Guiyang Poverty Alleviation Office - China’s Solution for Precise Poverty Alleviation: The Case of Guizhou

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June 18, 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping held a seminar in Guizhou with senior officials of CPC committees in a number of provinces, regions and municipalities and pointed out that in the economic development of the 13th Five-Year Plan period, the weak link of poverty alleviation must be addressed. Poverty alleviation has already entered a critical period with the most demanding tasks lying ahead.

Over five months later, from November 2728, the Conference on Poverty Alleviation of the CPC Central Committee was held, and an outcome document entitled Decisions on Winning the War on Poverty was issued at conclusion of the conference, which represents a call to action to eliminate poverty.

Guizhou is the province with the highest number and widest distribution of people living in poverty. Since it has the most severe degree of poverty of any other province, it is the main battleground for the war on poverty. During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, Guizhou province lifted 6.56 million people out of poverty. However, that means that during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, there are still more than 1 million people annually who need to be lifted above the poverty line. The pressure is still on.

The merits of a policy can be seen in the smiles of our fellow villages and its demerits will be laid bare by the tears of them.

The CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee and the Guizhou Provincial Peoples Government have therefore set inclusive poverty alleviation as one of their two strategic actions, promising to carry out smart, targeted and effective poverty alleviation and to leave no ethnic group, nor any region, behind.

The problems we face are the voice of the times. The key to winning the war on poverty is to address the problems head-on, to galvanize different stakeholders, and to create powerful synergy.

In order to eliminate poverty and tackle difficult problems, the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee and the Government united and led people of all ethnicities in an effort to achieve development and to bend over backwards to eliminate poverty.

In the golden autumn of October 2015, the Guizhou Province Poverty Alleviation Conference was held in Guiyang, which issued the Poverty Alleviation and Development 1+10 Document. On December 7, the Conference of Guizhou Province on Implementing the Outcomes of the Conference on Poverty Alleviation of the CPC Central Committee and Taking Strategic Actions to Achieve Inclusive Poverty Alleviation was organized. In the space of less than two months, two conferences on poverty alleviation were held, which showed the accelerated pace of Guizhou Provinces poverty alleviation efforts.

Chen Miner, former Secretary of the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of Guizhou Provincial Peoples Congress led by example, carried out in-depth field studies in Weining autonomous county, and chatted with the locals about their daily lives, about poverty alleviation and about development. He went deep into the grass roots, interpreting the policies of poverty alleviation to people in Changshun county, Taijing county, etc. He pointed out time and again that winning the war on poverty requires heart, mind and sweat. It is where the capabilities of officials at all levels are exhibited most vividly.