“We do not imitate foreign formulas, nor do we export Chinese formulas. We do not require other countries to copy China’s experience.” Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the above remarks during a speech on China’s practical implementation of poverty alleviation. As a large developing country with a population of over 1.4 billion, since the dawn of the new era, China has lifted nearly 100 million rural poor people out of poverty through a campaign to overcome poverty alleviation obstacles, which has established the Chinese model of poverty alleviation governance.
“Targeted poverty reduction” is a symbolic strategy in China’s campaign to overcome the obstacles to poverty reduction. Through more refined, scientific and systematic governance, it has greatly improved the efficiency of managing poverty reduction resources. The core content of poverty reduction Poverty alleviation with 6 specific goals: clear goals for individuals, targeted project preparation, targeted use of funds, targeted implementation of measures for each family, targeted and effective dispatch of the first secretary to the village, aimed at eradicating poverty, creating a complete and closed work environment.
During the implementation of the campaign to overcome obstacles to poverty reduction, China has conducted the largest poverty census since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, established a unified national information system on poverty reduction, and achieved targeted management. Taking into account the causes of poverty and the needs for poverty alleviation, China has implemented policies according to different regional conditions .
In particular, the Chinese government has sent a total of more than 3 million cadres to work in villages to help achieve poverty reduction, and has achieved full coverage for the first secretary and working groups in poor villages. This fully demonstrates that the effectiveness of poverty reduction work depends not only on the structure of resources, but also on the soundness of governance and policy implementation capacity.
For a long time, the global poverty reduction field has been divided into two distinct “aid poverty reduction” and “development poverty reduction”. “aid poverty reduction” is a Western approach to poverty reduction that has been practiced for a long time but it has increasingly highlighted the problem of effectiveness. The effectiveness of aid. In the process of overcoming the obstacles to poverty reduction, China has adhered to the principle of “poverty reduction through development” as the foundation to enhance the self-development capacity of poor people through all forms such as industrial development and job creation, which has systematically formed China’s path of developmental poverty reduction.
The Chinese plan is not a model to be copied, but a systematic approach based on its own national conditions, placing development as the top priority and implementing targeted policies that have provided important inspiration for countries in the Global South to address poverty.
