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Ecological poverty alleviation helps more than 20 million poor people get rid of poverty and increase their income-Xinhuanet
Xinhuanet, Beijing, Dec. 1 (Wang Ya) The Information Office of the State Council held a press conference on Tuesday to present the status and main results of ecological poverty alleviation. Li Chunliang, deputy director of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, revealed at the press conference that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the goals and tasks of forestry and the alleviation of ecological poverty of grasslands have been completely completed. We are promoting ecological compensation for poverty alleviation, promoting land greening and poverty alleviation, promoting poverty alleviation through green industry and advancing in fixed points. Four main aspects including helping counties get rid of poverty and hatred have helped more than 20 million poor people get rid of poverty and increase their income.
In terms of promoting ecological compensation and poverty alleviation, in 2016, the State Administration of Forestry and Rangelands, in conjunction with the Ministry of Finance and the Office of Poverty Alleviation of the State Council, selected 1,102 million people affected by poverty with work capacity in 22 central and western provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities). Ecological rangers have lifted more than 3 million poor people out of poverty and increased their income. The newly added forest and pasture resources management area is nearly 900 million mu, effectively protecting forests, grasslands, wetlands, sand and other forest and pasture resources, achieving ecological protection and relief from poverty and “win-win” income.
In terms of promoting national land greening and poverty alleviation, the tasks and financing arrangements of key ecological engineering projects, such as the protection of natural forest resources, are inclined to 22 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities ) in the central and western regions. 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, with a total of 74.5 million mu. 22 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in the central and western regions have established a total of 23,000 professional cooperatives (teams) for poverty alleviation and afforestation (pasture planting), attracting more than 1.6 million poor registered to participate in the construction of green projects, and an annual income increase of more than 3,000 yuan per capita.
In terms of promoting poverty alleviation through green industries, on the basis of ecology protection, taking full advantage of the rich advantages of forest and pasture resources in poverty-stricken areas, and vigorously supporting plant development woody oilseeds such as camellia, ecotourism and forest health, underground economy, bamboo and rattan, seedlings and flowers, etc. Industry, promote the “company + cooperative + base + poor households” model, establish a mechanism to link interests with the poor, lift more than 16 million poor people out of poverty and increase income through dividends and labor services.
In terms of promoting poverty alleviation in designated counties, the State Forestry and Range Administration has established a “Special Forest and Range Ecological Poverty Alleviation Fund” to assist designated counties in constructing forest and rangeland projects. industrial poverty alleviation demonstration and organizing industrial assistance, consumer assistance and technological assistance. , Talent assistance, Party formation assistance, 23 outstanding cadres were selected and approved to be assigned to designated counties, etc., to provide full support in terms of project funds, human and material resources. Currently, four designated counties have been lifted out of poverty one after another, and all the poor have been lifted out of poverty.