Eradicating Poverty in Three Years

[Randy W]

in the SCMP

 

‘We must send our best to the front line’: Xi Jinping goes all out to rid China of poverty in three years

Transcript released on day Beijing announced date of upcoming party congress contains details of plan to wipe out poverty in China by 2020

 

 

The transcript was released on Thursday, the same day as Beijing named October 18 as the opening date for the 19th party congress. Poverty alleviation is expected to be a policy priority for Xi in his second term, a move seen as building support at the grassroots level.

 

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“All levels of government should actively send cadres to station in poor villages in an effort to fortify the party leadership,” he said.

County governments should take the lead in poverty alleviation, Xi said, adding that having stable leadership at the county level was essential. County leaders who perform well in poverty alleviation should be promoted, he said.

 

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Ever since taking the helm, Xi has researched and travelled extensively to extremely poor areas as poverty reduction is a key political target for the Communist Party and the central government. The official goal is to eliminate poverty, defined as annual income of less than 2,300 yuan (HK$2,728), and build an “all-round well-off society” by 2020 with all resources available.

 

 

[Greg.D.]

Admirable goal. Whereas improvement has largely through trickle-down until now, engineering targeted prosperity will be much harder.

 

i immediately recognized that brick pattern which, but for your photos, is invisible now in your project.

[Greg.D.]

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2089654/china-rural-rich-get-richer-and-poor-get-poorer

 

A companion piece to the above article. Some here would say it is eerily similar to our situation:

In China, rural rich get richer and poor get poorer

 

 

 

Researchers have warned about a growing wealth gap in rural areas, posing further challenges as Beijing makes poverty alleviation a top priority.

An annual report by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) found that although the wealth gap between different regions is narrowing, inequality between different income groups is expanding.

 

“The income distribution among rural residents has become increasingly complicated. It is more and more difficult to keep the momentum of income growth,” the report concluded.

“This might pose an issue, when the incomes of all the other income groups are growing but the low-income group, especially when the central Communist Party leadership takes poverty ­alleviation as one of the top priorities,” CASS researcher Du Xiaoshan warned.

“We can’t be too optimistic about this,” Du said. “We must pay special attention to the comparison of different groups, including between and among urban and rural residents.”

Edited September 1, 2017 by Greg.D. (see edit history)

[amberjack1234]

Some of the old entrepreneurs might go for this but I don't think that their selfish children with their lavish lifestyle will ever go for it. I think that most of the money will be in Vancouver and California in 20 years if they can get it there and they are doing a good job of it right now. The poor will be left to deal with all the polluted everything that's left.