Poverty-stricken population of "soft targets" can not be ignored

"Poverty" is not only an economic problem, the more important political issues and social problems. During his inspection tour of poverty, therefore, some experts often use monetary and non-monetary indicators to reflect the two categories.

On monetary indicators, the reform and opening up the past 25 years, China's rural population living in absolute poverty reduced from 2.5 billion people, 26.1 million people, the incidence of poverty from 30% to 2.8%.

Sociological Research Association of China, said Lu Xueyi, in spite of our monetary indicators astonishing success, but frankly, on a soft non-monetary indicators, such as basic education, child and maternal health level, drinking water and sanitation acquisition, environmental protection, China's poverty-stricken areas and poverty still a wide gap between groups.

White-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Jin-fu experts believe that as a result of policy adjustments have not kept pace with or in place, the economic gap between the "hardening" as a pattern, and the formation of a clear social disparities. Some areas, enterprises and groups in a weak position clear, the fruits of economic development can not be to the benefit of all aspects of society, even gap phenomenon. By measuring the gap between rich and poor, "Gini coefficient", the Gini coefficient in China is already more than 0.45, reaching the income distribution gap between the "tolerable upper limit."

It is estimated that the population will be urban and rural poverty, economic restructuring, unemployment and laid-off workers, the disabled, disaster clients, such as migrant workers in a weak position of the total Canadian population, and then deduct some overlap, China is now vulnerable people about 140000000-180000000 people.

From a global perspective, there are 2.8 billion people in developing countries (more than half of its population) live in poverty. According to the current development trends, by 2015 most developing countries can not be realized in education, health, environment and other areas, most of "the Millennium Development Goals."

Bai Jin-fu said that China's "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" proposed by the scientific development concept to guide overall economic and social development, it is necessary to correctly handle the relationship between fairness and efficiency. Initial distribution focus on efficiency, the redistribution of attention to equity; in the economic life of the efficiency of the first place, and in political life and social life, the fair the first place. Thereby creating not only conducive to the development of advanced productive forces, and conducive to the common prosperity of the distribution system.

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.

October 17 for the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

December 22, 1992 the 47th United Nations General Assembly to determine the annual October 17 as "International Day for the Eradication of Poverty," is to arouse the international community's attention to the problem of poverty, promotion and removal of poverty around the world to promote the work of the mobilization of all States to take specific action to help the poor. This is February 12, 2004, an Iraqi girl begging in the streets of Baghdad passersby. Post-war unemployment rate of more than 60 percent of Iraq, there are a large number of people living in poverty.

Economic growth does not mean "natural reduction of poverty"

Western economics from the originator of Adam Smith's writing "The Wealth of Nations" to start, "get rich economics" has been a significant study. But "rich world" does not eliminate poverty. The 21st century, the challenges of poverty has become even more severe.

United Nations anti-poverty agency's statistics show that in the past 50 years, the world's wealth increased by 7 times, while the problem of poverty is worsening. In the last 5 years, the world's poor population increased by 300 million a day, 7.5 billion people who suffer from hunger. This shows that economic growth does not necessarily bring plenty of people's lives, the problem of market failure on the absence of government or policy.

Policies and regulations of the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office Secretary Liu Hopewell said that the achievements of China's poverty alleviation has attracted worldwide attention. Despite China's poverty-stricken population in 2003 was picked up, but the overall Recalling "Tenth Five-Year" period, as we push forward to take the whole village, training transfer, the industrialization of poverty alleviation, establishment of guarantee funds, and reform the way a series of discounts to increase anti-poverty measures, make poverty alleviation a historic turning point.