Study On The Operation Of Poverty Alleviation Fund In China

Poverty is a severe challenge in human society. Poverty alleviation and elimination is acommon mission that should be shouldered by humankind. Poverty alleviation in Chinacovers four stages: poverty alleviation driven by institutional reform, large-scale povertyalleviation through development projects, poverty relief fortification, and poverty relief in theprocess of building a well-rounded and well-off society. Considering that poverty-strickenpeople are mainly centralized in vast rural areas, China has explicitly pushed forward andimplemented poverty alleviation development programs centered on poverty-stricken peoplein rural areas as the top priority. China also formulated and improved some majorfundamental systems and policies, which created macro-environment benefits for povertyalleviation programs. Meanwhile, a set of efficient organizational systems characterized byclear-cut rights and liabilities and sound operation has also fallen into place, whichguarantees the sustainability of poverty alleviation work. The anti-poverty process has beenhastened by successively adjusting the anti-poverty target mechanism, actively takingadvantage of national resources such as domestic and overseas capital, technologies, talents,and experiences, and boosting resource investment. The efficiency of poverty alleviation isalso largely enhanced by the continuous innovation of the poverty alleviation model. Chinaexplores a road of poverty alleviation under the theme “government dominance, societyinvolvement, self-dependence and poverty alleviation development.” This thrust meetsChina’s national conditions and takes economic development as the driving force, thusboosting the capability for self-development of poverty alleviation projects. The “trinity”work pattern of poverty alleviation supported by special funds, industry, and the society hasthus fallen into place. This pattern largely mitigated the situation of poverty-stricken peoplein rural areas and promoted the harmonious development of the integration between cities andcountryside in an efficient manner. It also shifted the mode of relief-oriented povertyalleviation to development-oriented poverty alleviation, from supporting poverty-strickenareas to supporting poverty-stricken people, and from pure economy-based povertyalleviation to comprehensive poverty alleviation. Poverty alleviation results in eye-catching achievements. After more than30years (from1978to2010) of painstaking efforts, thenumber of rural poverty-stricken people with survival problems has dropped from250million to26.88million, amounting to a percentage decrease from30.7%of rural populationsto3.0%. The survival problems of rural poverty-stricken people have been basicallyeliminated.Tai’an City is located in the economic zone of central Shandong, covering an area of7762square kilometers. Poverty-stricken people mainly gather in mountains, lakes, andwaterlogged areas. Investigation outcomes indicated that poverty-stricken people live in harshenvironments, which results in poor production and living conditions. They receive littleeducation and make low income, and only few of their family members can join the laborforce. Under the “highlight key points, grading support, department support, commonmanagement” poverty alleviation guidelines given by the municipal committee and thegovernment, Tai’an City continuously boosts the investment, management, and supervision ofpoverty alleviation funds. The city also strengthens the management means and strictlyadheres to the financial capital management system to ensure specialty (special funds forspecial use), accuracy (well-directed investment), and satisfaction (high outcome). Theseguidelines also work along the ideology of “village as the basis, the whole village as thepromotion target, regional planning and industry development,” and puts measures into fullpractice. By executing project-driving strategies after meticulous planning, actively fosteringunique leading industry with a reliance on science and technology, practicingindustrialization-based poverty alleviation driven by leading enterprises, and carrying outintelligent poverty alleviation by improving the moral integrity of farmers, the city has vastlypromoted the process of poverty alleviation work with remarkable results. However, povertyalleviation work still suffers from insufficient capital investment, imbalanced povertyalleviation work in counties and districts, low precision in poverty alleviation target andunsuitable use of poverty alleviation capital, etc. In light of this situation, the concepts ofconversation and understanding unification were proposed to further enhance povertyalleviation work. A long-term effect of the poverty alleviation mechanism should beestablished on the basis of further strengthening the financial investment in povertyalleviation, mobilizing the society’s enthusiasm for poverty alleviation involvement, and broadening the poverty alleviation capital investment channels. Meanwhile, Tai’an Cityshould prepare fully for the next poverty alleviation planning in order to highlight andachieve balanced development. After mastering the dynamic changes of a poverty-strickenpopulation, the city will be able to establish archive standardization and dynamic targetmechanism to raise the accurate orientation of targeted poverty alleviation objectives.Moreover, the poverty alleviation performance of rating systems will gain furtherimprovements to enhance the management of poverty alleviation capital and projects. Theworking conditions of poverty alleviation will also witness improvements to raisecountermeasures for beefing up the development of a poverty alleviation team.