Poverty reduction program launched in Yunnan and the Shanyao branch of the Yao ethnic group
Original, GPIG, 03-19-2018
To solve the in-depth poverty problem among the remote areas. Ethnic minority areas, and impoverished areas is the highest priority and also the top challenge of the poverty reduction work in China. Therefore, the poverty reduction pilot project focused on the people in deep poverty in remote areas, ethnic minority areas, and impoverished areas as well as the impoverished population in some hot and difficult areas is always an important part in China’s poverty reduction work.
Those who lived in the 23 natural village in Jinping Miao, Yao, Dai Autonomous County, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture as well as Mengla County and Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province were the Mang and Kemu people. With a total polulation of 3,972, they were directly transferring from primitive society to socialist society after 1949. Living in primitive forests for a long tome, the Mang people and the Kemu people were in dire poverty.
Under the leadership of the state Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, the group in charge of the coordination of work of the development-oriented poverty reduction program towards Mang people and Kemu people were st up to guide the assistance work. To resolve their difficulties in work and living, from 2008 to 2009, the central government allocated 20 million poverty relief founds to launch a poverty reduction pilot project in areas inhabited by Mang people and Kemu people.
The new residence of the Blang people in Yunnan Province
In 2008, a comprehensive support project was launched to benefit the Mang people and Kemu people in Yunnan. Over ten departments in Yunnan successively allocated 176.8569 million yuan funds to the project. Shanghai Municipality and China Sounthern Power Grid took special measures and mobilized all concerning parties to launch 12 projects including infrastructure construction with the purpose of meeting the basic needs of the people, such as food, clothing and shelter, characteristic industry cultivation, science and technology popularization, practical technology training, social undertaking development, and so on. Departments of all levels completed affoordable housing projects in 23 natural villages inhabited by Mang people and Kemu people, benefiting 218 families; built a series of water conservancy projects there as well. Those efforts laid a solid foundation to meet the basic needs of the local people.
“The whole village moved into a new village, and the neighboring villages admire us very much.” “We know how to plant hybrid rice and hybrid corn now; fir wood, rubber trees, amomum tsao-ko and tea trees, we have much to look forward to hereafter”, residents in Niuchangping Village said.
Looking from afar, spacious and flat road as well as exercise yards lay scattered here and there, buildingw with grey tiles and white walls and national features were surrounded by castle peaks and green trees. Stepping into the village, all around houses were vegetable fields, lush fruit trees and colony houses where fowls and livestock such as chicken, pigs, cattle and sheep grew fat and strong.
“Last year, per capita share of grain was 684 kilograms, and per capita net income reached 2,376 yuan in our family. At the beginning of the year, we planted another eight mu of amomum tsao-ko and potato and a season later, we gained 9,000 yuan by selling the potato”, in front of the No. 38 house in Niuchangping Village, Jinhe Town, Jinping Miao, Yao, Dai autonomous County, the house owner Luo Kaiwen said happily.
This was an epitome of the new villages inhabited by Mang people in Jinping County. At present, thanks to the poverty reduction pilot project in special areas, villages inhabited by mang people and Kemu people in Yunnan changed a lot in terms of production and living conditions, exerting an increasingly prominent effect upon the overall coordinated development of surronding areas in deep poverty.
Shanyao was a branch of the Yao ethnic group. Shanyao people mostly lived in remote areas with harsh natural conditions, underdeveloped infrastructure, and backward social undertakings, which were not favorable for the existence and the development of the people. Due to the lack of an income source, all the residents lived in dire poverty and the working and living conditions there were rather backwards.
Since 2010, under the support of relevant state ministries and commissions as well as Shanghai Municipality, a support pilot project was launched in Shanyao. In line with the overall development strategy of “relocating, planting trees, developing education”, three kinds of support methods including “relocating to other villages within the county, incorporating into small towns for development and relocation purpose and conducting support work on the spot or in the vicinity ” were adopted. Around the six projects including “industrial development, infrastructure construction, basic needs for food, clothing and shelter, quality enhancement, ecological environment protection and people’s livelihood protection”, a lot of difficulties were overcome, and all work concerning the development-oriented poverty reduction program in Shanyao gained periodical success.
Original, GPIG, 03-19-2018
To solve the in-depth poverty problem among the remote areas. Ethnic minority areas, and impoverished areas is the highest priority and also the top challenge of the poverty reduction work in China. Therefore, the poverty reduction pilot project focused on the people in deep poverty in remote areas, ethnic minority areas, and impoverished areas as well as the impoverished population in some hot and difficult areas is always an important part in China’s poverty reduction work.
Those who lived in the 23 natural village in Jinping Miao, Yao, Dai Autonomous County, Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture as well as Mengla County and Jinghong City, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province were the Mang and Kemu people. With a total polulation of 3,972, they were directly transferring from primitive society to socialist society after 1949. Living in primitive forests for a long tome, the Mang people and the Kemu people were in dire poverty.
Under the leadership of the state Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, the group in charge of the coordination of work of the development-oriented poverty reduction program towards Mang people and Kemu people were st up to guide the assistance work. To resolve their difficulties in work and living, from 2008 to 2009, the central government allocated 20 million poverty relief founds to launch a poverty reduction pilot project in areas inhabited by Mang people and Kemu people.
The new residence of the Blang people in Yunnan Province
In 2008, a comprehensive support project was launched to benefit the Mang people and Kemu people in Yunnan. Over ten departments in Yunnan successively allocated 176.8569 million yuan funds to the project. Shanghai Municipality and China Sounthern Power Grid took special measures and mobilized all concerning parties to launch 12 projects including infrastructure construction with the purpose of meeting the basic needs of the people, such as food, clothing and shelter, characteristic industry cultivation, science and technology popularization, practical technology training, social undertaking development, and so on. Departments of all levels completed affoordable housing projects in 23 natural villages inhabited by Mang people and Kemu people, benefiting 218 families; built a series of water conservancy projects there as well. Those efforts laid a solid foundation to meet the basic needs of the local people.
“The whole village moved into a new village, and the neighboring villages admire us very much.” “We know how to plant hybrid rice and hybrid corn now; fir wood, rubber trees, amomum tsao-ko and tea trees, we have much to look forward to hereafter”, residents in Niuchangping Village said.
Looking from afar, spacious and flat road as well as exercise yards lay scattered here and there, buildingw with grey tiles and white walls and national features were surrounded by castle peaks and green trees. Stepping into the village, all around houses were vegetable fields, lush fruit trees and colony houses where fowls and livestock such as chicken, pigs, cattle and sheep grew fat and strong.
“Last year, per capita share of grain was 684 kilograms, and per capita net income reached 2,376 yuan in our family. At the beginning of the year, we planted another eight mu of amomum tsao-ko and potato and a season later, we gained 9,000 yuan by selling the potato”, in front of the No. 38 house in Niuchangping Village, Jinhe Town, Jinping Miao, Yao, Dai autonomous County, the house owner Luo Kaiwen said happily.
This was an epitome of the new villages inhabited by Mang people in Jinping County. At present, thanks to the poverty reduction pilot project in special areas, villages inhabited by mang people and Kemu people in Yunnan changed a lot in terms of production and living conditions, exerting an increasingly prominent effect upon the overall coordinated development of surronding areas in deep poverty.
Shanyao was a branch of the Yao ethnic group. Shanyao people mostly lived in remote areas with harsh natural conditions, underdeveloped infrastructure, and backward social undertakings, which were not favorable for the existence and the development of the people. Due to the lack of an income source, all the residents lived in dire poverty and the working and living conditions there were rather backwards.
Since 2010, under the support of relevant state ministries and commissions as well as Shanghai Municipality, a support pilot project was launched in Shanyao. In line with the overall development strategy of “relocating, planting trees, developing education”, three kinds of support methods including “relocating to other villages within the county, incorporating into small towns for development and relocation purpose and conducting support work on the spot or in the vicinity ” were adopted. Around the six projects including “industrial development, infrastructure construction, basic needs for food, clothing and shelter, quality enhancement, ecological environment protection and people’s livelihood protection”, a lot of difficulties were overcome, and all work concerning the development-oriented poverty reduction program in Shanyao gained periodical success.
