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Ecological poverty alleviation goals and tasks have been fully completed, helping more than 20 million poor people achieve poverty alleviation and increase incomes.
The State Council Information Office today held a press conference to present the status and main results of ecological poverty alleviation. Li Chunliang, deputy director of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, said that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the National Forestry and Grass Administration has vigorously promoted ecological compensation for poverty alleviation, greening of the land and poverty alleviation from green industry. It has fully completed the ecological poverty alleviation goals and tasks and has assisted more than 20 million. Poor people have alleviated poverty and increased their income.
It is understood that in terms of ecological compensation and poverty alleviation, since 2016, the National Forest and Herb Administration, in conjunction with the Ministry of Finance and the Office of Poverty Alleviation of the State Council, has selected and contracted a total of 1,102 million ecological workers among the population affected by poverty in 22 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities of the central and western regions. Forest rangers have helped more than 3 million poor people lift themselves out of poverty and increase their income. Nearly 900 million acres of forest and pasture resources have been managed and protected, effectively protecting forests, grasslands, wetlands, sand, and other forest and pasture resources, achieving a mutual benefit of ecological protection, poverty alleviation and increased income. .
In terms of alleviating poverty through greening the land, the central and western regions lean towards the central and western regions on key ecological engineering projects, such as the protection of natural forest resources and financing agreements. Since the launch of a new round of return of agricultural land to forests and rangelands in 2014, all tasks have been assigned to the central and western regions, totaling 74.5 million mu. 22 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities of the central and western regions established a total of 23,000 professional cooperatives (teams) for poverty alleviation and afforestation (pasture planting), attracting more than 1.6 million registered poor to participate in the construction of green projects, with an average annual income increase of more than 3,000 yuan.
In terms of poverty alleviation through organic industry, we strongly support the development of woody oilseed plants such as Camellia oleifera, ecotourism and forest conservation, underground economy, bamboo and rattan, seedlings and flowers, and other ecological industries, and we promote the “company + cooperative + base + poor households” model and lead 1600 Thousands of poor people came out of poverty and increased their income.
Yan Zhen, director of the Poverty Alleviation Office of the State Administration of Forestry and Grassland and director of the Department of Planning and Finance, said that the State Administration of Forestry and Grassland has established a number of professional cooperatives for afforestation and plantation of pastures to organize the poor to participate in green building, such as greening the land. During the establishment of the cooperative, the minimum proportion of the poor population and the standard of remuneration were defined. By organizing afforestation efforts, professional cooperatives were inclined to allow the poor to earn the corresponding income through participation in greening the country, caring for the forests, and ecologically managing, thus achieving green growth. The organic unity of increasing income, protecting forests and alleviating poverty.
“During the period of the ‘XIII Five-Year Plan’, the effect of ecotourism on poverty alleviation was very obvious. In 2018, the number of registered poverty-affected households and 1,475 million people in the country who increased income to through forest tourism it reached 465,000 households and 1,475 million, and the number of beneficiaries accounted for 9% of the poor. Income increased by RMB 5,500. ” Huang Caiyi, spokesman for the State Administration of Forestry and Grasslands and director of the Publicity Center, revealed that during the period of the XIII Five-Year Plan, the number of forest tourism tourists reached 6 billion and the annual average of tourists was 1 , 5 billion, with an annual growth rate of 15%.
Li Chunliang said that during the “XIV Five Year Plan” period, the National Forest and Herb Administration will adjust and optimize the ecological poverty alleviation policy, focusing on the following three aspects: First, maintain the continuity and stability of the policy . Through the promulgation of guidelines to consolidate the effective connection between the results of ecological poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, and in accordance with the “four no harvest” principles of poverty alleviation without responsibility, poverty alleviation policies , poverty alleviation without assistance and poverty alleviation without supervision, the ecology will be maintained during the transition period. The stability of the ranger policy and the optimization and continuation of the key policies in support of the green project will help people who have been lifted out of poverty do not return to poverty and the marginalized do not become poor.
The second is to create a beautiful landscape. In the implementation of the main projects for the protection and restoration of ecological systems, we will continue to provide preferential support to poverty alleviation areas within the planned scope, we will coordinate the promotion of the management of landscapes, forests, fields, lakes and pasture systems, We will implement rural greening and beautification actions, and we will continue to absorb people who can lift themselves out of poverty to participate in the work. Discover ecological beauty and enrich people.
The third is to promote the prosperity of the industry. Focusing on expanding the scale, variety, adjusting the structure, reducing costs, improving quality and expanding the market to fully exploit the development potential and comparative advantages of the forestry and forestry industry. pastures, improve the supply capacity of high-quality organic products and promote the formation of distinctive and sustainable green industries in areas of poverty. The system helps more poor people to increase their income in the long term. (Economic Daily reporter Huang Junyi)
