As No.1 Central Document pointed, we should adhere to targeted poverty alleviation and generally realize the goal that rural poor people are free from worries over food and clothing and make available access for them to compulsory education, basic medical services, safe housing and drinking water safety, making sure all the rest of rural poor people get rid of poverty.

Organizing elite manpower with assistance boards on the wall to supervise assistance to poverty alleviation

Arear officials to better assist the rural poor out of poverty by recording the helper’s information and helpful measures on the board to the wall as an enforced supervision. The above areas cover all the counties with poverty and counties with over 10,000 poor residents or over 5% of incidence of poverty and administrative villages with over 1,000 poor residents or over 10% of incidence of poverty.

Preventing people from returning to poverty after being lifted out of it in a bid to consolidate poverty relief results

This document also stressed that we should prevent people returning to poverty after being lifted out of it in a bid to consolidate poverty relief results. This year, we will increase the input to develop competitive industries, provide more jobs, further boost consumption and relocate poor residents in the poor areas.

Yan Dongqun,Deputy Director-General of Development Planning Department, Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Areas, said that developing competitive industries in poor areas is a fundamental way for the poverty alleviation on stable footing. At present throughout all poor areas in China, 92% of poor households have involved in industries. The country will strengthen support for projects of areas in poverty by adding poverty alleviation funds, boosting the industrial development, and establishing long-term mechanisms for connection of producing and marketing in poor areas.

Where shall we go after poverty alleviation? Poverty reduction work will center more on addressing relative poverty.

The answer is clear. That is, we should make the poverty relief policies on stable footing in general. China will see an immense change after it accomplishes its poverty elimination tasks, it said, urging that poverty reduction work should center more on addressing relative poverty and become normalized.