SCIO briefing on poverty alleviation and development
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Xinhua News Agency:
I have two questions for Mr. Liu. The first one is about the relocation of 10 million impoverished people. Where will they move? Is there a specific number for this population? Which province will receive the majority of them?
My second question is about poverty alleviation in poverty-stricken counties. As far as I know, there are 592 key poverty-stricken counties in China, but in contiguous poverty-stricken areas, there are also 680 large counties. You mentioned removing the “poverty-stricken” title from all of them. Do you mean the 592 key counties only or the large counties as well?
Liu Yongfu:
10 million is not a rough estimation. The central government made the decision after full deliberation. We spent more than one year investigating the situation and have marked those who need to be relocated in their poverty alleviation files. So, the number is basically accurate. Of course, there will be errors. They will be discovered and corrected during practice. Now, we have established a relocation list and logged the names into our database.
As for your second question, the central authorities decided to tackle regional poverty, with both large counties and key counties included. There are 832 of them in all. As for regional poverty, let me explain it in this way. A large county may cover thousands of square kilometers of land, and its poverty should be considered a regional problem.
One more word on your first question, we’ve got the names of all the 10 million people to be relocated. Thank you.
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