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China's poverty reduction experience is becoming a public good that benefits the world

2025-11-19   

Eliminating poverty in all its forms and manifestations, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge and an essential requirement for achieving sustainable development. "In 2015, this statement was solemnly included in the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Just five years later, China fulfilled its promise ten years ahead of schedule with a remarkable achievement: all 98.99 million rural poor people were lifted out of poverty under current standards, 832 poverty-stricken counties were lifted out of poverty, and 128000 poverty-stricken villages were removed from the list. This "high score" answer not only marks a solid step forward for the Chinese nation on the road to common prosperity, but also creates a miracle in the history of human poverty reduction with unprecedented scale and speed. The birth of this miracle was not accidental. We are based on the national conditions of our country, grasp the laws of poverty reduction, and have introduced a series of unconventional policy measures. We have built a complete set of effective policy systems, work systems, and institutional systems, and have embarked on a path of poverty reduction with Chinese characteristics, forming the theory of anti-poverty with Chinese characteristics. This path breaks through the path dependence and mindset of the Western poverty reduction model, and contributes wisdom and solutions to global poverty governance through China's practice. How can the path of poverty reduction with Chinese characteristics be achieved? Its foundation lies in the significant advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics in concentrating efforts to accomplish great things. Specifically, it is reflected in strong resource mobilization and organizational execution. Where should money be invested? The strategic focus is clear and distinct. Nearly 1.6 trillion yuan of fiscal funds are being used for precise drip irrigation, targeting the target of poverty alleviation and ensuring that the blueprint is drawn to the end without distortion or deformation. Where are people sent? Party members and cadres charge ahead. 255000 resident work teams, over 3 million first secretaries and resident cadres, resolutely went to the most remote mountain villages and remained at the forefront of poverty alleviation. The mobilization power of "the whole country playing a game of chess and the whole people being united" has solved the "policy suspension" dilemma commonly faced by developing countries, providing institutional guarantees for large-scale, regional and overall poverty alleviation. Adhering to precise poverty alleviation and targeted poverty alleviation is a successful experience of China's anti-poverty efforts. It abandons the practice of "flooding" and simply applying foreign dogmas, and focuses on the stoves, kang beds, and fields of impoverished villagers, reflecting a pragmatic style of seeking truth from facts. This strategy runs through the entire process of poverty alleviation: in the identification stage, China has created the refined management tool of "establishing files and cards". Through the precise identification method of "one entry, two observations, three calculations, four comparisons, five discussions, and six determinations", an information system covering the whole country has been established to ensure that poverty alleviation resources truly flow to the groups that need them the most. In the assistance process, tailor the "Five Batches" combination fist. Whether it's the villagers of "Cliff Village" in Liangshan, Sichuan bidding farewell to the rattan ladder and moving into the county elevator house for relocation, or the young people in Longnan, Gansu selling local specialties in the deep mountains through live streaming sales, they are vivid depictions of adapting measures to local conditions and households, successfully transforming external "blood transfusion" into endogenous "blood making" function. In terms of exit mechanism, we use an "iron ruler" to measure true poverty alleviation. We have established strict income standards and multidimensional indicators of "two assurances and three guarantees", and introduced third-party evaluation and strict assessment to resolutely eliminate digital poverty alleviation and false poverty alleviation, ensuring that poverty alleviation achievements can withstand the test of history and the people. The precise poverty alleviation strategy cannot take root without the coordinated efforts of the government, market, and society in the overall poverty alleviation pattern. It breaks through the traditional model of relying solely on the government or market, and forms a joint force of poverty reduction with the participation of the whole society. One is to "support aspirations before poverty alleviation, and support wisdom before poverty alleviation", focusing on stimulating endogenous motivation. China's poverty reduction practice profoundly demonstrates that it is not only necessary to solve the "pocket poverty", but also to eradicate the "brain poverty" and "ability poverty". One person employment, family poverty alleviation, and increasing employment are the most effective and direct ways to increase income. Taking the "Rain and Dew Plan" as an example, vocational skills training is provided to new labor force from impoverished families, making them the "vanguard" of poverty alleviation and wealth creation, effectively blocking the intergenerational transmission of poverty. This assistance plan has benefited over 8 million newly grown laborers from impoverished families and lifted over 15 million impoverished people out of poverty during the poverty alleviation campaign. The second is to rely on the poverty alleviation cooperation and targeted assistance mechanism between the east and the west, and achieve the goal of helping the rich before they become rich. This mechanism transcends geographical and administrative boundaries, transforming the vision of common prosperity into concrete actions. The "Minning Model" is a model. Fujian has built a modern industrial park on the Gobi Desert in Ningxia with funds, talents, and technology, truly turning the "dry sand beach" into a "golden sand beach" and contributing Chinese wisdom to solving the problem of regional development imbalance. The third is to widely mobilize forces from all sectors of society to participate. Under the guidance of the government, poverty alleviation work has evolved from a national responsibility to a common mission of national participation, from the industrial linkage of "ten thousand enterprises helping ten thousand villages" to the consumption poverty alleviation counters in deep communities, from live streaming sales by public welfare personnel to volunteer teaching in rural areas. This vividly interprets the social assistance concept of "everyone is willing to do it, everyone can do it, and everyone can do it". China's practice has shown the world that poverty is not destiny. As long as the direction is right, the method is right, and the will is firm, weak birds can fly and soar first. China's practice provides an effective path selection that is different from the Western model. Moreover, China is transforming its poverty reduction experience into public goods that benefit the world with a high sense of responsibility. China has carried out approximately 15000 foreign aid human resources development cooperation projects for more than 180 countries and organizations worldwide, cultivating over 500000 talents of various types and effectively enhancing the development capabilities of relevant fields in each country; By implementing zero tariff treatment, China has opened up vast markets for the least developed countries, especially African countries; So far, China has provided development assistance to more than 160 countries and worked with more than 150 countries to build the "the Belt and Road"; Since the Global Development Initiative was proposed four years ago, more than 23 billion US dollars have been mobilized to support the development and revitalization of the global South, and more than 1800 cooperation projects have been carried out, providing effective assistance in solving the development deficit. Getting rid of poverty is not the end, but rather the starting point for a new life and a new struggle. In the process of comprehensively promoting rural revitalization, China's poverty reduction practice is moving from eliminating absolute poverty to alleviating relative poverty and promoting comprehensive development, continuously accumulating new governance experience. In the future, China will continue to work with countries around the world through cooperation platforms such as the "the Belt and Road" to contribute wisdom and strength to building a human society free of poverty and common prosperity. (Xinhua News Agency) Authors: Zhang Chunmin, Wu Huan (Dean and Professor of the School of Economics, Central University for Nationalities, respectively, and Assistant Researcher at the Central Institute for Ethnic Cadres)

Edit:Luoyu Responsible editor:Wang Xiaojing

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