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Provinces taking steps to eliminate poverty

SEVERAL Chinese provinces have set goals for poverty reduction at their local “two sessions” — meetings of lawmakers and political advisers.

Central China’s Hunan Province has made poverty alleviation a priority, vowing to lift 1.1 million people, 10 counties and 2,500 villages out of poverty this year.

Its government said it earmarked nearly 6 billion yuan (US$870 million) to help 1.25 million people shake off poverty last year.

Henan Province also plans to lift about 1 million rural residents out of poverty this year and aims to eradicate the problem by 2019. More than 5 million people were below the poverty line at the end of 2014, about 3.5 million of whom have now been lifted out of poverty.

East China’s Shandong Province is promising to eradicate poverty for about 2.42 million people by 2018. Last year, 1.2 million of its residents were lifted above the poverty line.

Yin Li, governor of Sichuan Province in southwest China, said 1.07 million people were lifted out of poverty last year, and another 1.05 million will be in 2017.

Yunnan Province, Sichuan’s neighbor to the south, also plans to eradicate poverty for 1 million people this year.

North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region said 200,000 people will be helped to shake off poverty this year to join the 210,000 lifted out of poverty last year.

Currently about 590,000 people live in poverty in the region, according to the local government.

China aims to eradicate rural poverty by 2020, lifting its remaining 55 million rural poor above the poverty line of 2,300 yuan in annual income.

Last year, China set a target of lifting a total of 10 million people out of poverty and it has set the same target for 2017.




 

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