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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
YINCHUAN, June 19 (Xinhua) — Chinese Vice Premier Liu Guozhong has called for unremitting efforts to consolidate and expand China’s achievements in poverty alleviation and optimize policies to provide regular aid to rural areas.
Liu Guozhong, also a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks during an inspection tour of Shanxi, Gansu and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region from June 16 to 19.
Having announced that absolute poverty will be eradicated in 2021, China has set a five-year transition period to consolidate and build on the achievements of poverty alleviation and integrate these achievements into the process of rural revitalization.
Liu Guozhong reminded that there are only six months left until the end of the transition period, and called for strengthening monitoring of emergencies such as diseases and natural disasters, and taking measures to reduce potential risks. Efforts to combat poverty in production should take into account local conditions, he said, calling for more work to stabilize employment and increase the incomes of those lifted out of poverty.
According to the Deputy Prime Minister of the State Council, it is important to strengthen assistance to people who participated in the resettlement and settlement program in a new place, deepen cooperation between the eastern and western regions of the country and targeted assistance from the central government.
At a meeting held during the inspection tour, Liu Guozhong called for a diversified system of assistance to low-income rural residents and underdeveloped areas in the post-transition period. He pointed out the need to firmly maintain a lower limit on preventing large-scale poverty relapse or emergence, while stepping up efforts to revitalize rural areas in all areas.
The Deputy Prime Minister of the State Council also stressed the importance of effective work on harvesting the summer crop to ensure a rich grain harvest for the entire year. –0–