Research On The Spirit Of Poverty Alleviation In China In The New Era

A great cause breeds a great spirit,and a great spirit guides a great cause.Anti-poverty,which is the glorious ideal and common mission of human beings,has been a big deal in governance for nations around the world throughout history.Along the way,the Chinese nation has a deep desire to get rid of poverty and live a better life where every family lives in abundance and people are well off both materially and spiritually.It was harder than ever to realize such an ideal in the long feudal society and modern China with turbulent political situation.However,the hardworking and brave Chinese people have always remained their original aspiration,great ambition and eternal spirit,even though they have undergone vicissitudes of thousands of years,crossed the gullies and hardships,bumped forward all the way and set up a spiritual monument to the comprehensive eradication of poverty in the new era of China,showing the spiritual potential of passing the flame,being indomitable and pushing forward.On February 25,2021,at a National Conference to Summarize the Fight against Poverty and Commend Individuals and Groups Involved,Xi Jinping solemnly declared at home and abroad that China has secured a complete victory in its fight against poverty,proposing and defining "the spirit of the battle against poverty".That is a high affirmation of China’s anti-poverty achievements in implementing the "targeted poverty alleviation" strategy in the new era,an epochal continuation of the spiritual genealogy of the Communist Party of China,and a vivid reflection of the spiritual character and value of all the helping forces in society,highlighting the value consciousness and practical power of asking the spirit for the power to alleviate poverty,for the morale to fight poverty and for the outlook to eliminate poverty.The spirit of the battle against poverty is the spiritual pillar and spiritual driving force for the Chinese people to overcome all risks and challenges on the road of poverty,expanding the vision,injecting connotation,opening up a realm and renewing temperament for the Chinese national spirit,and providing a new and powerful spiritual force for the Chinese people to eradicate poverty and build a better life.The spirit of the battle against poverty has profound theoretical origins.Marx and Engels established the people’s position on poverty eradication,elaborated the reality of the poverty problem and explored the governance path to resolve poverty,forming a series of classic discourses concerning poverty governance by Marx and Engels.After that,through the stages of anti-poverty theoretical exploration by Lenin,Mao Zedong and other early leaders from China and the Soviet Union,the theoretical contribution of anti-poverty doctrine in the new period of China,and the major leap of Chinese theory on fighting poverty in the new era,the historical evolution and contemporary innovation of Marxist anti-poverty thought have been realized,providing the theoretical soil and ideological resources for the birth of the spirit of the battle against poverty in contemporary China.The spirit of the battle against poverty has rich ideological connotations.Xi Jinping made a scientific condensed and theoretical summary with 24 words such as "concentricity from top to bottom,playing with the utmost strength,precision and pragmatism,pioneering and innovating,overcoming difficulties,and living up to the people".Among them,"concentricity from top to bottom" points to the great strength of unity,making the Party’s leadership strong and powerful,governments at all levels fulfill their duties,all social forces participate,and the grassroots masses hard and practical work;"playing with the utmost strength" points to the input of power,doing a good job of dispatching an excellent first secretary in the village,strengthening and stabilizing the grass-roots leadership team,enriching the power of grass-roots poverty alleviation specialists and special teams of experts in science and technology to alleviate poverty;"precision and pragmatism" points to a scientific strategy,with a view to developing social production to increase the income of the poor,building housing projects to allow the poor to own a house,developing culture and education to open up the people’s wisdom,improving livelihood protection to support the basic life,and promoting basic construction to improve village conditions;"pioneering and innovating" points to the practical character,insisting on the interaction between top-level design and grassroots exploration,the combination of overall promotion and key breakthroughs,the unification of the speed of poverty reduction and the quality of poverty eradication,and the convergence of consolidation of achievements and rural revitalization;"overcoming difficulties" points to the hard battle style,focusing on the mental state of tenacious struggle of poverty alleviation cadres,the excellent skills tempered by bathing in fire and the guarantee of a clear style of reward and punishment;"living up to the people" points to the realm of selflessness,highlighting the ideological,emotional and interest realm of the Communists in fighting a decisive battle to get rid of poverty.The spirit of the battle against poverty has an inherent mechanism of generation.The spirit of the battle against poverty is not water without source,wood without foundation or achieved overnight,but has an inherent evolutionary logic and driving force,guided by the goal of China’s strategic will to eradicate absolute poverty,nurtured by the culture of the great poverty alleviation pattern of the whole society,and forged by the practice of the great struggle against poverty with Chinese characteristics,.In terms of goal guidance,poverty is a major global challenge for mankind,overcoming poverty is the millennium long cherished wish of the Chinese nation,eliminating poverty is the essential requirement of socialism,and getting rid of poverty is the mission of the Chinese Communists.In terms of cultural nurture,the Chinese nation has always had the traditional virtue of helping those in need,the core value of socialism working together,and the spirit of unity and mutual assistance of rural collectivism.In terms of practice forging,it has gone through several development stages such as leveraging poverty alleviation through agricultural system reform,developmental poverty alleviation through comprehensive national deployment,participatory poverty alleviation through special program implementation,and precise poverty alleviation through comprehensive poverty eradication.The spirit of the battle against poverty has profound value implications.Its theoretical contribution lies in thickening the spiritual underpinnings of Marxist anti-poverty thought,enriching the contemporary connotation of the spiritual genealogy of the Chinese Communists and promoting the innovative development of the outstanding values of the Chinese nation.Its practical implication lies in leading the fight against poverty to achieve historic achievements,realizing the spiritual initiative of the Chinese nation against poverty and helping promote the new journey of comprehensive rural revitalization.Its world significance is that it demonstrates the charm of "Chinese values" in poverty alleviation,highlights the great power of "Chinese solutions" in fighting poverty and shows the spiritual power of "Chinese contributions".The vitality of the spirit of the battle against poverty lies in its promotion and practice.Facing the main battlefield of rural revitalization in the new era,promoting the effective connection between consolidating and expanding the results of poverty eradication and rural revitalization,vigorously promoting the spirit of the battle against poverty,we should adhere to putting education and guidance in the first place,to motivate the rural masses,helping cadres and social forces to make comprehensive efforts;We should adhere to creating an environment as a necessary guarantee,to create a public opinion environment for telling the story of China’s war on poverty,a social environment for the people to help the needy,and an activity environment for poverty alleviation festivals and honorary recognition;We should adhere to the practice cultivation as the purpose,letting the rural masses follow the footsteps of the role model to get rid of poverty and get rich,continuously enhancing the village governance level of village "two committees" cadres,comprehensively improving the helping ability of helping cadres and guiding social forces to actively participate in rural work.