“Six projects" in Weiyuan, Gansu
Original, , 02-02-2016
According to the 2015 Global Poverty Reducation adn Development Forum, targeted poverty alleviation plays more and more important roles for building a prosperous society in China. Several innovative models have been created in poor regions and many experience have been accumulated. Here are several typical models.
1. Background.
Weiyuan County in Gansu Province is the birthplace of Weihe River which is the largest tributary of the Yellow River, it is located in Central Gansu Province, Dingxi City, and is the "planting basement of potato and Codonopsis. It has several ecological demonstration projects, and also the pilot county for entrepreneurship in west regions. 316 and 212 National Road,and Linwei section of Lan Yu railway under construction all go through this region. The county's total area is 2065 square kilometers with 8 towns and 8 counties, 3 communities, 217 administrative villages, It has a population of 345,000, 322,000 of which are agricultural population.
2. Practice.
According to the requirements of national "the opinion that about innovative mechanisms to effectively promote rural poverty alleviation and development", it released the “The implementation program of Weiyuan County poverty alleviation filling riser", taking innovation mechanism of targeted alleviation and vigorously promoting the pilot projects. Weiyuan County implements "six major projects ", by carrying out the requirement of six targets and making innovation, as well as targeting the objects to alleviate.
(1) Infrastructure construction is the priority. Water, electricity, roads, and house are the focus, the construction of a beautiful village is carried out vigorously, which breaks the barriers restricting the development of poor villages. power network renovation rate reaches 82%, power coverage rate reached 86.7%; building management and maintenance are carried out at the same time, 135 road projects with 478.3 kilometers have completed, asphalt roads have been built in 16 towns, the road solid rate has reached 67.8%; combing with relocation, disaster reconstruction, reconstruction project of dilapidated houses in the countryside, to build 36 centralized resettlement points with 2,694 households and reconstruct 7,500 houses, which takes up 50% of 25,591 planned houses. At the same time, poverty alleviation and development by promoting urban development", accelerating the integration of urban and rural construction, fully support the development of Chuan Zhen, Lin Feng Zhen counties and create Tourism Town of WU ZHU,LU YUAN, SHANG WAN, building two demonstration villages in Yuan Gu Dui and Dian Po, the Urbanization rate reaches 20.43% and the living environment has been significantly improved.
(2) Raise local income by promoting industrial development. Potato planting has been the most important agricultural industry and it aims at building the “first potato planting county in China and cooperate with the International Potato Center, by setting up research institutes, to research new technologies, introduce new varieties. Building one greenhouse with 12,800square meters and 666 greenhouses to cultivate original seeds. Cultivate Chinese herbal medicine to set up a "nationwide well-known Chinese medicine base" and cooperate with Zhejiang Chinese Medicine University by signing industrial cooperation agreement to build planting base and training base, and promote the construction of GAP base in Chinese herbal medicine, and processing enterprises and markets, storage, quality inspection system, and trying to ensure the acreage of planting area around 400,000 acres. Herding and Grassing industry also develop at high speed. There are 510 aquaculture enterprises (District), 1104 household livestock farm, and 12,200 household raising livestock. Besides, there are two slaughter and processing factories with production of 200,000 livestock. The concentrated industrial factory costs more than RMB 200 million, with the coverage of 8.8 square kilometers.
(3) Public service projects have also been implemented. 14 new kindergartens have been built, primary schools have been build in 76 administrative villages. All townships have kindergarten built and the admission rate reaches 72.3%. By investing more than RMB 210 million yuan, lots of hospitals have all been set up in town. In the villages, there are 146 health rooms, 58 culture rooms, 59 comprehensive service center. Villages with these facilities take up 82%, 26.7%, 27.2% respectively among all administrative villages. The coverage ratio of new rural cooperative Medicare and pension insurance reaches 97.12% and 96.9%. The coverage ratio of and subsistence allowances in urban and rural areas reaches 12.8% and 24.5%.
(4) By taking several financial measures to support agricultural projects. There are 8 credit guarantee companies such as the Sheng Ding and Zhong Hui. There are sub-branches of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Bank of Gansu The National Agricultural Development Bank provides 65 million yuan for agricultural reserves, 748 million yuan under special financial loans, 23.25 million from the World Bank. By exploring "mutual trust" fund, 115 cooperatives have been set up with the investment of 21.884 million yuan. There are 60 branches providing financial service to villagers.
(5) Capacity building project. There are training programs for poor households to help them with high skills. 28,000 villagers have been trained every year, including 4,928 participating labor skills training, 2,300 trainees under two-type students, 4,643 with skill identification, and more than 78,000 under labor transferring. service income has reached to 1,080 million yuan., Fiscal funds for training reaches 3.65 million yuan.
(6) Promoting e-business for poverty alleviation projects. Local government invests 3 million each year to support the development of e-commerce and modern logistics industry development, especially for tourism. Implementing the “development of beautiful village for poverty alleviation.” vigorously The development of Weihe source area has been listed as one of 20 key touring plans and it has reached national AAAA level. 31 touring commodities have been developed and 460,000 tourists have been attracted, and creating 180 million revenue.
3.Experience.
(1) Being dedicated is the fundamental factors. Local government, different departments, and local household should all be dedicated in poverty alleviation. Departments of poverty alleviation from the national-level, provincial level, township level, to village-level should explore practical ways for alleviating the poverty. Working groups in poor villages should be set up and tightly connect with local poor. The poor households should be dedicated to finding ways out of poverty.
(2) Government should be engaged in poverty alleviation actively. In 2011, poverty alleviation by special programs, industrial development and social development has been set up. Financial resources have been invested into poverty alleviation. Besides, social resources have all been aggregated to alleviate poverty.
(3)Social resources should take part in poverty alleviation. such as funds from the China Minsheng Bank, materials and funds from both municipal and county-level in Tianjin. Besides, there are cooperation with International Potato Center, and Zhejiang Chinese Medicine University, which are both helpful to build research and development institutions, planting bases and personnel training base. The mutual supporting mechanisms should be set up, such as eastern provinces assist the western, enterprises assist the rural areas, the developed assists less developed, rich villages assist poor ones.
(4) Development ways should be changed according to local conditions. By taking poverty alleviation through local development, Weiyuan County has realized industrial development and poverty alleviation at the same time. Local income can be raised by industrial development, which can be promoted by technology innovation. Under this mode, local government, enterprises, associations, and households all take participate. By making general plan, centralized management, livestock are raised in individual households. Another way is that livestock can be raised all together and individuals can be shareholders. Local sheep farming becomes one important source to raise local income.
Original, , 02-02-2016
According to the 2015 Global Poverty Reducation adn Development Forum, targeted poverty alleviation plays more and more important roles for building a prosperous society in China. Several innovative models have been created in poor regions and many experience have been accumulated. Here are several typical models.
1. Background.
Weiyuan County in Gansu Province is the birthplace of Weihe River which is the largest tributary of the Yellow River, it is located in Central Gansu Province, Dingxi City, and is the "planting basement of potato and Codonopsis. It has several ecological demonstration projects, and also the pilot county for entrepreneurship in west regions. 316 and 212 National Road,and Linwei section of Lan Yu railway under construction all go through this region. The county's total area is 2065 square kilometers with 8 towns and 8 counties, 3 communities, 217 administrative villages, It has a population of 345,000, 322,000 of which are agricultural population.
2. Practice.
According to the requirements of national "the opinion that about innovative mechanisms to effectively promote rural poverty alleviation and development", it released the “The implementation program of Weiyuan County poverty alleviation filling riser", taking innovation mechanism of targeted alleviation and vigorously promoting the pilot projects. Weiyuan County implements "six major projects ", by carrying out the requirement of six targets and making innovation, as well as targeting the objects to alleviate.
(1) Infrastructure construction is the priority. Water, electricity, roads, and house are the focus, the construction of a beautiful village is carried out vigorously, which breaks the barriers restricting the development of poor villages. power network renovation rate reaches 82%, power coverage rate reached 86.7%; building management and maintenance are carried out at the same time, 135 road projects with 478.3 kilometers have completed, asphalt roads have been built in 16 towns, the road solid rate has reached 67.8%; combing with relocation, disaster reconstruction, reconstruction project of dilapidated houses in the countryside, to build 36 centralized resettlement points with 2,694 households and reconstruct 7,500 houses, which takes up 50% of 25,591 planned houses. At the same time, poverty alleviation and development by promoting urban development", accelerating the integration of urban and rural construction, fully support the development of Chuan Zhen, Lin Feng Zhen counties and create Tourism Town of WU ZHU,LU YUAN, SHANG WAN, building two demonstration villages in Yuan Gu Dui and Dian Po, the Urbanization rate reaches 20.43% and the living environment has been significantly improved.
(2) Raise local income by promoting industrial development. Potato planting has been the most important agricultural industry and it aims at building the “first potato planting county in China and cooperate with the International Potato Center, by setting up research institutes, to research new technologies, introduce new varieties. Building one greenhouse with 12,800square meters and 666 greenhouses to cultivate original seeds. Cultivate Chinese herbal medicine to set up a "nationwide well-known Chinese medicine base" and cooperate with Zhejiang Chinese Medicine University by signing industrial cooperation agreement to build planting base and training base, and promote the construction of GAP base in Chinese herbal medicine, and processing enterprises and markets, storage, quality inspection system, and trying to ensure the acreage of planting area around 400,000 acres. Herding and Grassing industry also develop at high speed. There are 510 aquaculture enterprises (District), 1104 household livestock farm, and 12,200 household raising livestock. Besides, there are two slaughter and processing factories with production of 200,000 livestock. The concentrated industrial factory costs more than RMB 200 million, with the coverage of 8.8 square kilometers.
(3) Public service projects have also been implemented. 14 new kindergartens have been built, primary schools have been build in 76 administrative villages. All townships have kindergarten built and the admission rate reaches 72.3%. By investing more than RMB 210 million yuan, lots of hospitals have all been set up in town. In the villages, there are 146 health rooms, 58 culture rooms, 59 comprehensive service center. Villages with these facilities take up 82%, 26.7%, 27.2% respectively among all administrative villages. The coverage ratio of new rural cooperative Medicare and pension insurance reaches 97.12% and 96.9%. The coverage ratio of and subsistence allowances in urban and rural areas reaches 12.8% and 24.5%.
(4) By taking several financial measures to support agricultural projects. There are 8 credit guarantee companies such as the Sheng Ding and Zhong Hui. There are sub-branches of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and Bank of Gansu The National Agricultural Development Bank provides 65 million yuan for agricultural reserves, 748 million yuan under special financial loans, 23.25 million from the World Bank. By exploring "mutual trust" fund, 115 cooperatives have been set up with the investment of 21.884 million yuan. There are 60 branches providing financial service to villagers.
(5) Capacity building project. There are training programs for poor households to help them with high skills. 28,000 villagers have been trained every year, including 4,928 participating labor skills training, 2,300 trainees under two-type students, 4,643 with skill identification, and more than 78,000 under labor transferring. service income has reached to 1,080 million yuan., Fiscal funds for training reaches 3.65 million yuan.
(6) Promoting e-business for poverty alleviation projects. Local government invests 3 million each year to support the development of e-commerce and modern logistics industry development, especially for tourism. Implementing the “development of beautiful village for poverty alleviation.” vigorously The development of Weihe source area has been listed as one of 20 key touring plans and it has reached national AAAA level. 31 touring commodities have been developed and 460,000 tourists have been attracted, and creating 180 million revenue.
3.Experience.
(1) Being dedicated is the fundamental factors. Local government, different departments, and local household should all be dedicated in poverty alleviation. Departments of poverty alleviation from the national-level, provincial level, township level, to village-level should explore practical ways for alleviating the poverty. Working groups in poor villages should be set up and tightly connect with local poor. The poor households should be dedicated to finding ways out of poverty.
(2) Government should be engaged in poverty alleviation actively. In 2011, poverty alleviation by special programs, industrial development and social development has been set up. Financial resources have been invested into poverty alleviation. Besides, social resources have all been aggregated to alleviate poverty.
(3)Social resources should take part in poverty alleviation. such as funds from the China Minsheng Bank, materials and funds from both municipal and county-level in Tianjin. Besides, there are cooperation with International Potato Center, and Zhejiang Chinese Medicine University, which are both helpful to build research and development institutions, planting bases and personnel training base. The mutual supporting mechanisms should be set up, such as eastern provinces assist the western, enterprises assist the rural areas, the developed assists less developed, rich villages assist poor ones.
(4) Development ways should be changed according to local conditions. By taking poverty alleviation through local development, Weiyuan County has realized industrial development and poverty alleviation at the same time. Local income can be raised by industrial development, which can be promoted by technology innovation. Under this mode, local government, enterprises, associations, and households all take participate. By making general plan, centralized management, livestock are raised in individual households. Another way is that livestock can be raised all together and individuals can be shareholders. Local sheep farming becomes one important source to raise local income.
