Research On Current Anti-poverty In Rural Areas Of China

Poverty, as a common problem that faces in the economic evolution of human society, together with population and pollution are the three major difficult problems in the society. China is a developing country with the largest population. It has been facing the challenge of poverty problem due to backward economic development and a large number of rural population for a long time. Since the implementation of the policy of reform and opening-up, China has carried on a series of systems reform and regulation innovation in order to relieve heavily serious rural poverty. The work for anti-poverty in rural China has made brilliant achievements. The absolute poor population in China has declined to around 29 million in 2003 from 250 million in 1978. The poor occurrence frequency also has reduced from 30% to 3%. The problem of adequate food and clothing for most rural population has been mainly solved. However, the poverty line in rural China is very low. Fragile ecological environment, poorly equipped infrastructure, not well-established market mechanism and other systems restrict the progress of anti-poverty in rural China. Rural China has already entered a new historical time against the poverty.Under this background, to study the new characteristics of poverty problems in rural China, to analyze various factors restricting anti-poverty in the countryside of China, to discuss how to further reduce or dispel the rural poverty will not merely concern the improvement of living standard of rural poor population, but also exert a positive impact on building the socialism new countryside and establishing overall strategies of constructing the harmonious well-off society.This article takes the departure point from current poor situation in rural China. It defines poverty and anti-poverty initially, then introduces different indexes for calculating poverty and their application possibilities, and probes the relevant theories concerning anti-poverty thoroughly. Secondly, it is referred to the experiences of anti-poverty from other countries in the world, and review the course of anti-poverty in countryside of China. Moreover, this article focuses on the four aspects, namely, the analysis of poverty characteristics in new period of current China and the transition of anti-poverty policies, the relevant factors restraining anti-poverty in rural China, the effect of poverty alleviation from economic growth and the investment on poverty reduction, and multi-mode of anti-poverty suitable for China's conditions.Based on the analysis of poverty characteristic in new period of rural China and of the transition of the anti-poverty policies, this article argues that the main characteristics are the gradually decentralized poor rural population, the more severe relatively poor problem in spite of the reduction of the rural population of absolute poverty, the more...