Numbers drop but still 100m in poverty
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The number of rural poor in China dropped by nearly 67 million from 2010 to 2012, according to a State Council report yesterday.
But by the end of 2012, there were nearly 100 million rural residents still living in poverty, the report said.
Liu Yongfu, director of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, delivered the report to lawmakers at a bimonthly session of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress.
Per capita annual net income in key poverty counties increased from 3,273 yuan (US$537) to 4,602 yuan in the 2010 to 2012 period, an annual growth of 18.6 percent.
Infrastructure in these areas has constantly improved, said the report, and rural education has moved forward. At the end of 2012, 97 percent of children aged 7-15 had attended school.
In 2011, the central government put 227.2 billion yuan into the poverty relief fund, up 40.4 percent from the previous year. In 2012, the figure reached 299.6 billion yuan, up 31.9 percent year on year.
Challenges still exist. Many children in remote areas walk two to three hours a day to school and medical expenses in poor counties are 60 percent of the average rural level.
Efforts will be made to make better use of funds and improve supervision of spending, the report said.
Other poverty-relief measures include promoting employment, building roads and developing rural tourism.
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