Autonomous prefecture in SW China sees bright future in poverty alleviation
By Huan Xiang
from People’s Daily
Thanks to China’s efforts in poverty alleviation, Liangshan Yi
Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China’s Sichuan province is gradually
shaking off poverty and embracing a brighter future.
Ge Fu’neng, deputy to the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC)
well elaborated on the improved livelihood of the people there by sharing a
photo and the story behind it at a panel discussion of Sichuan province.
In the photo, residents of Huodeng village, Le’an township, Butuo
county of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture are counting money they have
earned by planting herbal medicines.
“I was born in an impoverished village of Daliang Mountain, and I
know deeply the hardships my fellow villagers are going through,” Ge said.
Thanks to the herbal medicine industry, Butuo county has lifted
1,216 impoverished households out of poverty, increasing the annual income of
the villagers to over 8,000 yuan ($1,192) from hundreds of yuan, he introduced.
Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture is one of the 14 contiguous
poverty-stricken areas of China, and also one of the major areas for the
country to carry out poverty eradication campaigns.
The poverty-stricken region, as well as the 5.3 million people from
all ethnic groups living there, are always a concern for Xi Jinping, General
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
He visited Liangshan before the Spring Festival in 2018 to inspect
poverty alleviation work, and specifically mentioned two families from Sanhe
village, Zhaojue county of Liangshan in his 2019 New Year speech.
The eyes of a deputy named Xu Ping brimmed with tears as Ge
unfolded the story. Xu is a college graduate who survived the devastating
earthquake in Sichuan. It was the government’s favorable policies that enabled
the post-95 girl to go to college.
Education is able to stop the intergenerational cycle of poverty,
and it has played a vital role in Liangshan’s poverty elimination work.
The local government opened a kindergarten for each village, helping
pre-school children learn mandarin to guarantee free communication. To date,
the enrolment rates of primary and secondary schools in 11 impoverished
counties of Liangshan have respectively reached 99.6 percent and 97 percent.
Over the past three years, the CPC Sichuan Provincial Committee made
special policies to help Liangshan, investing over 20 billion yuan of fiscal
revenue in poverty alleviation, and sending 11 work teams and over 5,700 cadres
to the region.
The current incidence of poverty of Liangshan stands at 7.1
percent, down 12.7 percentage points from 19.8 percent in 2014, according to Suga
Erbu, NPC deputy and governor of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture.
In the next two years, the prefecture would lift 317,000 people,
618 villages, and 11 counties out of poverty, Suga added.
“All impoverished counties and people will be lifted out of poverty
by 2020,” said Lin Shucheng, vice chairman of Sichuan Committee of Chinese
People’s Political Consultative Conference and Party chief of Liangshan Yi Autonomous
Prefecture.
It is introduced that the local government has rolled out multiple
measures to support poverty alleviation, such as the incentive to encourage
export of labor services, making sure that no one is left behind in poverty
reduction.
Deputy Ge Fu’neng shows a picture at a panel
discussion of the second session of the 13th National People’s Congress. (Photo
by Li Ge/People’s Daily)
Autonomous prefecture in SW China sees bright future in poverty alleviation
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