President Xi calls for more effort on poverty
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PRESIDENT Xi Jinping pushed for increased efforts on poverty alleviation during his tour of north China’s Hebei Province yesterday.
He stressed the importance of precision in the battle against poverty, saying that poverty alleviation should focus on targeted people and industries, and use the right tools to produce results.
Xi made the remarks during a tour of the city of Zhangjiakou, where he inspected an impoverished village, visiting and chatting with poor families, discussing how they could shake off poverty.
“Fighting poverty is the fundamental task in building an all-round moderately prosperous society,” Xi said, calling for more efforts to help the poor develop industries that could grow in a sustainable manner, set up sustainable mechanisms for poverty alleviation, and create ways for them to achieve prosperity.
Poverty relief is high on China’s 2016-2020 agenda, and the government has vowed to lift everybody out of poverty by 2020.
By the end of 2015, China still had 55.75 million people living in poverty.
Since the beginning of reform and opening-up in 1978, China’s economic boom has helped lift more than 700 million people out of poverty.
“Poverty alleviation is getting more and more difficult as it progresses to the end,” Xi said.
He stressed the importance of making sure every poor family had a program for raising incomes and that every poor person had a way of casting off poverty.
The president pointed to relocation as an important supplementary approach in fighting poverty and highlighted the role of ecological compensation, which would not only help improve the environment but also boost incomes.
Stressing the importance of education, Xi said: “Making sure children of impoverished families enjoy access to high-quality education is a fundamental solution to poverty.”
During the tour, Xi also inspected a dairy company in Zhangjiakou, where he urged for more efforts to create a globally competitive dairy industry with safe, high-quality products.
He said that the most rigorous standards, the strictest regulation, the harshest punishments and the most serious mechanisms of accountability should be adopted to ensure food safety.
Xi also listened to officials briefing on the local economy at a meeting, where he said cutting excessive production capacity in the iron and steel sector was crucial for Hebei, a major steel producing province, to improve its industrial structure and create new growth engines.
Xi called for efforts to ensure outdated production capacity was eliminated and “zombie enterprises” phased out.
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