Zuoquan: The On-target Poverty Alleviation Model
p.china.org.cn by Li Fugen, Wei Bo, Wang Qian, June 2, 2017 Adjust font size:
The poverty eradication roadmaps hang in the office of each poverty-stricken village.[Photo by Zheng Liang]
Poverty Reduction the Overarching Task
Information charts – including the status quo, analyses of causes, poverty reduction targets for both families and villages, and the poverty eradication roadmap itself – hang on the wall of every village committee office in each of the 125 villages in Zuoquan registered as impoverished.
The extent of progress in poverty alleviation in these villages is determined by their geographic and economic conditions. “On-target” is the buzz word in Zuoguan’s battle. Thus far, 29,717 people have been designated as living below the poverty line. Helping them rise out of poverty is the overarching task. In upholding the development concepts of innovation, coordination, green, opening-up, and sharing, the Zuoquan government insists on equitable social and economic development.
The undulant Taihang Ranges formed a natural defense in the Chinese people’s resistance against Japanese aggression, but today they hinder communications between local residents and the world beyond. How can this geographic drawback be made advantageous? The forestry industry provides a breakthrough. Zuoquan has made full use of preferrential policies, funds and other relevant resources in this connection. Its afforestation projects now generate jobs for poverty-stricken people, and at the same time improve the county’s ecological environment.