1. Targeted Poverty Alleviation:
Dr. Tan Weiping
Deputy Director General
International Poverty Reduction Center in China (IPRCC)
Seychelles, July 3, 2019
Targeted Poverty Alleviation:
Performance and Experience of China's Multidimensional Poverty Governance

2. CONTENTS PART 01 China's Poverty Reduction Achievements
PART 02 China's Multidimensional Poverty Governance: Targeted Poverty Alleviation
PART 03 China’s Poverty Reduction Experience
PART 04 China’s International Cooperation on Poverty Reduction

3. PART 01
China's Poverty Reduction Achievements

4. 01 02 03 04 China's Poverty Reduction Achievements
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with poverty reduction as its primary goal, demonstrated the confidence and determination of the international community in jointly eradicating poverty and achieving common development. As the world’s largest developing country, China has always attached great importance to poverty alleviation and development.
more than 700 million people reduced poverty according to China’s national poverty line.
rural poverty-stricken population was reduced to million by the end of 2018, with the poverty incidence dropping to 1.7%. 01 02
According to the 1.9 dollars poverty line, China lifted 850 million people out of poverty, with the percentage of people living in extreme poverty falling from 88% to 0.7% from 1981 to 2015
China has contributed to over 70% of the poverty reduced across the world, making itself a country with the most people lifted out of poverty in the world 03 04

5. Poverty reduction in China: national poverty line
China's Poverty Reduction Achievements
Poverty reduction in China: national poverty line

6. Poverty reduction in China: 1.9 dollar poverty line
China's Poverty Reduction Achievements
Poverty reduction in China: 1.9 dollar poverty line
0.96
0.7%

7. PART 02 China's Multidimensional Poverty Governance:
Targeted Poverty Alleviation

8. Promoted the socioeconomic development in the poor regions
China's Multidimensional Poverty Governance: Targeted Poverty Alleviation
Since the 18th CPC National Congress in late 2012, poverty alleviation has been included into the “Five-Sphere Integrated Plan” and the “Four-pronged Comprehensive Strategy”（纳入五位一体，四个全面战略）.
Targeted poverty alleviation: critical strategic step to reduce poverty（实施精准扶贫）
In November 2015, the State Council issued the Decision on Winning the Fight against Poverty, making an overall plan for the poverty reduction work until 2020.（坚决打赢脱贫攻坚战）
Achieved the greatest progress of poverty reduction in history
Shaped a povery alleviation pattern characterized by the concerted efforts of the whole society
Poverty Reducation
Promoted the socioeconomic development in the poor regions

9. Targeted Poverty Reduction
Poverty Reduction From 2012 to 2018 in China
Poor population decreased from million to million
Poor County Quit:
Number of poor village decreased from 128 thousand to 26 thousand
Targeted Poverty Reduction

10. Poverty registry system: online database
Distribution of Poor HHs, 2014
Multidimensional Standard for Poverty Reduction:
Eliminate 2 Worries:
Food/Water
Clothing
3 Guarantees:
Compulsory education;
Basic medical care;
Housing security
Size：
128thousand villages；
29 million households。
90 million poor
Update: Annual
Proviences more than 6 million poor:
Guizhou, Yunan, Henan, Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan

11. China's Multidimensional Poverty Governance: Targeted Poverty Alleviation
Targeted poverty reduction : critical strategic step to reduce poverty
By 2020, solving food security and clothing, securing compulsory education, basic medicare and housing.
Farmers income growth rate in poor-stricken areas is higher than the national average.
basic public services are close to the national average.
Eliminate absolute poverty for all rural poor, and poverty-stricken counties, solve regional poverty problem.
1.Set clear poverty reduction goals
Registration of the poor population has enabled China to gather the poverty data specifically from each person, household and village for the first time in history
2. All the poverty-stricken people should be registered in the database system
The “five-batch” policy denotes that batches should be lifted out of poverty via industrial development, relocation, eco-compensation, education, social security.
3. Implement the targeted poverty alleviation strategy
accountability system
policy system
investment system
assistance system
social mobilization system
multi-channel, all-around supervision system
assessment system
4.Establish seven institutional systems

12. 4.Establish seven institutional systems
China's Multidimensional Poverty Governance: Targeted Poverty Alleviation
Targeted poverty reduction : critical strategic step to reduce poverty
accountability system
policy system
investment system
assistance system
social mobilization system
multi-channel, all-around supervision system
assessment system
4.Establish seven institutional systems

13. China's Multidimensional Poverty Governance: Targeted Poverty Alleviation
Accurately support:
Send village work team:
Village work team:
128thousand work team, 540thousand officials, average 3 officials ,stay in village for 2-3 years.
village first Secretary:
188 thousand
VTF must
Analyzes HHs’ demand with HHs
Make development plan with HHs
Coordinate assistance resources

14. PART 03
China’s Poverty Reduction Experience

15. China's Wisdom and Solutions for Global Poverty Governance
Strategy of targeted poverty alleviation
China’s approach to poverty reduction is an anti-poverty path with Chinese characteristics based on our national conditions, active explorations and extensive practices.
Increased financial investment
Intensified assessment and supervision
Party's leadership +
Government leadership
Mobilized social forces in poverty reduction
Aroused the enthusiasm and creativity of poor residents

16. PART 04
China’s International Cooperation on
Poverty Reduction

17. China’s International Cooperation on Poverty Reduction
At the 2015 High-Level Poverty Reduction and Development Forum, Chinese President Xi Jinping said "With the help of the International Poverty Reduction Center in China and other international platforms for poverty reduction, China will provide Chinese poverty reduction proposals, contribute China's wisdom, and promote more effectively the exchange and exprience sharing of poverty reduction among the developing countries ."

18. International Cooperation on Poverty Reduction Is Part of China's Foreign Aid
Medical aid to 69 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and Oceania
Over 600,000 aid workers dispatched overseas
Around 400 billion yuan in aid
Held more than 11,000 training courses, more than 260,000 people from developing countries were trained.
Carrying out more than 5,000 projects

19. The village-level launching ceremony of Project Village in Maymar.
Experience in International Cooperation on Poverty Reduction
To do well in international cooperation on poverty reduction, the key is to win over the hearts and minds of the people.
In recent years, China has been focusing on cooperation on poverty reduction, taking the example of the Model Cooperative technical assistance project on poverty reduction in East Asia, which is being implemented by IPRCC in Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.
December 2018, inauguration of the Model drinking water Project on poverty reduction for the Xianglong Village in Laos
December 2018, the completion ceremony of the Model cooperation project on village-level community activity center for poverty reduction in Cambodia
The village-level launching ceremony of Project Village in Maymar.

20. THANKS Dr. Tan Weiping Deputy Director General
International Poverty Reduction Center in China (IPRCC)
THANKS