Millions lifted out of poverty due to government’s efforts
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Until two years ago, Xie Yanbao from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region supported his family by growing sugarcane and corn.
In 2014, he got a loan of 80,000 yuan (US$12,300) from the local poverty relief project and started to raise chickens. He is now one of the richest men in his village.
Xie is one of 52 million people from rural areas who have benefited from the government’s poverty relief efforts in the past three years.
In the past three decades, more than 600 million people have been lifted out of poverty, about 70 percent of the total global achievement. China became the first developing country to meet the millennium development target.
Yet the battle against poverty is unlikely to end soon.
For the next five years, the government has named poverty reduction one of its top priorities, vowing to help its remaining 70 million poor people, who live below the poverty line of 2,300 yuan in annual income, shake off poverty and enjoy essential social services by 2020.
“To win the poverty relief battle is the bottom line for building a moderately prosperous society,” said Liu Yongfu, head of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development.
The country’s program to relocate people living in the poorest regions has given them better housing, health care, education and employment.
During the process, the government coordinated with different departments to carry out relief plans. The Finance Ministry increased fiscal expenditure, the Ministry of Water Resources ensured safe drinking water and the Ministry of Land and Resources plans land use.
Financial institutions, enterprises, NGOs and private investments were also mobilized to join the long-lasting battle against poverty.
Companies like Tencent and Alibaba have triggered an Internet revolution in remote villages and are helping peasants try their luck in booming e-commerce by selling their agricultural products to online shoppers nationwide.
Meanwhile, officials at all levels have been told to meet their poverty alleviation targets or face sanctions, the first time they have been given such obligations.
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