaders, experts and the records compilation advisors for polishing, and the director of the compilation studio finally summarized the opinions for revisal and formed the draft for comments.

    4th Stage: Asking for comments. From October to December 2012, the draft for comments was submitted to relevant departments, party committees and affiliated institutions of LGOP as well as four mass organizations under the supervision of LGOP for comments and suggestions. The relevant units put forward 44 amendments in three categories. After careful screening and verification, under the principle of accepting suggestions as many as possible, the compilation studio adopted 36 amendments and formed the records manuscript.

    5th Stage: Printing for publication. At the end of 2012, the compilation studio submitted the "Records of Wenchuan Earthquake Relief of LGOP (draft for approval)" approved by the executive meeting of LGOP to Chinese Workers Press and is expected to be published in the first half of 2013.

    2Range, structure and content of the "Records". The areas covered by the "Records of Wenchuan Earthquake Relief of LGOP" are mainly the hardest and heavily hit areas (51 counties in total) identified by the "Circular Concerning the Announcement of Assessment Results of Disaster Areas of Wenchuan Earthquake Issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Land and Resources and China Earthquake Administration" (Min Fa No. [2008]105). The scope of the two chapters –"Earthquake Relief" and "Advanced Models" is not restricted as above.

    The Records is divided into inscription, preface, legend, overview, events, four special records, appendix, afterword and photos. The chapter of Events mainly records major events of LGOP in organizing and leading the earthquake relief and post-disaster reconstruction. The four special records are divided into 10 chapters and 27 sessions, respectively objectively describing the disaster situations of impoverished areas, earthquake relief and post-disaster reconstruction of poor villages as well as the advanced models of poverty alleviation departments in the earthquake relief and post-disaster reconstruction. Appendix I is a collection of the important speeches by LGOP leaders in guiding the earthquake relief and post-disaster reconstruction work of poverty alleviation departments; Appendix II is a collection of main policy documents issued by LGOP in the process of earthquake relief and post-disaster reconstruction; the photos vividly and intuitively reflect how LGOP leaders guided the earthquake relief and post-disaster reconstruction of poor villages.

    2Completed the analysis report on disasters in impoverished areas in 2012. Carried out 2011-2012 field survey on the disaster situations of impoverished areas nationwide and, through vertical and horizontal disaster information collection and analysis, formulated the "Analysis report on disasters in impoverished areas in 2012", which provided an important reference for the allocation of central financial anti-poverty funds kept in reserve and a basis for effective disaster response in future.

    3Conducted mid-term assessment of the post-disaster restoration and reconstruction in Yushu of Qinghai and Zhouqu of Gansu. From late September to late October, the relevant experts were organized to conduct research and mid-term assessment on the post-disaster restoration and reconstruction in Yushu of Qinghai and Zhouqu of Gansu, and completed the mid-term evaluation report.

    Development and Guidance Department, LGOP

     

    Convergence of the two systems

    In accordance with the spirit of the "Opinions on the Expansion of Pilot Areas for the Effective Convergence of the Rural Minimum Living Security System and the Pro-poor Policies" forwarded by LGOP to poverty alleviation offices and other related departments, local governments actively promoted the pilot work of the effective convergence of the two systems and carried out a new round of poverty identification through one-time identification and identification by stage and by batch.

    (Department of Policy and Regulation of LGOP)

    Anti-poverty funds and the management of anti-poverty funds

    In 2012, the central and provincial governments further increased the investment of financial anti-poverty funds, taking the contiguous poor areas as the main battlefield for poverty reduction, highlighted the development of competitive featured industries, made innovations to the supportive mechanism for anti-poverty funds to be delivered to specific households and standardized the use and management of poverty relief funds to improve the efficiency.

    Stable growth of financial anti-poverty funds: In 2012, the central and provincial anti-poverty funds amounted to 49.66 billion yuan, 12.36 billion Yuan more than that of the previous year, up 33.1%; of which: 33.2 billion yuan was from the central government, with an increase of 6 billion yuan more, up 22.1%; 16.45 billion yuan was from provincial government, with an increase of 6.36 billion yuan, up 62.4%. In addition, the government actively expanded sources of anti-poverty funds and strived for central special lottery funds of 900 million yuan.

    Concentrated investment to highlight key areas: In accordance with the requirements of the New “Outline”, the government made overall arrangements for the use of various anti-poverty funds according to the planning for poverty alleviation and development, giving priority to key areas, key work and key objects of poverty reduction.

    1As for the investment areas, the anti-poverty funds were mainly issued to national contiguous poor areas with special difficulties, key counties and poor villages, and the central financial anti-poverty funds were mainly used for contiguous poor areas. According to the submitted data of various provinces, in 2012, 33.2 billion yuan of financial anti-poverty funds was issued to contiguous poor areas and key counties by the central and provincial governments, accounting for 68.4% of the total; 26.8 million yuan of the central financial anti-poverty funds was invested in the contiguous poor counties and key counties, accounting for 82% of the total; and the increased funds used for contiguous poor areas accounted for 81.7% of the total increased amount (based on 2010 figures).

    2As for the investment direction, the financial anti-poverty funds were mainly used to develop competitive featured industries and improve the basic production and living conditions of the poor. In accordance with the requirements of the New “Outline”, local governments increased efforts on the development of competitive featured industries and further adjusted the investment structure. In 2012, 21.23 billion yuan of funds from central and provincial government was directly used to promote the development of industry, accounting for 50% of the total investment; 16.34 billion yuan was used for infrastructure construction, including farmland, water conservancy, village roads, drinking water and biogas projects, dangerous house renovation projects, etc., accounting for 38.3% of the total. 15.97 billion yuan and 11.97 billion yuan of central financial anti-poverty funds were respectively put in for the above two fields, accounting for 51% and 38.3% of the total investment of the central government respectively.

    3. As for the key work supported by the funds, we continued to conduct entire village advancement of impoverished villages, capacity building, industrialization poverty reduction and immigration-based poverty alleviation, and implemented various pilot projects of poverty reduction. The anti-poverty funds were mainly used to develop competitive featured industries, enhance the self-development capacity of the poor and promote the key anti-poverty work. In 2012, 26.71 billion yuan was used in entire village advancement, Rain Plan and relocation-based poverty reduction, accounting for 64.4% of the total; and 9.65 billion yuan was used for pilot work of technology poverty reduction, mutual funds, contiguous development, border poverty alleviation and post-disaster reconstruction and restoration, accounting for 20.7% of the total.

    4Increased efforts on providing anti-poverty funds for specific households and made innovations to the support mechanism. To meet the requirements of the “Outline”, local governments made innovations to the mechanism for anti-poverty funds to be delivered to impoverished households, gradually increased direct support for specific households in various forms, made full use of the results of the effective convergence of pro-poor policies and the rural minimum living security system, established and improved the poverty reduction object identification mechanism and implemented the household poverty reduction measures to ensure the objects of poverty reduction obtain effective, direct support.

    Innovate mechanisms to improve capital efficiency. To maximize the effect of financial anti-poverty funds, the government made positive exploration on the innovation of the mechanism for the use of anti-poverty funds.

    1Implemented pilot projects of mutual funds for poor villages and established the long-term mechanism for the use of financial anti-poverty funds. According to incomplete statistics, as of the end of 2012, the pilot projects of mutual funds had been implemented in 17900 poor villages of 1286 counties in 28 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) across the country. A total of 4.498 billion yuan of mutual funds was issued, of which 934 billion yuan was anti-poverty fund from the central government, 2.389 billion yuan was provincial anti-poverty funds and 955 million yuan was farmers’ mutual funds and other funds. A total of 1.6668 million rural households participated in the mutual funds, accounting for 27.8% of the total rural households in the pilot villages, of which 909,900 were poor households, accounting for 54.6% of the total poor; a total of 7.63 billion yuan of loans was issued, of which 4.256 billion yuan was issued to the poor, accounting for 55.7% of the total; a total of 1.6 million people obtained loans, of which 915,000 were poor farmers, accounting for 57.3% of the total. In order to further standardize the operating procedures, LGOP and the Ministry of Finance jointly issued the "Circular on the Implementation of Pilot Projects of Mutual Funds for Poor Villages in 2012" and completed the "Study of Poverty Reduction Effect of Mutual Funds of Poor Villages" and the "Performance Evaluation and Study of the Operating Rules of the Pilot Projects of Mutual Funds". On the whole, the pilot work has entered the stage of consolidation and improvement from the stage of coverage expansion with fixed points, the operation of mutual funds is becoming increasingly standardized, the management is more orderly, the risk awareness has been enhanced and the income of farmers has increased significantly. The mutual funds played a positive role in facilitating the loan obtaining of the impoverished regions, especially poor farmers.

    2Implemented entire village advancement and contiguous development based on local conditions and built the resource integration platform. Entire village advancement is an important way and carrier for new rural construction in poor areas. In accordance with the requirements of state for entire village advancement during the “12th Five-Year Plan” period, local governments increased efforts on resource integration through entire village advancement. According to incomplete statistics, in 2012, the ratio between integrated funds and financial anti-poverty funds was 2:1 and averagely 3.34 million yuan was invested for each village. From 2010 to 2012, contiguous development was implemented based on entire village advancement and 10-12 million yuan of financial anti-poverty funds was put in for each pilot county. Through integration of funds and policy and mechanism innovation, it attracted the agriculture-related funds of relevant departments to be invested in industrial development and supporting projects, which promoted the economic development of poverty-stricken areas and the stable income growth of poor rural households. The scale advantages of contiguous development established a platform for resource integration. In some places, the ratio of fund integration reached 1:5-1:8, which enhanced the level of investment in poverty alleviation.

    3Financial discount encouraged the issuance of anti-poverty loans and enhanced the multiplier effect of anti-poverty funds. 2012 is the fifth year for comprehensive reform of the management system for anti-poverty subsidized loans. Since the reform, the scale of anti-poverty discount loans has been significantly expanded, the proportion of the households receiving anti-poverty funds has been significantly enhanced and significant progress has been made in promoting the diversification of financial institutions and mobilizing the initiatives of local governments. In 2012, the central and local governments issued a total of discount funds of 1.7 billion yuan, guided the issuance of 53.8 billion yuan of loans, 3.3 times that of 2008, the initial stage of the reform. The household loans and project loans were respectively 24.16 billion yuan and 29.64 billion yuan.

    Strengthen supervision on the management of anti-poverty funds. Through various measures, it strived to establish a funding project follow-up and monitoring system featured prevention in advance, standardization in process and review after project implementation. Through combining sector supervision with the supervision by the masses and public opinion, it ensured the effective, safe and clean operation of anti-poverty fund projects.

    1Strengthened system building. In accordance with the requirements of the "Measures for the Management of Financial Anti-poverty Funds” (Cai Nong [2011] No. 412), local governments developed specific measures to strengthen the management of anti-poverty funds. They strengthened the construction of a clean government, conscientiously carried out clean governance risk prevention and control work, improved the control flow and improved the mechanisms for clean governance risk control of the financial anti-poverty funds.

    2. Played a role of overall planning. Respect the order of nature and the laws of the market, do a good job of research, seek truth from facts, and develop and improve poverty reduction program based on actual situations. Local governments are required to arrange the project funds in strict accordance with the regional development and poverty alleviation planning of 14 contiguous poor areas including Liupanshan Area and the "12th Five-Year Plan" for poverty reduction by entire village advancement to avoid and prevent irregularities and reduce waste.

    3. Open operation to expand supervision. Further implement poverty alleviation fund announcement and publicity system. All poverty-relief projects of various provinces must be announced in local daily newspaper and other major media to strengthen publicity and expand the content and scope of the announcement, ensuring open, fair, equitable and standardized use of relevant funds and project arrangements as well as the open operation of anti-poverty funds.

     4Strengthened performance evaluation. LGOP and the Ministry of Finance continued to conduct performance evaluation on the use and management of 2011 anti-poverty funds of various provinces, and strengthened the feedback and use of performance evaluation results. Through the evaluation, local governments further increased capital investment, regulated the use of anti-poverty funds, strengthened the fund management system building and implementation, accelerated the allocation of anti-poverty funds and the implementation of relevant projects, and made positive progress in increasing direct support for specific households, accelerating the contiguous development of featured industries and guiding resources integration of contiguous areas. In accordance with the change in the poverty alleviation and development situation, we revised and improved the fund performance evaluation indicators and measures.

    5Strengthened supervision and inspection. Based on public participation, it combined audit and supervision closely with social supervision and mass supervision and gave full play to the role of financial, audit, discipline inspection and supervision sectors. From November 2011 to April 2012, the National Audit Office of the People's Republic of China carried out audit and investigation on the allocation, use and management of the central financial anti-poverty funds for local areas. Combined with the feedback of the National Audit Office of the People's Republic of China, we put forward our opinions on the further improvement and strengthening of the allocation, use and supervision of financial anti-poverty funds. The audit played a positive role in accelerating the poverty-relief fund system building and strengthening the consciousness of supervision.

    Generally speaking, the poverty-relief funds management system has been continuously improved, the use of anti-poverty funds has been further standardized and the regulatory measures have been constantly intensified. According to the main and spot checks on the use of anti-poverty funds conducted by the National Audit Office, State Council Office for Rectifying and the Supervision Office of the Ministry of Finance, the management of the anti-poverty funds is relatively good on the whole and has played an important role in improving the production and living conditions of impoverished regions, increasing the income of the poor and enhancing the development capacity.

     (Department of Planning and Finance, LGOP)

    IIISpecial Poverty Alleviation - research and advocacy

    Research on poverty alleviation

    I. Organized studies on new socialist countryside construction in poor areas and key issues on promoting urbanization. According to the arrangements on the research of key issues made by the central government, LGOP established the research group with Fan Xiaojian as the head and formulated the research program and outline on how to accelerate the new socialist countryside construction in poor areas and steadily promote urbanization. Combining theory with practice and combining data analysis with typical survey, making use of the statistical data on rural areas and 592 key counties for national poverty alleviation and development (hereinafter referred to as key counties) provided by National Bureau of Statistics of China, the research group carried out relevant analysis and assessment work. LGOP leaders respectively headed a research group to carry out field survey in 7 provinces and autonomous regions, namely Shanxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Shaanxi and Guizhou; entrusted relevant provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities to carry out special research and put forward specific policy recommendations; held seminars for relevant experts and party and government leaders at all levels in poor areas to seek opinions of various parties and, on this basis, put forward the general ideas and policy recommendations for accelerating the regional development of impoverished areas, especially contiguous poor areas in the process of promoting new rural construction and urbanization, aiming to equitably benefit the poor.

    II. Carried out research activities among ten thousand households in one thousand villages. To further implement the spirit of the Central Work Conference on Poverty Alleviation and Development, make clear the basic situation of impoverished villages and poor households living below the new poverty line in various regions, deeply understand the implementation situation and effects of the agriculture-supporting and farmer-benefiting policies in impoverished areas and look for effective ways for household poverty reduction to ensure the timely realization of the goal of "two no-worry and three guarantees", LGOP organized the relevant poverty alleviation departments to carry out research activities among ten thousand households in one thousand villages. Through questionnaire and field survey, LGOP required the central and western regions to determine the number of impoverished villages according to the National "12th Five-Year Plan" for entire village advancement and select 30 – 40 villages in each province in the eastern regions for survey. At least ten objects of poverty reduction should be selected from each village to fill out the forms and questionnaires for household survey.

    Meanwhile, in order to strengthen the development of poverty alleviation cadres, comprehensively improve the quality of young cadres of poverty alleviation departments, deepen our understanding of the basic national conditions, enhance our feelings with the poor and develop the ability for investigation and research, the Department of Policy and Regulation of LGOP and the Party committee of relevant organs and institutions jointly organized more than 50 comrades from relevant institutions and organs affiliated to LGOP to divide into ten research groups to carry out a one-week field survey in nine contiguous poor areas. After the field survey, the research groups each prepared a research report and every comrade wrote an article to talk about their gainings. Director Fan Xiaojian personally listened to the report of each research group.

    III. Organized special research on relevant work. From September to October 2012, under the leadership of the Department of Policy and Regulation of LGOP, Department of Administration and Personnel Affairs of LGOP, Foreign Capital Project Management Center of LGOP and Cadres Training Centre for Poverty-Stricken Areas of China organized relevant persons to carry out research on three major issues on anti-poverty work (migrant workers’ employment in impoverished areas, pilot reform of the Rain Plan implementation mode and the policies on affordable housing for objects of poverty reduction). Divided into two groups, the researchers carried out field survey in Henan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou and Xinjiang, preliminary found out the actual situation, made clear the work ideas, discovered relevant problems and put forward suggestions on the problem solving.

    (Department of Policy and Regulation of LGOP)

     

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