Xi urges greater efforts in fight against poverty
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December 31, 2012, Monday
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping urged local authorities to step up the fight against poverty during a weekend visit to villages in north China's remote Fuping County.
Braving temperatures of around minus 10 degrees Celsius, the Party chief reached Fuping, a county set deep in the Taihang Mountains of Hebei Province, on Saturday afternoon.
Yesterday morning, Xi visited farmers' homes in the villages of Luotuowan and Gujiatai in Longquanguan Township to see for himself how people lived their lives there.
During chats with several of the villagers, Xi paid special attention to the difficulties they experienced in their daily lives, such as problems concerning income, food, education and medical care.
He also visited village clinics and shops and talked with village officials.
Xi said the local Party and government authorities should place more emphasis on helping people out of poverty, especially people living in impoverished regions such as Fuping.
He said this should be done by adjusting policies to conditions in a scientific manner.
Xi said that policies designed to support agriculture, rural areas and farmers and alleviate poverty must be implemented fully, and he called the embezzlement of poverty-alleviation funds an "intolerable crime."
Farmers in resources-poor Fuping, a former revolutionary base 300 kilometers from Beijing, earn an annual net income of around 2,400 yuan (US$385).
"The most arduous and heavy task facing China in completing the building of a moderately prosperous society is in the rural areas, especially the poverty-stricken regions," Xi said.
A well-off China won't come about if people in rural areas can't live a well-off life, he said.
Xi said the central authorities were highly concerned about poverty-alleviation work, and were urging all local Party and government organs to fulfill their responsibilities to bring people out of poverty quickly.
According to a report from the 18th CPC National Congress, China aims to complete the building of a moderately prosperous society by the end of 2020, with a sharp decrease in the number of poverty-stricken residents.
The report said China would take bigger steps to boost growth in old revolutionary bases and other impoverished areas.
Based on the current poverty line of 2,300 yuan in annual net income per capita, China has 128 million impoverished people in rural areas, accounting for 13.4 percent of the population in the countryside.
"We're deeply inspired by General Secretary Xi's visit," said Li Ningtai, secretary of the CPC Fuping County committee. He said the county would be speeding up its poverty-alleviation efforts.
Meanwhile, he expressed hope that more policy initiatives, regarding government allocations, and personnel training and placement, among others, would be launched to support impoverished regions like his county.
Xi expressed his own vision for change in impoverished regions during his visit. "With confidence, people can make yellow soil into gold," he said.
Braving temperatures of around minus 10 degrees Celsius, the Party chief reached Fuping, a county set deep in the Taihang Mountains of Hebei Province, on Saturday afternoon.
Yesterday morning, Xi visited farmers' homes in the villages of Luotuowan and Gujiatai in Longquanguan Township to see for himself how people lived their lives there.
During chats with several of the villagers, Xi paid special attention to the difficulties they experienced in their daily lives, such as problems concerning income, food, education and medical care.
He also visited village clinics and shops and talked with village officials.
Xi said the local Party and government authorities should place more emphasis on helping people out of poverty, especially people living in impoverished regions such as Fuping.
He said this should be done by adjusting policies to conditions in a scientific manner.
Xi said that policies designed to support agriculture, rural areas and farmers and alleviate poverty must be implemented fully, and he called the embezzlement of poverty-alleviation funds an "intolerable crime."
Farmers in resources-poor Fuping, a former revolutionary base 300 kilometers from Beijing, earn an annual net income of around 2,400 yuan (US$385).
"The most arduous and heavy task facing China in completing the building of a moderately prosperous society is in the rural areas, especially the poverty-stricken regions," Xi said.
A well-off China won't come about if people in rural areas can't live a well-off life, he said.
Xi said the central authorities were highly concerned about poverty-alleviation work, and were urging all local Party and government organs to fulfill their responsibilities to bring people out of poverty quickly.
According to a report from the 18th CPC National Congress, China aims to complete the building of a moderately prosperous society by the end of 2020, with a sharp decrease in the number of poverty-stricken residents.
The report said China would take bigger steps to boost growth in old revolutionary bases and other impoverished areas.
Based on the current poverty line of 2,300 yuan in annual net income per capita, China has 128 million impoverished people in rural areas, accounting for 13.4 percent of the population in the countryside.
"We're deeply inspired by General Secretary Xi's visit," said Li Ningtai, secretary of the CPC Fuping County committee. He said the county would be speeding up its poverty-alleviation efforts.
Meanwhile, he expressed hope that more policy initiatives, regarding government allocations, and personnel training and placement, among others, would be launched to support impoverished regions like his county.
Xi expressed his own vision for change in impoverished regions during his visit. "With confidence, people can make yellow soil into gold," he said.
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