Why we encourage non-governmental sectors to participate in?
Original, , 02-02-2016
On the eighteenth session of the National People's Congress, Chinese government make the ultimate goal of poverty reduction clear, according to the background report for the 2015Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum. Non-governmental sectors’ participating, which has the extremely vital significance on the issue of poverty reduction, the building of a well-off society, and the modernization of governance capacity.
(1)Non-governmental sectors’ participating is an important component of the poverty reduction road with Chinese characteristics
In the last decades, poverty reduction leaded by Chinese has made remarkable achievements and formed a road with Chinese characteristics. The overall framework of poverty reduction and development can be summarized as "the trinity" poverty reduction pattern, including Specialized institutions for poverty alleviation, other ministries efforts for poverty reduction and non-governmental sectors’ participating. Generally speaking, the Whole-society efforts to poverty reduction refers to several concrete mechanisms, including sited poverty reduction by ministries at central government level, Collaboration relationship between the East province and their West counterparts, international poverty reduction collaborations, and social organization’s participating. In the past ten years, more and more non-governmental forces actively joined the poverty alleviation fields, and have become one of the important engine to improve the economic situation in poor area and the living standards of the poor. However, we must admit that the potential in this field is not sufficient exploited. In the new stage, we should further tap latent potential of this field by continuous system and mechanism innovation.
(2) It is an important way to realize the ideal of a Well-off Society
The general secretary of CCP, Xi Jinping stressed at the eighteenth session of the National People's Congress that, if the people stayed impoverished, it is not socialism, we should make great efforts to battle poverty, to end the long-term poverty, to improve the masses life, otherwise we cannot say the superiority of the socialism.[ ] In order to build a comprehensive well-off society, the most difficult and onerous tasks in the rural areas, especially in poor areas. Without moderate prosperity in the rural, especially without moderate prosperity in the poor areas, there is no way to build a well-off society. [ ] How to realize the ideal of the well-off society in poor areas? Mobilizing social forces to participate in poverty reduction is a most effective way. Because the Whole-society efforts to poverty reduction would make the development share with poor masses more and fairer, which could promote the poverty reduction career faster and better. Certainly, the Whole-society efforts to poverty reduction in China is still in the initial stage at present, we cannot achieve overnight. Complexity, difficulty, and long-term objectively demand the Whole-society efforts to poverty reduction to overcome short-term behavior and to consistently promote it.
(3)The Whole-society efforts to poverty reduction is the internal requirements to improve the national governance capabilities
The joint efforts of government and non-governmental sectors is an important features of the poverty reduction road with Chinese characteristics. In the past, in order to push the poverty reduction programs forward, Chinese government formed a framework to combine the efforts from Specialized institutions for poverty alleviation, other ministries efforts for poverty reduction and non-governmental sectors’ participating. Recent years, non-governmental sectors developed fast and more actively get involved into poverty alleviation. We had established the grant goal to build a well-off society in all respects, stressing to promote rural poverty in-depth, which illustrate the importance of mobilizing and organizing social forces to participate in poverty alleviation and development. [ ] Look back over the past 20 years, it is not hard to find that China's poverty reduction and development gets ahead because of constantly improving the understanding of poverty, and adjusting existing poverty alleviation policies. Through the combination of specialized institutions for poverty alleviation, other ministries efforts for poverty reduction and non-governmental sectors’ participating, the poor area developed fast. In the process of improving the large pattern of poverty reduction, we need to consider the boundary among the government, market and society which means that government should take his responsibility without excessive intervention. Through the policy guidance and institutional mechanisms, the stimulation of corporate social responsibility, expand social enterprise survival and development of space, eliminate social organizations to participate in the development of the system and mechanism obstacles, so as to give full play to the enterprise organization and social organization in the development of poverty. Therefore, the Whole-society efforts to poverty reduction is one of the important embodiment of promoting the modernization of nation governance which can adjust the structure of China's poor governance system, improve the effectiveness of governance.
Original, , 02-02-2016
On the eighteenth session of the National People's Congress, Chinese government make the ultimate goal of poverty reduction clear, according to the background report for the 2015Global Poverty Reduction and Development Forum. Non-governmental sectors’ participating, which has the extremely vital significance on the issue of poverty reduction, the building of a well-off society, and the modernization of governance capacity.
(1)Non-governmental sectors’ participating is an important component of the poverty reduction road with Chinese characteristics
In the last decades, poverty reduction leaded by Chinese has made remarkable achievements and formed a road with Chinese characteristics. The overall framework of poverty reduction and development can be summarized as "the trinity" poverty reduction pattern, including Specialized institutions for poverty alleviation, other ministries efforts for poverty reduction and non-governmental sectors’ participating. Generally speaking, the Whole-society efforts to poverty reduction refers to several concrete mechanisms, including sited poverty reduction by ministries at central government level, Collaboration relationship between the East province and their West counterparts, international poverty reduction collaborations, and social organization’s participating. In the past ten years, more and more non-governmental forces actively joined the poverty alleviation fields, and have become one of the important engine to improve the economic situation in poor area and the living standards of the poor. However, we must admit that the potential in this field is not sufficient exploited. In the new stage, we should further tap latent potential of this field by continuous system and mechanism innovation.
(2) It is an important way to realize the ideal of a Well-off Society
The general secretary of CCP, Xi Jinping stressed at the eighteenth session of the National People's Congress that, if the people stayed impoverished, it is not socialism, we should make great efforts to battle poverty, to end the long-term poverty, to improve the masses life, otherwise we cannot say the superiority of the socialism.[ ] In order to build a comprehensive well-off society, the most difficult and onerous tasks in the rural areas, especially in poor areas. Without moderate prosperity in the rural, especially without moderate prosperity in the poor areas, there is no way to build a well-off society. [ ] How to realize the ideal of the well-off society in poor areas? Mobilizing social forces to participate in poverty reduction is a most effective way. Because the Whole-society efforts to poverty reduction would make the development share with poor masses more and fairer, which could promote the poverty reduction career faster and better. Certainly, the Whole-society efforts to poverty reduction in China is still in the initial stage at present, we cannot achieve overnight. Complexity, difficulty, and long-term objectively demand the Whole-society efforts to poverty reduction to overcome short-term behavior and to consistently promote it.
(3)The Whole-society efforts to poverty reduction is the internal requirements to improve the national governance capabilities
The joint efforts of government and non-governmental sectors is an important features of the poverty reduction road with Chinese characteristics. In the past, in order to push the poverty reduction programs forward, Chinese government formed a framework to combine the efforts from Specialized institutions for poverty alleviation, other ministries efforts for poverty reduction and non-governmental sectors’ participating. Recent years, non-governmental sectors developed fast and more actively get involved into poverty alleviation. We had established the grant goal to build a well-off society in all respects, stressing to promote rural poverty in-depth, which illustrate the importance of mobilizing and organizing social forces to participate in poverty alleviation and development. [ ] Look back over the past 20 years, it is not hard to find that China's poverty reduction and development gets ahead because of constantly improving the understanding of poverty, and adjusting existing poverty alleviation policies. Through the combination of specialized institutions for poverty alleviation, other ministries efforts for poverty reduction and non-governmental sectors’ participating, the poor area developed fast. In the process of improving the large pattern of poverty reduction, we need to consider the boundary among the government, market and society which means that government should take his responsibility without excessive intervention. Through the policy guidance and institutional mechanisms, the stimulation of corporate social responsibility, expand social enterprise survival and development of space, eliminate social organizations to participate in the development of the system and mechanism obstacles, so as to give full play to the enterprise organization and social organization in the development of poverty. Therefore, the Whole-society efforts to poverty reduction is one of the important embodiment of promoting the modernization of nation governance which can adjust the structure of China's poor governance system, improve the effectiveness of governance.
