Home>>China
Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Sunday, January 05, 2003

SW China Province Reports Sharp Drop in Poor Population

Thanks to poverty elimination projects, the poverty-stricken rural population in southwest China's Guizhou Province has dropped to less than 3 million from 10 million a decade ago.


PRINT DISCUSSION CHINESE SEND TO FRIEND


Thanks to poverty elimination projects, the poverty-stricken rural population in southwest China's Guizhou Province has dropped to less than 3 million from 10 million a decade ago.

In 2002 alone, 300,000 farmers who did not have enough food and clothing previously, become well-fed.

The poor population in the province's rural areas was 2.77 million by the end of 2002, more than one-tenth of the national total, according Liu Sufen, deputy director of the province's agriculture office.

Liu called it still an arduous task to eliminate the remaining poverty in the next eight years.

Guizhou is an agricultural province, with karst landforms accounting for 97 percent of its total land space. As of 1993, itspoor people accounted for 34.4 percent of the province's total, topping 10 million.

China launched an eight-year nationwide program in 1994 to reduce poverty for 70 million of its poverty-stricken population.

With the help of the central government, Guizhou poured more than 9.3 billion yuan (1.12 billion US dollars) into a series of poverty elimination projects including highway construction, waterand electricity supply and telecommunications projects during thisperiod. These projects benefited the poor in 48 counties of Guizhou Province.

As a result of a series of poverty elimination projects, China's poverty-stricken population has dropped to less than 30 million today from 250 million in 1979.


Questions?Comments? Click here
    Advanced






Nearly 740,000 Yunnan People Escape Poverty 

CPPCC Chairman Calls for More Care for the Poor

Beijing Initiates Poverty Relief Campaign





 


Iraq Vows Fight Against US in Different Way from 1991 Gulf War ( 5 Messages)

German Maglev Expert: World's Fastest Train Puts China in the Spotlight ( 4 Messages)

Pyongyang Orders IAEA Inspectors to Leave ( 31 Messages)

China Launches 'Shenzhou IV' Unmanned Spacecraft ( 31 Messages)

China Set Trade Growth Goal at 7 Percent in 2003 ( 23 Messages)



Copyright by People's Daily Online, all rights reserved