County removes itself from poverty list
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LANKAO County in central China’s Henan Province yesterday announced its withdrawal from the country’s list of impoverished counties.
It is the second county to do so since the government said last April that counties could be taken off the list if less than 2 percent of population was classified as “impoverished.”
Jinggangshan in east China’s Jiangxi Province was removed from the list late last month.
In 2014, 11.8 percent of Lankao’s population was in poverty, but that has dropped to 1.27 percent, according to an assessment by the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research.
After the results were approved by the State Council’s Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, the Henan government greenlit the county’s withdrawal.
“Today is a day to be commemorated,” Cai Songtao, Lankou’s Party secretary told a press conference. “Getting rid of poverty has been the ardent wish of Lankao residents for decades.”
In 2014, as part of efforts to foster Party-people relations, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Party’s Central Committee, paired himself with Lankao and visited it twice.
That year, Lankao County authorities made a commitment to cast off poverty in three years and achieve moderate prosperity in seven years.
To achieve success, Cai said the county government made poverty alleviation its first and primary task.
“Over the process, we’ve realized that poverty alleviation is not the main goal, but that achieving moderate prosperity matters more,” he said.
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