Poverty in China

Especially the "15" the last two years, the central issue for the two One document, a historic reduction of agricultural taxes and fees, and grant subsidies to grain farmers, peasants and Vietnam have jumped out of the more serious by the "Huang Zongxi Law." Last year, rural areas throughout the country does not solve the food and clothing of the people living in absolute poverty decreased by 2.9 million, down 10 percent; low-income population, a decrease of 6,400,000, down 11.4 percent, both nearly 5 years to reduce the biggest year. First half of this year, the income of rural residents have a big increase, suggesting that China's poverty reduction to accelerate the process.

As a starting point for poverty alleviation and development in China, Gansu is China's great cause of a microcosm of helping the poor. From the beginning of reform and the "three-west" development, to the "Mother Water Cellar" operations, from the mountains in recent years to emigrate to the "entire village of the" poverty, to improve infrastructure to promote the building of grassroots organizations - in Gansu to help the poor step-by-step, achieved remarkable results. Dingxi to focus on labor force training and improve the quality of the poverty-stricken population and income levels. According to the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office survey in 2004 Dingxi a total of 485,000 transfer of labor, and labor income 970 million yuan, per capita income of 2,000 yuan. Former "Bitter" Dingxi has been hard to find the missing.

China Economic Research Association suburban package Yongjiang said that the practice has shown that poverty alleviation and development work is a kind of institutional arrangement or policy choices, can not be completely to the market. The poorest groups in the market competition at a disadvantage, can not naturally get the benefits of economic growth, they might be damaged, a number of African countries, "the more help getting poorer" phenomenon is a typical example.