TargetedPovertyReliefChina’sNewAnti-PovertyStrategy最新分析和总结.pdfVIP

Targeted Poverty Relief China ’-Poverty Strategys New Anti Since the late 1970s， China has made great progress in large-scale poverty reduction in the process of its reform and opening up ， making considerable contribution to the realization of the UN Millennium Development Goals （MDGs）. However ， the nation is still facing problems such as income inequality ， comparatively lower poverty line ， huge poor population ， and lack of targeted poverty alleviation measures. In this context ， the strategy of “targeted poverty relief ” needs to be taken further for hastening large-scale poverty reduction. Progress in Poverty Alleviation Over nearly four decades since it began the reform and openingup policy ， China has greatly reduced poverty while maintaining rapid economic growth. According to the World Bank’s poverty line of US$1 a day ， the country cut the number of the poor by more than 700 million in the past 40 years. In 2000， the UN Millennium Summit passed the MDGs ， setting a goal to halve the number of the poor from the 1990 figure. China was the first country to reach the goal. By 2002 ， it had reduced the percentage of the poor in rural areas to 30 percent ， which was 60 percent in 1990. During the period ， China’s contribution rate to global poverty reduction exceeded 70 percent. China has made further efforts to reduce poverty since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 2012. By the end of 2017 ， the population of the poor in the country ’s rural areas had decreased to 30.26 million from 98.99 million at the end of 2012 ， and the poverty headcount ratio had dropped from 10.2 percent to 3.1 percent. Rapid economic growth over decades has substantially increased incomes and consumption ， being decisive in large-scale poverty reduction. This large-scale poverty reduction is a