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29.9 Billion Yuan for Aiding the Poor This Year

As learned from the national Tele-meeting on the development of aiding the poor recently held in Beijing a total investment of RMB 29.9 billion yuan will be put aside for developing the work of aiding the poor, an increase of RMB 0.8 billion yuan.


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As learned from the national Tele-meeting on the development of aiding the poor recently held in Beijing a total investment of RMB 29.9 billion yuan will be put aside for developing the work of aiding the poor, an increase of RMB 0.8 billion yuan. Meanwhile the state will put into practice the plan of aiding the poor on the bases of villages, carry the policy down to every village and every household. This year will see 53,000 key poverty-stricken villages put on the high agenda of the work.

As introduced, from 1998 - 2002, the accumulated funds put in by the state for aiding the poor were up to RMB 124.5 billion yuan, making the poverty-stricken population to reduce from 49.62 million heads to 28.20 million. It is a reduction from 5.4 percent to about 3 percent of the total rural population, thereby guaranteeing the on-time fulfillment of the state plan for aiding the poor.

At present, there are still 28.20 million poverty-stricken people in the country whose food and clothing need to be solved. Among them, 7 million are now living in areas barely short of the basic living conditions.

Aside from the above, there are still some 58.25 million heads of poor and low-income people. Though the problem of food and clothing for them has been solved yet their life is not quite stable. The main task for aiding the poor and its development in the future is to solve as quick as possible the food and clothing problem for 30 million poverty-ridden people.

In the meanwhile it is to help those whose basic problem of food and clothing has been solved but not quite stable to increase their income, improve their production and living conditions in order to realize a steady and stable shaking-off the fetter of poverty in their life.

The key poverty-ridden counties and villages as decided by the state and localities cover a respective 60 percent and 80 percent of the poverty-stricken population in the country. So the crucial measures to be taken in handling well the work for aiding the poor is to carry out the aiding-poor-plan based on villages. The aiding-the-poor must be done from village to village and from household to household with the funds allotted to village and items to go to families, thereby making every poor household to enjoy the benefit of it.

To solve the problem of poverty depends primarily on development, said Lu Feiji, Deputy Team Leader of the State for Aiding the Poor and Development Plan under the State Council and Director of the Office. To do well the work of aiding the poor it must be made at the core to develop economy and increase income in the new period. The poverty-ridden areas have to be made market-orientated in stepping up the readjustment of industry structure, bring into play the superiority of unique natural conditions with less pollution. In line with the requirement of fine quality, high yield and high efficiency, ecological and for safety agriculture it is to press ahead for the development of an industrialized agriculture.

By People's Daily Online


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