Research On Causes Of Poverty And Anti-Poverty Policy In Hubei Minority Region

Poverty in minority concentrated regions not only seriously impedes social andeconomic development, but also is one of the main elements that cause seriousproblems such as regional conflicts, social instability and environmental deterioration.Wuling mountain area, the location of Hubei minority concentrated region, is thelargest and most populated minority concentrated region across border areas in inlandChina. The region locates in the joint zone of West Development and Middle Rise andfalls into the14special ghetto areas. Hence, with the purpose of ensuring nationalunity and the country’s harmoniously steady development, government of Hubei ethnicminority region will set about settling bottleneck restrictions and prominent issues tocarry out poverty alleviation of Hubei ethnic minority areas and improve the life ofrural households. Besides, the local government will also speed up the development ofthose extremely poor areas to make the residents there become prosperous and set anexample for the country’s poverty alleviation project.Centering on the logics between the economic development of Hubei minorityregion and rural households’ casting off poverty the thesis carries out povertyinvestigations and draws the following conclusions while setting its base on theparticular social background of the region and following the basic goals of accuratelyunderstanding the current situation and causes of the region’s impoverishment andbringing forth new ideas for the regional poverty alleviation policy:（1）In general, the impoverished areas are concentrated and the size of these areas isvast. The immergence rate and recursive rate are relatively high. Besides, the ruralhouseholds are fragile and are likable to poverty regression.（2）Regarding the rural development the rates of the rate of illiterate and semiliteratehave positive effect on poverty incidence, while manpower output, minority population,the rate of owning cultural activity center vice versa, the rate of having clinic, havingtap water and road construction affect poverty incidence negatively. Furthermore,electricity has little effect on poverty incidence. （3）From the living condition of the impoverished rural families, the health rate andthe area of cultivated land per capita affect per capita income positively whereas familyilliterate rate, having drinking problem and entering into insurance and medical careaffect per capita income negatively. Nevertheless, children’s education rate producesno effect on it and the rate of having electricity is not appropriate to be an index forassessment.At present the regional economic development faces with numerous challenges andadvantages yet the poor rural households meet with great obstacles in casting offpoverty and the rural families lead a relatively difficult life. The research proposes theidea of innovating poverty alleviation policy systemly to realize the goal of povertyalleviation including increasing governmental investment and policy favor,strengthening economical vitality, enhancing infrastructure construction, promotingsocial undertakings; driving on industrial poverty alleviation, perfecting characteristicindustrial system construction, setting up labor export strategies, promoting labor forceand relying on economic cooperative zone of Wuling mountain.