Poverty is a common challenge for human society. In 2020, China accomplished on schedule its poverty alleviation target and completely eliminated absolute poverty for the first time over its thousands of years of history - a momentous achievement for the country, and for humanity as a whole.
What is the background of China's victory in its fight against poverty? What is the theoretical guidance for poverty alleviation? How did the Communist Party of China make decisions and deploy poverty alleviation measures step by step? How can China effectively keep its poverty alleviation results while achieving rural revitalization? This book makes summaries by examining one case from each of the five levels: province, city, county, township, and village. It allows readers to understand how Xi Jinping s poverty alleviation ideas are practiced at the village and household levels and how targeted poverty alleviation is achieved.
About Author
Huang Chengwei was born in 1965.A Ph.D.and research fellow, he serves as director of the China Poverty Alleviation and Development Center, the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development and director of the Poverty Governance Research Center of Peking University. He has long been engaged in research and management in the field of development-oriented poverty eradication in rural areas and been involved in major national poverty alleviation research and policy formulation since the 18th National Congress of CPC, the top-level design of the national targeted poverty alleviation strategy, and the drafting of relevant important manuscripts. Huang Chengwei has published over 200 academic papers, such as 'The Outline of Xi Jinping's Poverty Alleviation Thoughts' and 'Guiding Principles of Poverty Alleviation with Chinese Characteristics.' He assumes the role of chief expert for Marxism Theory Research and Construction Project and editor-in-chief of the 'Poverty Alleviation-related Frontier Issues Research Series in China' funded by the National Publishing Fund. He has published several books as well for example, China's Strategies for Targeted Poverty Alleviation and How the CPC Eradicates Poverty.
Table of Contents
Chapter Ⅰ A Miracle on Earth
Ⅰ．China Has Made Remarkable Achievements in Poverty Alleviation
Ⅱ．Unfettered Evolution of Poverty Alleviation with Chinese Characteristics
Ⅲ．Targeted Poverty Alleviation Strategies as the Only Path for Global Poverty Reduction
Chapter Ⅱ The Background
Ⅰ．The Poverty Reduction Situation at Home and Abroad
Ⅱ．The Bottom-line Task of Building a Moderately Prosperous Society in All Respects
Ⅲ．Frontier Issues in the New Era of Poverty Alleviation
Chapter Ⅲ Theoretical Guidance
Ⅰ．Formulation and Development of China's Thought on Poverty Alleviation Since 1949
Ⅱ．Xi Jinping's Thought System on Poverty Alleviation
Ⅲ．Contribution of Xi Jinping's Thought on Poverty Alleviation to the New Era
Ⅳ．The Global Significance of Xi Jinping's Thought on Poverty Alleviation
Chapter Ⅳ Decisions and Deployments：1
Ⅰ．Decision on Winning the Fight against Poverty
Ⅱ．Guiding Opinions on the Three-Year Action to Win the Fight against Poverty
Ⅲ．Theoretical and Practical Innovation in the Fight against Poverty
Chapter Ⅴ Targeted Poverty Alleviation
Ⅰ．Ideological System of Targeted Poverty Alleviation
Ⅱ．Fundamental Requirements of Targeted Poverty Alleviation
Ⅲ．Approaches to Advancing Targeted Poverty Alleviation
Ⅳ．Targeted Poverty Alleviation： China's Practice
Chapter Ⅵ Typical Cases
Ⅰ．Guizhou： A Provincial Model of Poverty Alleviation
Ⅱ．Guangyuan City： Approaches to Tackling Regional Poverty
Ⅲ．Lankao County： Approaches to Poverty Alleviation in a Poverty-stricken County
Ⅳ．Minning Town： Poverty Alleviation through Cooperation between China's Western and Eastern Regions
Ⅴ．Shibadong Village： A Model Village for Targeted Poverty Alleviation
Chapter Ⅶ Prospects
Ⅰ．Securing a Decisive Victory in Fighting against Poverty
Ⅱ．Relative Poverty in China after the Battle against Poverty
Ⅲ．China Poverty Reduction Strategy toward 2030
Epilogue
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Preface
Poverty is a chronic disease amid the development of human societ-ies,a common challenge faced by the world for a long time.In the new era of a tenacious battle against poverty of unprecedented scale and in-fluence,China has made great progress in tackling poverty,significantly improving the pfoduction and living conditions of impoverished areas and people nationwide,with multi-layered,far-reaching significance and influence.In 2020,China has accomplished on schedule its poverty al-leviation target and completely eliminated absolute poverty for the first time over its thousands of years of history-a significant victory that has impressed the Chinese nation,even humanity,that it will go down in his-tory.
This book takes XiJinping's discourse on poverty alleviation as the main line,expounding his ideological system on poverty alleviation from a theoretical perspecuve before systematically analyzing how his thought has been guiding the top-level design and practice of China's poverty al-leviation and eventuaLly leading to remarkable advances in the country's poverty reduction cause.The book consists of seven chapters,with each demonstrating the theory and practice of China's poverty alleviation from a unique perspective,offering a full window into Chinese wisdom of alleviating poverty to help the reader better understand Xi Jinping's exposition on poverty aU.eviation,the poverty reducUon approach with Chinese characteristics,and China's battle against poverty in a new era.
Chapter Ⅰ: A Miracle on Earth.It outlines the remarkable achieve-ments made by China in poverty alleviation,and explains the process and evolution of China's approach of poverty reduction with Chinese char-acteristics.UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres's remark 'targeted poverty reduction strategies are the only way to eradicate poverty across the globe' is a proof of the international commuruty's recognition of the targeted poverty alleviation strategy.
Chapter Ⅱ: The Background.It munly describes the formation of Xi Jinping's discourse on poverty alleviation,as well as the background of the CPC Centfal Committee's efforts to win the battle against pover-ty,including the domestic and internaUonal poverty reduction situations at the time,and the reasons for poverty reduction as the foundation for building a modefately prosperous society in all respects,before analyzing the inevitability in the era of poverty alleviation from a rational perspec-tive of 'frontier issues in the fight against poverty in a new era.'
Chapter Ⅲ: Theoretical Guidance.A great practice is always carried out under the guidance of great ideas.This chapter focuses on Xi Jinping's ideological system on poverty alleviation by analyzing the theoretical origin of this great thought,and systematically interpreting Xi Jinping's ideological system,contributions and its meaning to the wodd.
