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Hello to the New Good Life

China Today by Zhang Xiao, November 3, 2016 Adjust font size:

Quilts are allocated to poor people and the elderly.

“We are very happy to see that our efforts have paid off,” Chimed Tsering said. “We hope to build Bading into a moderately prosperous village by 2020,” he added.

The recently launched 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020) represents the “home straight” to the goal of building a moderately wealthy society. It’s the first Five-Year Plan after China’s economy entered the “new normal” stage. At a national conference on poverty relief held last year, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged resolute measures to combat poverty in China, urging joint efforts at all levels. Tibet, with its large contiguous poverty-stricken area, faces an arduous task.

Suggestions on Tibet’s 13th Five-Year Plan on National Economic and Social Development was adopted on December 13, 2015, at the eighth plenary session of the 8th CPC Tibet Autonomous Regional Committee. It set the goal of helping Tibet’s remaining 690,000 poor people shake off poverty by 2020. The poverty rate, showing the percentage of the population below the official poverty line, will be curbed to below 5 percent, and the disposable income of poor people increased by at least 16 percent annually.

Relevant departments at different levels in Tibet have made poverty alleviation a top priority in their efforts to achieve the goal of “building a moderately prosperous society” by 2020. Joint efforts will be made to take targeted approaches to alleviate poverty.

At a meeting between the TAR government and the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development held on August 13, 2016, Losang Jamcan, deputy secretary of the CPC Tibet regional committee, chairman of Tibet Autonomous Region, and vice executive director of the Tibet Regional Leading Group of Poverty Alleviation, said: “We will explore targeted measures that are in line with local conditions in Tibet to alleviate poverty, so as to achieve the goal of helping all poor people shake off poverty and of building a moderately prosperous society by 2020.”

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