2014 is the first year to comprehensively implement the “Notice of the General Office of CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council on the Issuance of the ’Opinions on Mechanism Innovation to Steadily Promote Rural Poverty Alleviation and Development’ “(Zhong Ban Fa [2013] No.25, hereinafter referred to as the”Opinions”) and the first year of precise poverty alleviation in China. Over the year, the CPC and the whole society made joint efforts to accelerate poverty alleviation and development at the new starting point, made a new breakthrough in mechanism innovation, launched the key work and successfully implemented the planning for contiguous poor areas. 

In 2014, the central government arranged special poverty-relief funds of 43.287 billion yuan, up 10% over 2013; and the provincial governments arranged special anti-poverty funds of 26.7 billion yuan, up 28%. The number of rural poor people was reduced from 82.49 million in 2013 to 70.17 million, with a decline of 12.32 million, and the poverty rate dropped from 8.5% to 7.2%, down 1.3 percentage points. The annual poverty reduction task of reducing the rural poor by at least 10 million proposed by the Government Work Report 2014 was over-fulfilled. The rural per capita net income of the key counties for poverty alleviation and development reached 6,090 yuan, up 13% over 2013, and the growth rate was still above the national average. 

The full text of 2015 Yearbook of China Poverty Alleviation and Development is attached: