Different ethnic groups making progress together
Original, GPIG, 03-20-2018
China is a multi-ethnic country. Due to historical, social and natural factors, quite a few areas inhabited by ethnic minorities have an underdeveloped economy and backward society. For that reason, the Chinese government attaches great importance to the development-oriented poverty reduction work in impoverished areas inhabited by ethnic minorities. In addition to giving various preferential support to establish poverty reduction standards, policies, measures and funds, the central government also took special steps to support ethnic minorities. For example, in the process of mobilizing and organizing eastern coastal provinces and cities, Party and government organs at all levels and all social sectors were encouraged to participate in the development-oriented poverty reduction program in impoverished areas inhabited by ethnic minorities. This was an attempt to make a joint effort to lift them out of poverty, which contributes a lot to the collective development of the 56 ethnicities in China.
From 2002 to 2011, in addition to allocating 8,748 million yuan as special funds for the development in ethnic minorities, the central government constantly increased investments in poverty reduction programs in five ethnic minority autonomous regions including Ningxia, Guangxi, Xinjiang, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia and in three provinces including Guizhou, Yunnan and Qinghai where ethnic minorities are concentrated. Funds appropriated by the central government for poverty reduction programs increased from 3.8 billion yuan in 2002 to 11.3 billion yuan in 2011, and the accumulative investment reached 62 billion yuan over these ten years.
In 2011, 120 border counties, including those in western China, were incorporated in the Program to Develop Border Areas and Improve the Lives of the People There. In the planning stages for whole village advancement, 34,000 impoverished villages in seven provinces with a large number of ethnic minorities (Tibet excluded) were covered in the poverty reduction program, accounting for 22.9 percent of the total number of the state’s impoverished villages; and 200 impoverished villages and towns in Tibet were included in this program.
Through those efforts, the number of low income households decreased from 30.768 million yuan in 2001 to 10.34 million yuan in 2010 in the eight provinces with a large number of ethnic minorities; the per capita income of farmers increased from 1,219 yuan in 2002 to 3,131.3 yuan in 2010 in key counties inhabited by ethnic minorities. The Chinese government made remarkable achievements in development-oriented poverty reduction programs towards ethnic minorities and made a positive contribution for national unity and progress.
Original, GPIG, 03-20-2018
China is a multi-ethnic country. Due to historical, social and natural factors, quite a few areas inhabited by ethnic minorities have an underdeveloped economy and backward society. For that reason, the Chinese government attaches great importance to the development-oriented poverty reduction work in impoverished areas inhabited by ethnic minorities. In addition to giving various preferential support to establish poverty reduction standards, policies, measures and funds, the central government also took special steps to support ethnic minorities. For example, in the process of mobilizing and organizing eastern coastal provinces and cities, Party and government organs at all levels and all social sectors were encouraged to participate in the development-oriented poverty reduction program in impoverished areas inhabited by ethnic minorities. This was an attempt to make a joint effort to lift them out of poverty, which contributes a lot to the collective development of the 56 ethnicities in China.
From 2002 to 2011, in addition to allocating 8,748 million yuan as special funds for the development in ethnic minorities, the central government constantly increased investments in poverty reduction programs in five ethnic minority autonomous regions including Ningxia, Guangxi, Xinjiang, Tibet, and Inner Mongolia and in three provinces including Guizhou, Yunnan and Qinghai where ethnic minorities are concentrated. Funds appropriated by the central government for poverty reduction programs increased from 3.8 billion yuan in 2002 to 11.3 billion yuan in 2011, and the accumulative investment reached 62 billion yuan over these ten years.
In 2011, 120 border counties, including those in western China, were incorporated in the Program to Develop Border Areas and Improve the Lives of the People There. In the planning stages for whole village advancement, 34,000 impoverished villages in seven provinces with a large number of ethnic minorities (Tibet excluded) were covered in the poverty reduction program, accounting for 22.9 percent of the total number of the state’s impoverished villages; and 200 impoverished villages and towns in Tibet were included in this program.
Through those efforts, the number of low income households decreased from 30.768 million yuan in 2001 to 10.34 million yuan in 2010 in the eight provinces with a large number of ethnic minorities; the per capita income of farmers increased from 1,219 yuan in 2002 to 3,131.3 yuan in 2010 in key counties inhabited by ethnic minorities. The Chinese government made remarkable achievements in development-oriented poverty reduction programs towards ethnic minorities and made a positive contribution for national unity and progress.
