In order to win the battle against poverty, General Secretary Xi Jinping held these 7 special meetings

It is a solemn promise made by the CPC Central Committee to the people of the whole country that all the rural poor people under the current standard will be lifted out of poverty by 2020. Since 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping has held seven special conferences on winning the battle against poverty. Before each symposium, the general secretary first went to the poverty-stricken areas to investigate the situation on the spot, listened to the opinions of the grassroots cadres and the masses, and summoned the responsible comrades of the relevant provinces to make work arrangements based on the information learned.

Let's learn from the important speeches made by the General Secretary at these seven special meetings.

 

Presided over a symposium on poverty alleviation and prosperity in the old revolutionary base areas of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia in Yan'an, Shaanxi.

(February 13, 2015)

"We achieve the goal of the first century of struggle and build a well-off society in an all-round way, and it is incomplete without an all-round well-off society in the old areas, especially without the poor people in the old areas getting rid of poverty and becoming rich. This is what I often say about the meaning of being well-off and not being well-off, and the key is to look at the fellows."

"It is the unshirkable responsibility of our party and government to speed up the development of the old base areas, do a good job in poverty alleviation and development in the old base areas, let the rural poor in the old base areas get rid of poverty and become rich as soon as possible, and ensure that the people in the old base areas enter a well-off society in an all-round way together with the people of the whole country."

"A happy and beautiful life does not fall from the sky, but depends on hard work to create it. Party committees and governments at all levels should enhance their sense of mission and responsibility, keep the development of old areas and the improvement of people's lives in old areas in mind and in their hands at all times, do solid work, implement the requirements of precise poverty alleviation, achieve clear goals, clear tasks, clear responsibilities and clear measures, and use money to the best of the poor."

"The work of a county is complicated, and the secretary of the county party committee is crucial to arrange and coordinate all aspects. It is necessary to strengthen study, practice and thinking, constantly improve the level of knowledge, and cultivate the skills and talents that benefit one party."

 

A symposium on poverty alleviation and economic and social development during the 13th Five-Year Plan period was held in Guiyang, Guizhou.

(June 18, 2015)

"Party committees and governments at all levels must increase their sense of urgency and initiative, further clarify their thinking and strengthen their responsibilities in poverty alleviation, and adopt measures that are more powerful, more targeted, more direct, and more sustainable. Targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty alleviation."

"it is necessary to strengthen the leadership responsibility system for poverty alleviation and development work, and put the management system of overall planning by the central government, overall responsibility by the province, and implementation by cities (prefectures) and counties, and the working mechanism of focusing on pieces, working to villages, and poverty alleviation to households. The responsibility system for poverty alleviation and development work in which the top leaders of the party and government are responsible for the overall responsibility has been truly implemented."

"Poverty alleviation and development is the common responsibility of the whole party and society, and it is necessary to mobilize and gather the forces of the whole society to participate extensively."

"To do a good job in poverty alleviation and development, the grass-roots level is the foundation. We should organically integrate poverty alleviation and development with the construction of grass-roots organizations, do a good job of supporting the construction of village-level organizations with village party organizations as the core, encourage and select outstanding young cadres, veterans and college graduates with good thinking, good work style, strong ability and willingness to serve the masses to work in poor villages, and truly build grass-roots party organizations into strong fighting fortresses to lead the masses out of poverty."

"The selection of poverty alleviation task forces is an effective organizational measure to strengthen poverty alleviation work at the grass-roots level, so that every poor village has a resident task force and every poor household has a person responsible for helping them. The task force and resident cadres should concentrate on poverty alleviation and development work and play an effective role."

 

Hosted in Yinchuan, Ningxia, East-West Cooperation Symposium on Poverty Alleviation

(July 20, 2016)

"The western region, especially the ethnic minority areas, border areas, old revolutionary base areas, and contiguous poverty-stricken areas, is deeply impoverished, the cost of poverty alleviation is high, and it is difficult to get rid of poverty. To further do a good job in poverty alleviation cooperation and counterpart support between the east and the west, we must adopt systematic policies and measures."

"Poverty alleviation and development has reached the stage of conquering the last bastion, and most of the people we face are poor among the poor and poor among the poor, and we need to grasp the work with greater determination, clearer ideas and more precise measures. We should insist that time is subordinate to quality, scientifically determine the time to get rid of poverty, and do not engage in layer-by-layer overweight. We should really help the poor, help the real poor, and really get rid of poverty."

"The fight against poverty is a dry one, relying on the concerted efforts of the broad masses of cadres and the masses. Poverty-stricken areas should stimulate the ambition and endogenous motivation to get out of poverty, and with a more uplifting spirit and a more solid work style, self-reliance and hard work, so as to gather a powerful force to win the battle against poverty."

"It is necessary to organize and mobilize cadres who are interested in doing meritorious deeds for the party and the people to come to the western region, and strive to grow themselves into high-quality cadres who can shoulder heavy responsibilities and fight tough battles under difficult conditions and in overcoming difficulties."

 

Hosted a Symposium on Poverty Alleviation in Deep Poverty Areas in Taiyuan, Shanxi

(23 June 2017)

"Now, the main difficulty of poverty alleviation is deep poverty. The main difficulty lies in the following areas: one is the contiguous deep poverty areas. The second is the deep poverty counties. The third is the poor villages."

"According to the survey of Hebei Province, the characteristics of deep poverty can be summarized as'two high, one low, one poor, and three '. The 'two highs' means a high proportion of poor people and a high incidence of poverty. 'One low' means low per capita disposable income. 'One poor' means poor infrastructure and housing. The" triple "means that the poverty-stricken people with minimum living allowances and five guarantees have a heavy task of getting rid of poverty, the poverty-stricken people returning to poverty due to illness have a heavy task of getting rid of poverty, and the poverty-stricken elderly have a heavy task of getting rid of poverty."

"Deeply impoverished areas, impoverished counties, and impoverished villages have many common causes of poverty and poverty. One is the integration of old revolutionary areas, ethnic regions, and border areas. The second is the lagging development of infrastructure and social undertakings. The third is the lagging development of society and the low level of social civilization. The fourth is the fragile ecological environment and frequent natural disasters. The fifth is the lagging economic development and poor villages."

"Among the causes of deep poverty, special attention needs to be paid to the issue of poverty due to illness."

"Reasonably set the goal of poverty alleviation. We should seek truth from facts, do not aim too high, and do not raise the appetite of all parties."

"We should give full play to the main and leading role of government investment, and give full play to the guiding and synergistic role of financial funds."

"The causes of deep poverty vary from place to place, and the concentration of superior forces to fight the war of annihilation should proceed from the reality of each region and give full play to our institutional advantages of concentrating our efforts on major issues."

"Regional development must focus on precision poverty alleviation."

"It is necessary to increase the assistance and support of the eastern region and the central units to the deeply impoverished areas, and strengthen the responsibility of assistance, 'Whose child will hold '."

"When I was working in Ningde, Fujian, I said 'weak birds fly first', which means that poor areas and poor people must first have the awareness of 'flying' and the action of 'fly first'. There is no internal motivation, only relying on external help, no matter how much help, you are not willing to 'fly', nor can you solve the problem fundamentally."

"It is necessary to organically combine the consolidation of rural grass-roots party organizations with the fight against poverty, select the top leaders and strengthen the leading bodies, especially to be determined to solve the problem of weak and lax grass-roots groups, and give full play to the role of village party organizations as a fighting fortress in the fight against poverty."

"Deep poverty-stricken areas should be used as an important platform for training and selecting cadres. Poverty-relief cadres should really sink down, throw themselves down to work in the village, work with the masses, not skimming the surface, not fishing for three days and drying the net for two days, not seeing the head and tail of the dragon."

"For some time, some materials have reflected that in order to accurately identify poverty and help the poor, some places have made a lot of forms to fill in below. Some grass-roots cadres are busy filling out all kinds of forms, working overtime, and even have no time to go into villages and households to investigate and do practical things. There are also some forms that need to be filled in by the poor people themselves, but the design of the forms is too complicated, there are too many items to fill in, and there are many terms that farmers can't figure out. Attention should be paid to correcting such problems, accurate identification of poverty and accurate poverty alleviation should be adhered to, but we should pay attention to science, methods, and efficiency, centralize all aspects of information, establish an information database, and realize the sharing of information resources."

 

Presided over a Symposium on Fighting Precision Poverty Alleviation in Chengdu, Sichuan

(February 12, 2018)

"Formalism, bureaucracy, fraud, impatience and war-weariness, as well as negative corruption in the fight against poverty still exist, and some of them are still very serious. It is necessary to make persistent efforts, carry forward the continuous combat style, and be prepared to deal with and overcome various difficulties and challenges."

"Party and government cadres at all levels, especially the top leaders, must personally grasp the fight against poverty with a high sense of historical mission. The party committees and governments of poor counties bear the main responsibility for the fight against poverty, and the top leaders are the first responsible persons, so they should devote their main energy to the fight against poverty."

"Stick to target standards. Neither lower standards, affect quality, nor raise standards, whet appetite."

"The central government's overall planning is to do a good job in top-level design, create conditions for local governments in terms of policies and funds, and strengthen the supervision of poverty alleviation effects. The province's overall responsibility is to link the past and the next, transform the Party Central Committee's major policies into implementation plans, and promote the implementation of work. The implementation of cities and counties is to proceed from the local reality and promote the implementation of various policies and measures for poverty alleviation. We should improve the assessment and evaluation mechanism and continuously improve it according to the progress of poverty alleviation."

"The key to fighting the battle against poverty lies in people, in their concept, ability and drive. We should highlight the study and training of poverty alleviation cadres at all levels."

 

Hosted a symposium in Chongqing to solve the outstanding problems of "two no worries and three guarantees"

(April 16, 2019)

"On the whole, the" two no worries "have been basically solved, and there are still many weak links in the" three guarantees."

"To solve the outstanding problems of the'Three Guarantees', we must adhere to the system and mechanism of the central government's overall planning, the province's overall responsibility, and the city and county's implementation."

"The situation varies from place to place. For example, there is a guarantee of housing safety, the southern housing should focus on ventilation, the northern housing should focus on warmth; there is a guarantee of drinking water safety, the northwest region focuses on solving the problem of having water to drink, the southwest region focuses on solving the problem of water storage and water supply and water quality standards. The implementation of each region should be combined with the actual grasp, not one size fits all."

"Various localities have done a lot of exploration in solving the outstanding problems of the 'three safeguarded, 'and some places have intentionally or unintentionally raised the standard. Those that clearly exceed the standard should be corrected; those that do not clearly exceed the standard should be corrected; those that do not clearly exceed the standard should be maintained for policy stability and continuity and less 'flipping the pancakes'."

"To solve the 'two do not worry about the three safety' outstanding problems, to find out the bottom number is the basis, some places the bottom number is still not very clear, this is not enough. The relevant departments should guide all localities to find out the bottom number, to ensure that the work is targeted. The relevant departments should strengthen the data comparison and convergence, not a department a number."

"Some deeply impoverished counties outside the'three districts and three prefects' should intensify their work, study and refine practical measures one by one, attack cities and pull out villages, and ensure the completion of poverty alleviation tasks."

"Poverty alleviation depends not only on quantity, but also on quality, and we cannot all say that the task of poverty alleviation has been completed at that time, and we will return to poverty on a large scale in a year or two. We need to take a multi-pronged approach to improve the quality of poverty alleviation and consolidate the results of poverty alleviation."

"After the poverty-stricken counties take off their hats, they should continue to complete the task of lifting the remaining poor out of poverty and achieve stable poverty alleviation for the people who have been lifted out of poverty. The principal party and government positions in poverty-stricken counties should remain stable, so that they do not take off their hats and do not take off their responsibilities; the poverty alleviation task force should not be withdrawn, so that they do not take off their hats and do not take off their supervision."

"For comrades who are fighting on the front line of poverty alleviation, we should care about their lives, health and safety, and give timely pensions and long-term assistance to the families of sacrificed cadres. We should pay attention to the cultivation and use of cadres who have made achievements at the grass-roots level and are welcomed by the masses. We should strengthen publicity and recognition and tell good stories about poverty alleviation."

 

Attended a symposium on decisive victory and poverty alleviation in Beijing and delivered an important speech

(March 6, 2020)

"Overall, we have made unprecedented achievements in the area of poverty alleviation, demonstrating the political advantages of the leadership of the Communist Party of China and China's socialist system. These achievements have gathered the wisdom and painstaking efforts of the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country, and are the result of the solid work of the cadres and masses."

"The battle against poverty cannot be won with a single charge. From decisive achievements to overall victory, the difficulties and challenges faced are still arduous, and we must not slacken our efforts."

"There are still 52 poverty-stricken counties in the country that have not taken off their hats, 2707 poverty-stricken villages have not been listed, and all the poor people who have established files and registered cards have not been lifted out of poverty. Although the total amount is not large compared to the past, it is the most difficult hard bone to chew."

"The impact of the epidemic on poverty alleviation is mainly manifested in the following aspects. The first is that migrant workers are blocked. The second is that it is difficult to sell poverty alleviation products and industry poverty alleviation. The third is that poverty alleviation projects are suspended. The fourth is that assistance work is affected."

"According to preliminary mapping from all over the world, nearly 2 million of the people who have been lifted out of poverty are at risk of returning to poverty, and nearly 3 million of the marginal population are at risk of becoming poor."

"As more and more poor people have been lifted out of poverty and poor counties have taken off their hats, there has been a shift in the focus of work, a decline in investment and a dispersion of cadres in some places. Formalism and bureaucracy have been repeatedly banned, digital and false poverty alleviation still occurs, and the problems of 'one-shed', 'one-shed' and 'one-shed' in individual areas have not been effectively solved, and the endogenous motivation for the development of some poor people is insufficient."

"At present, the policy guarantee, financial support and work force for poverty alleviation are sufficient, and cadres at all levels have also accumulated rich experience. As long as everyone tightens the strings, works harder, and unswervingly implements the Party Central Committee's decision-making and deployment, they are fully qualified. Ability to complete the poverty alleviation goals and tasks on schedule."

"To ensure that the remaining poverty-stricken people who have established files and registered cards are lifted out of poverty as scheduled, 52 poverty-stricken counties and 1113 poverty-stricken villages will be listed and supervised. The State Council's Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation and Development must be more hard'supervise', and all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities must unite. Concentrate on'war' and gnaw the last hard bones."

"It is necessary to implement a precise prevention and control strategy by zoning and grading. In areas with serious epidemics, while focusing on epidemic prevention and control, they can innovate their ways of working to promote epidemic prevention and control and poverty alleviation as a whole. In areas where there is no epidemic or where the epidemic is mild, they should focus on accelerating the fight against poverty."

"For poor counties, poor villages, and poor people who have withdrawn, it is necessary to maintain the overall stability of the existing assistance policies, and help them to get a ride."

"Starting from the second half of the year, the state should organize a general survey of poverty alleviation and conduct a comprehensive test of the effectiveness of poverty alleviation in various places. This is a major event. It is necessary to provide data support for the Party Central Committee's timely announcement of winning the battle against poverty and building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, so as to ensure that it can stand the test of history and the people."

"Poverty alleviation is not the end, but the starting point for a new life and a new struggle. We should clarify our work ideas in response to the changes in the main contradictions, promote the smooth transformation of the poverty reduction strategy and work system, integrate them into the rural revitalization strategy, and establish an institutional mechanism that combines long and short, and addresses both the symptoms and the root causes. This work is being studied by the relevant central departments."

"Whether the task of poverty alleviation can be completed with high quality depends on people and the style of cadres."

"It is necessary to strengthen the training of cadres in poverty alleviation, ensure that all newly selected village cadres and newly appointed rural cadres are trained in rotation, and enhance the ability of accurate poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation."

"It is necessary to focus on publicizing the Party Central Committee's decision-making and deployment on poverty alleviation, publicizing new measures and good methods for all regions and departments to coordinate the promotion of epidemic prevention and control and poverty alleviation work, and publicizing the typical deeds of grassroots poverty alleviation cadres and the touching stories of the hard work of the people in poor areas."

 

Source: People's Daily Online