China's Experience of Women's Poverty Alleviation in the New Era

In leading the whole party and the people of the whole country in the great struggle to get rid of poverty, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has always been caring for the broad masses of women, put the problem of women's poverty alleviation and development in a prominent position, and made a series of decisions and arrangements. it provides a fundamental guarantee to ensure that no women are left behind on the road to a well-off society. On the main battlefield of poverty alleviation, the strength of "half the sky" is bursting out and the elegant demeanor of women is vividly displayed. The spiritual outlook of poor women has taken on a new look and the road to wealth has become wider and wider. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, women account for about half of the nearly 0.1 billion poor people who have been lifted out of poverty. The great achievements of Chinese women in poverty alleviation and poverty reduction are an important manifestation of the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the superiority of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. It is a vivid practice of the basic national policy of equality between men and women in the field of poverty alleviation and poverty reduction. It has injected strong momentum and contributed Chinese wisdom and experience to the promotion of global women's poverty reduction process and even the development of global women's cause.

First, adhere to the party's brilliant thought to guide the direction of women's poverty alleviation and poverty reduction.

China has the largest group of women in the world. General Secretary Xi Jinping stands at the political height of consolidating and expanding the party's ruling class foundation and women's mass foundation, and stands at the overall height of the development of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and attaches importance to caring for women and women's work. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has represented the Party Central Committee to extend holiday congratulations and sincere blessings to women and compatriots of all ethnic groups and all walks of life across the country on every "March 8th" International Women's Day, and encourage women to build a well-off society in all respects. Realize the "two centenary" goals and work together for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation; deliver important speeches on women and women's work at important conferences and important occasions, deeply clarify the status, role, objectives, tasks, responsibilities, missions, and practical requirements of women's work, emphasize the need to strengthen the party's leadership of women's work, adhere to the path of socialist women's development with Chinese characteristics, and firmly grasp the realization of the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation The theme of the times of the Chinese women's movement, give play to the unique role of women, deepen the reform of women's federations, maintain and enhance the political advancement and mass; actively promote the development achievements of China's women's cause to the international community, declare a firm position of adhering to the basic national policy of equality between men and women, and put forward China's proposal to accelerate the realization of gender equality. General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on women and women's work is an important part of Xi Jinping's thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, which points out the way forward and provides a fundamental basis for doing a good job in women's work in the new era.

Wuying Miao Village is located in the depths of the Great Miao Mountain at the junction of Guangxi and Guizhou. As most young and middle-aged people go out to work, women who stay in their homes have become an important labor force in Miao Village. In order to improve women's ability to shake off poverty and become rich,

Local women's federations, people's societies and other departments adopt the model of "base embroidery niang enterprise market" to help them increase their income by regularly training embroidery niang, purchasing embroidery products, reprocessing and putting them into the market.

The picture shows on October 18, 2019, women in Wuying Miao Village learn embroidery in a training class. Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Xiaobang/photo

General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been concerned about women's poverty alleviation and development, caring and thinking about women's poverty alleviation and poverty reduction work, and repeatedly emphasized that "to build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, no one can be left behind; on the road to common prosperity, no one can be left behind", full of people including women. All people share the fruits of reform and development and live a happy and beautiful life. Creatively put forward the basic strategy of targeted poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation, it provides a "golden key" for targeted assistance work according to the actual situation of different poor people, including women ". General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected and investigated all over the country, especially in the process of entering villages and households and visiting the poor, leaving many heart-warming pictures with poor women, which greatly inspired women of all ethnic groups across the country to fight poverty. Confidence and strength. General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered speeches on a series of important domestic and international occasions, such as the Central Rural Work Conference, the Central Party's Group Work Conference, the High-level Forum on Poverty Reduction and Development, the Global Women's Summit, and the United Nations General Assembly's high-level meeting to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Beijing World Conference on Women In a collective conversation with members of the All-China Women's Federation's Federation leadership team, a systematic explanation and comprehensive deployment were made on women's poverty alleviation. The first is to take women as the key targets for poverty alleviation, emphasizing that my country's rural poor, urban needy people, migrant workers, rural left-behind women, children, the elderly, and the disabled are all groups in special need of care. We must care about them, help them, and love them. The second is to take the promotion of women's development as an important experience in the road to poverty reduction with Chinese characteristics, pointing out that "adhere to the government's leadership, incorporate poverty alleviation and development into the overall national development strategy, carry out large-scale special poverty alleviation actions, and organize and implement women, children, the disabled, and the disabled for specific groups. Minority development plan". The third is to regard women as the main force in poverty alleviation, and emphasize that it is an important task for the whole party and the whole country to fight against poverty. The majority of women should inspire women's aspirations, unite women's strength, and demonstrate the beauty of women. The fourth is to clarify the responsibilities and tasks of women's federations in winning the battle against poverty, and require women's federations to do a lot, to implement the "women's poverty alleviation action", and to pay special attention to poor women, disabled women, left-behind women and other women in need, and to do good things for them. Solve problems and do practical things. The fifth is to reveal the far-reaching significance of poverty eradication for achieving gender equality and promoting the development of global women's cause, and call on all countries to care for poor women, elderly women, disabled women and other disadvantaged groups, formulate more scientific and reasonable development strategies, ensure that women share the fruits of development equally, and promote The majority of women participate in economic and social development. These new viewpoints, new judgments and new requirements reflect the people-centered development thinking, contain a profound summary of anti-poverty practical experience and strategic thinking on thoroughly solving the poverty problem, and demonstrate the gender perspective of the leaders of major countries in drawing a blueprint for poverty alleviation. It provides scientific guidance and action guidelines for women to achieve poverty alleviation and development and pursue a happy new life with all people.

2. Insists on Integrating the Promotion of Women's Poverty Alleviation and Development into the Overall Work of the Party and the State

According to the national poverty monitoring sample survey, in 2010, the poverty incidence rate of female population in key counties of national poverty alleviation and development work was 9.8, 0.4 percentage points higher than that of men; illiteracy accounted for 15.7 of female labor force, 10.2 percentage points higher than that of men; the proportion of female labor force receiving vocational and technical training, the proportion of employment, income status and social participation were significantly lower than those of men. The elimination of women's poverty is not only related to the survival and development of women themselves, but also related to blocking the intergenerational transmission of poverty, the harmony and happiness of hundreds of millions of families, and the quality and quality of building a well-off society in an all-round way. It is an important part of winning the battle against poverty. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has been far-sighted and far-sighted, focusing on coordinating the common interests of all people and the special interests of women in strategic planning, focusing on highlighting the important concerns of women in the top-level design, and continuously strengthening the promotion of women. Institutional guarantees for poverty alleviation and development.

The first is to incorporate women's poverty alleviation and development into the overall framework of the Party's governance. The emphasis on "adhering to the basic national policy of equality between men and women and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of women and children" and "adhering to and improving the institutional mechanism for promoting equality between men and women and women's all-round development" not only provides important guidance for women's poverty alleviation and development from a macro perspective, but also clearly proposes to improve the care and service system for rural left-behind women, providing a fundamental path to solve the problem of this special group of poor women.

The second is to integrate women's poverty alleviation into the overall economic and social development. It is clearly pointed out that "strengthening women's poverty alleviation and poverty reduction" work, and promoting women's poverty alleviation and development is a hard task that must be completed during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period.

The third is to incorporate women's poverty alleviation and development into the national targeted poverty alleviation strategy. As an outline document guiding poverty alleviation in the new era, the decision of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on winning the battle against poverty puts forward specific tasks to promote the development of women's poverty alleviation, including the comprehensive implementation of free screening for cervical cancer and breast cancer in poor areas, improving the care service system for left behind women, and increasing the implementation of micro loans for women, It fully embodies the precise policy guidance of classified support for the poor according to the causes and needs of poverty. The "Guiding Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Winning the Three-Year Action for Poverty Alleviation" focuses on solving outstanding problems and emphasizes the expansion of "two cancers" inspections to all poor counties.

The fourth is to formulate and implement a national plan of action for the development of women. General Secretary Xi Jinping specifically mentioned "organizing and implementing the development plan for women, children, the disabled, and ethnic minorities for specific groups." The State Council promulgated and implemented the China Women's Development Program. This national action plan tailored for women will be scattered in the party. The policies, functions, and mechanisms of the government and mass departments are incorporated into the overall institutional framework, focusing on core areas related to women's development, such as health, education, economy, participation in decision-making and management, and social security, A series of specific goals and strategic measures are put forward to provide a comprehensive, systematic and strategic public policy tool for women's poverty alleviation. Around the implementation of the outline for the development of Chinese women, a national to local planning and implementation system, monitoring and evaluation system and related working mechanisms have been formed. These three inclusion and one national action plan are institutional arrangements that adhere to the leadership of the party, are based on the basic national conditions, reflect the will of the country, and have unique Chinese characteristics. It is of great significance to effectively solve the key and difficult problems that hinder the development of Chinese women's poverty alleviation.

3. Adhere to the improvement of the women's poverty alleviation work pattern led by the party committee, led by the government, participated by all parties, and coordinated advancement

Adhering to a game of chess across the country, mobilizing the enthusiasm of all parties, and concentrating on major tasks is a significant advantage of my country's national system and national governance system. It is our party's historic solution to the absolute poverty problem that has plagued the Chinese nation for thousands of years, and writing a great legend in the history of human development. An important magic weapon; it is also an important guarantee for our party to eradicate women's poverty and lead women's poverty alleviation and continuous new results.

Sound working mechanism.General Secretary Xi Jinping personally took command, personally went out to war, personally supervised the war, established and improved the responsibility system for poverty alleviation from top to bottom, strictly implemented the top-level responsibility system, and worked together with the five-level secretaries of provinces, cities, counties and villages. strengthening the overall planning of the central government, the overall responsibility of the province, and the implementation of cities and counties have become the key driving force for women's poverty alleviation and development. The Central Leading Group for Rural Work, the Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation and Development of the State Council, and the Leading Group for Employment of the State Council all regard the All-China Women's Federation as member units. Governments above the county level and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have established women and children working committees. The national level and all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have established gender equality evaluation mechanisms for laws and policies. These important discussion and coordination mechanisms are in the process of discovering, researching, solving specific problems of women's poverty alleviation and development, promote the various departments to form an effective work linkage.

Improve policy measures.After the CPC Central Committee made a major strategic plan to win the battle against poverty, a series of guiding documents, such as the opinions on doing a good job in poverty alleviation and development, the notice on vigorously promoting micro loans to promote the establishment of files and cards for women from poor families to get rid of poverty and become rich, the guiding opinions on promoting accurate poverty alleviation by e-commerce, and the opinions on strengthening care and service for rural left behind women, A series of guiding documents have been issued intensively, support the development of women in poor areas. With the support policies, the implementation of projects has provided a platform for poor women to get rich and brought about a multiplier effect. Taking domestic poverty alleviation as an example, in the past three years, it has helped poor women transfer more than 700,000 jobs, and a large number of female domestic poverty alleviation brands such as Sister Sunshine and Sister Wan have emerged.

In recent years, the all-China Women's Federation and China Women's Development Foundation has integrated health public welfare resources, stepped up efforts to carry out the "Mother's Health Express" project in poverty-stricken areas, and helped get rid of poverty through health poverty alleviation.

By the end of 2020, 2804 "Mother's Health Express" and on-board medical equipment had been donated to medical institutions such as maternal and child health hospitals in poverty-stricken areas, delivering professional and high-quality medical services to the doorstep of ordinary people.

The picture shows a Tu mother in Huzhu Tu Autonomous County, Haidong City, Qinghai Province, taking her child to a free clinic. China Women's Development Foundation

Continue to increase investment.For example, in terms of health poverty alleviation, public health projects such as free examination of "two cancers" and free pre pregnancy eugenic health examination for rural women have been implemented to achieve full coverage in poor areas with counties as a unit, benefiting more than 0.2 billion people in total. Among them, only the "two cancers" free examination project has been invested by the central government from 2009 to 2018, and 4 billion yuan by the local government by the end of 2019, the country has carried out a total of nearly 0.12 billion free cervical cancer examinations and nearly 48 million free breast cancer examinations; by the end of 2020, the Central Lottery Public Welfare Fund has allocated a total of 1.9 billion yuan, plus the social funds raised by the All-China Women's Federation, to provide assistance to 192200 poor and sick women, Effectively solved the problem of poverty caused by illness among poor women. In terms of financial support, from 2009 to 2018, a total of more than 380 billion million yuan of guaranteed loans for women's entrepreneurship were issued, with more than 650 million women receiving loans, helping poor women with entrepreneurial intentions to solve their financial difficulties; in the poverty alleviation microcredit issued from 2015 to 2019, the main body of loans was 1.36 million women, and the loan amount was 63.5 billion yuan.

Mobilize the whole society to participate.Incorporate women's poverty alleviation into the eastern and western poverty alleviation cooperation and counterpart support mechanisms, and provide assistance for women in poverty-stricken areas in the western region through various methods such as mutual labor assistance, industrial assistance, and consumption poverty alleviation. Women Entrepreneurs Association, Federation of Industry and Commerce Women's Chamber of Commerce, Women's Science and Technology Workers Association and other women's federation group members and women's social organizations go deep among women and children in poverty-stricken areas to carry out activities of "sending science and technology, knowledge, health and skills" to the countryside. Public welfare organizations such as the China Women's Development Foundation and the China Children and Teenagers' Foundation have launched a series of caring poverty alleviation projects. The "Spring Bud Program" has funded more than 3.7 million poor girls, and the "Mother's Water Cellar" has enabled 3.25 million people to obtain safe drinking water. The "Mother's Health Express" has benefited more than 74.5 million people.

4. Persisting in Giving Play to the Main Role of Women in Winning the Battle against Poverty

Women are beneficiaries, participants and contributors in the fight against poverty. To implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions, the work of poverty alleviation and poverty reduction for women in the new era will combine poverty alleviation with support for will and wisdom, combine heart and emotion to help and mobilize women's enthusiasm, initiative and creativity, and organize and mobilize the broad masses of women to devote themselves to the front line of poverty alleviation.

The endogenous motivation of poor women to get rid of poverty and become rich is greatly stimulated.Adhere to education first, make full use of various carriers and channels, and extensively carry out activities such as policy propaganda, inspirational education, skills training, and typical demonstrations to empower poor women, guide poor women to abandon the idea of relying on others, and establish self-reliance and hard work to get rich Concept. On October 13, 2020, at the "Women's Power on the Road to Poverty Alleviation" meeting held by the Information Office of the State Council, five women shared their stories of participating in poverty alleviation. Some of them led the sisters in the village to develop the seedling embroidery industry and got rid of poverty and became rich by traditional crafts. Some overcame the difficulties of suffering from cancer and losing their husbanded middle-aged people, vigorously developed the nursery stock economy, and drove the villagers to increase their income together after getting rid of poverty. Some set up e-commerce platforms and became "village net red" with tens of millions of fans ". They have different experiences, but they have a common feature, that is, the party's accurate poverty alleviation policy and the successful practice of China's poverty reduction cause have inspired their passion and drive to forge ahead. In the land of China, tens of thousands of women, like them, firmly believe that "happiness is the result of struggle". They have worked hard on the main battlefield of poverty alleviation, bid farewell to poverty with labor and sweat, and created a better new life.

The role of "half the sky" is fully demonstrated in the fight against poverty.Give full play to the role of entrepreneurship to increase income. Women have accounted for more than 60% of my country's rural labor force. They have shown their skills in the development of diversified formats such as characteristic planting and breeding, agricultural product processing, leisure agriculture, rural tourism, and e-commerce. A large number of family farms and agricultural cooperatives founded and led by women have emerged. Guizhou's "Splendid Plan" has led 500000 Xiuniang to increase her income and create an output value of 6 billion yuan. Gansu has implemented precise poverty alleviation measures to increase the per capita monthly income by about 2000 yuan. More than 2800 "beautiful hair houses" have been established in the four prefectures of southern Xinjiang, which has driven nearly 10,000 women to participate in beauty salon skills training and directly employed more than 4600 people. With the sudden onset of the new coronary pneumonia epidemic, women in poor areas have opened online micro-shops, "guarding their homes, holding their babies, doing their jobs, earning money and taking care of their families". To play the leading role of poverty alleviation and prosperity. Zhang Guimei, a female teacher in Yunnan, has been sticking to the poor mountainous areas for 40 years and founded a free women's Senior high school, which has changed the fate of 1804 poor girls. Deng Yingxiang, a female fool in the mountains of Guizhou, and the villagers worked hard for 13 years, cutting a tunnel on the cliff with one hammer, allowing the village to get rich. Huang Wenxiu, the first secretary of Baini Village in Guangxi, led the villagers to reduce the incidence of poverty from 22.88 per cent to 2.71 per cent, dedicating their young lives to the cause of poverty alleviation. They are typical advanced women who take root in poor mountain villages, have affection for the masses and are willing to contribute. Give play to the role of grassroots governance vanguard. Under the promotion of the Women's Federation, Sichuan Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture has implemented the women's action plan of "Building a New Wind to Help Poverty Alleviation" to guide women and drive family members to declare war on bad habits. Nearly 8000 village-level "women's mutual aid teams", "health and health publicity teams" and "sports dance teams" have been set up throughout the prefecture. 170000 Yi women have participated in publicity and education, civilization building and mutual help activities. 70% of the families have been rated as "Jiemei families". The active participation of the broad masses of women has not only promoted the root of poverty in poor areas, but also promoted civilized rural customs, good family customs, and simple folk customs, and helped the construction of beautiful villages. with practical actions, General Secretary Xi Jinping's request to give full play to the "two unique roles" of women.

Yiyuan County, Shandong Province, located in the Yimeng mountainous area, in the process of promoting targeted poverty alleviation, has carried out measures such as skill training, job door-to-door, industry promotion, and financial support.

The "Women's Poverty Alleviation, Entrepreneurship and Income Increase Project" guides and organizes the majority of rural women to participate in poverty alleviation and entrepreneurship work focusing on manual processing, social services, and income increase at home.

The picture shows peasant women in Xishagou Village, Lishan Street, Yiyuan County, Shandong Province, learning about e-commerce entrepreneurship. Xinhua News Agency issued by Zhao Dongshan/Photograph

The spiritual outlook of the majority of women is more uplifting. The great achievements of poverty alleviation in the new era vividly explain why the Communist Party of China is "capable", why Marxism is "practical", and why socialism with Chinese characteristics is "good". It is the most vivid and convincing teaching material for the education of ideals and beliefs. After the baptism of the fight against poverty, the majority of women have more deeply felt the broad feelings of General Secretary Xi Jinping's people first and wholeheartedly for the people, and have a deeper understanding of the superiority of the leadership of the Communist Party of China and the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. We have a deeper understanding of the great significance of a strong and powerful leadership core for winning a decisive victory in an all-round well-off society, fighting against poverty and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the ideals and beliefs of listening to the party and following the party have become firmer, the spiritual quality of self-esteem, self-confidence, self-reliance and self-improvement has been vigorously promoted, and the will to persevere and overcome difficulties has been tempered, which has injected strong positive energy into the continuation of the great Chinese spirit.

5. Persists in Taking Women's Federation as a Powerful Assistant for the Party to Carry out Poverty Alleviation Work for Women

It is a great pioneering work of our party and a great advantage of our party to help the party do mass work through mass organizations such as workers, youth and women, and to organize and mobilize the broad masses of the people to strive for the completion of the party's central tasks. The Women's Federation is a group organization personally created and led by the Communist Party of China. It is a bridge between the party and the government to connect with the masses of women and an important social pillar of state power. It is the women's organization with the widest coverage, the largest scale and the most complete organizational network in the world. It is born with political advantages, organizational advantages and advantages of close contact with the masses of women that women's organizations in other countries do not have. General Secretary Xi Jinping places great hopes on the Women's Federation in winning the fight against poverty. The "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Winning the Fight against Poverty" clearly pointed out that it is necessary to "give full play to the role of trade unions, the Communist Youth League, the Women's Federation and other mass organizations." Better assumption of the party's women's work responsibilities has given new era connotations and mission requirements.

The All-China Women's Federation and local women's federations keep in mind the entrustment of General Secretary Xi Jinping, and take the "women's poverty alleviation action" as a concrete action to enhance the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidence", and achieve the "two maintenance". Enhance the vivid practice of political, advanced, and mass nature, based on leading the positioning of service connection functions, give full play to the advantages of the word "union" and take the initiative. Highlight ideological guidance, take "ten million women's propaganda" and "women's poverty alleviation lecture hall" as carriers, and use more than 8000 women's federation websites and new media platforms, more than 900,000 sister WeChat groups, and more than 700,000 urban and rural communities "women's homes" to continuously convey the spirit of the CPC Central Committee, publicize poverty alleviation policies, publicize typical examples of getting rich, and strengthen poor women's confidence in getting rid of poverty. We will strengthen education and training, cooperate with poor girls to control dropouts, subsidize older girls to receive vocational education, implement a plan to improve the quality of rural women, and organize more than 1000 million poor women and key women to participate in various types of training at all levels to help poor women increase their skills. We will support characteristic industries, promote the establishment of more than 3000 women's handicraft associations and cooperatives, more than 10000 "women's poverty alleviation workshops" and more than 20000 women's brand name bases, and develop women's housekeeping, women's e-commerce and women's rural tourism, so as to drive more than 500 million poor women to increase their income and get rid of poverty. Do a good job in the "home" article, take the implementation of the "Family Happiness and Health Project" as the starting point, and extensively carry out the search for "the most beautiful family", the creation of "beautiful courtyards", "women's family beauty points supermarket", and good family style tours in poor areas And other colorful activities to promote a good family style and radiate a new atmosphere of rural civilization. We will strengthen care and assistance, carry out the activity of "sisters holding hands and women's quick walk out of poverty", organize the executive committee of the women's Federation to carry out paired assistance with poor single parents, seriously ill women, left behind women and disabled women, and carry out "protecting childhood" winter and summer vacation for left behind children, so as to send the care of the party and the warmth of the socialist family to poor women and children.

The successful practice of poverty alleviation and poverty reduction by Chinese women in the new era is a microcosm of the cause of poverty reduction with Chinese characteristics. It fully demonstrates the role of General Secretary Xi Jinping as the core of the Party Central Committee and the core of the whole party, and vividly confirms the leadership of the Communist Party of China and China. The great advantage of the characteristic socialist system. Victory in an all-round well-off society is in sight, and a new journey is about to begin. The majority of women will unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, unswervingly listen to the party, follow the party, and strive for the "14th Five-Year Plan" with a more uplifting attitude. ", forge ahead on a new journey, and make new and greater contributions to the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country!

 

Source: The Truth