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The disabled form a special social group in
straitened circumstances. Currently, there are over 60 million disabled in
China, accounting for approximately five percent of the total population.
Of them, 80 percent live in the rural areas, and a large number live in
poverty due to their own disability and the influence of the external
environment. It is estimated that in 1992 there were about 20 million
impoverished disabled people in China. Among the disabled poor in the
rural areas, 30 percent lived in the 592 state-designated impoverished
counties. The Chinese Government has all along attached great importance
to and shown concern about poverty alleviation for the disabled, and has
adopted a series of effective measures in this regard:
-Making poverty alleviation for the disabled an
important part of the state's poverty alleviation program. The state makes
unified arrangements to implement poverty alleviation work for the
disabled. Both the Outline of the Work for the Disabled in China During
the Eighth Five-Year Plan Period and the Outline of the Work for the
Disabled in China During the Ninth Five-Year Plan Period approved by the
Chinese Government contain coordinated implementation schemes for poverty
alleviation for the disabled. In 1998, the state specially formulated the
Priority Poverty Alleviation Program for the Disabled (1998-2000) to
ensure comprehensive arrangements for poverty alleviation for the
disabled, fixing the objectives, tasks, methods, measures and policies for
work in this connection. The local governments at various levels also give
priority aid to the disabled, drawing up plans, implementing projects,
ascertaining responsibilities, and providing energetic manpower, financial
and material support.
-Offering special loans to alleviate poverty among
the disabled. In 1992, the state established a special rehabilitation and
poverty alleviation loan to aid the impoverished disabled. By 2000, 2.6
billion yuan had been loaned to such people. In the past year, great
efforts have been made to provide small-amount credit loans for individual
households and persons, which has become a major method of helping the
disabled shake off poverty. In Henan, Guizhou, Inner Mongolia, Yunnan,
Heilongjiang and ten other provinces, autonomous regions and
municipalities, such loans have exceeded 70 percent.
-Strengthening the building of the poverty
alleviation service system of the China Disabled Persons' Federation at
the grassroots level to provide prompt and effective service for the rural
disabled. In March 1998, the Coordinating Committee for the
Disabled-related Work of the State Council issued the Decisions on
Strengthening the Building of the China Disabled Persons' Federation at
the Grassroots Level. Besides, six departments under the State Council,
including the Poverty Alleviation Office, have adopted the Measures for
the Implementation of the Development-oriented Poverty Alleviation
Projects for the Disabled in the Rural Areas (1998-2000), setting forth
the requirements in strengthening the building of the service system of
the China Disabled Persons' Federation at the grassroots level. Through
several years of efforts, by the end of 2000 some 80.2 percent of the
counties (cities and municipal districts) across the country had
established 2,238 county-level service centers for the disabled; and 60
percent of the total townships had set up 28,427 township-level service
centers. A grassroots poverty alleviation service system for the disabled
has taken initial shape in the countryside, providing an important
organizational guarantee for aiding the disabled.
-Choosing suitable poverty alleviation projects and
methods for the disabled. In view of the fact that the disabled have many
difficulties participating in productive labor, stress should be laid on
supporting economic sectors that can directly help tackle the food and
clothing problem for the poor disabled in the rural areas. Such sectors
include crop cultivation, aquiculture, poultry raising, handicrafts and
household sideline production; projects that meet the needs of the
development of the local market economy and coordinate with the local
pillar industries and are well suited to the characteristics of the
disabled; and projects with wide fund coverage and marked results for
individual households and closely related to direct income increase for
the impoverished disabled.
As a result of great efforts made, the number of
the disabled poor in China had dropped dramatically, as evidenced by the
fact that the problem of food and clothing had been solved for ten million
disabled in the previous ten years, leaving only 9.79 million still beset
by this problem by the end of 2000.
Aid for Poverty-stricken
Women
The Chinese Government has paid great attention to
helping rural women shake off poverty. The Seven-Year Priority Poverty
Alleviation Program of 1994 clearly stipulates that further efforts should
be made to mobilize the women of the poverty-stricken areas to take an
active part in the fight against poverty.
In the past year, led and
encouraged by governments at all levels and organizations concerned, women
in poor rural areas have taken an active part in the campaign of "learning
culture and technology, and emulating each other in achievements and
contributions." Numerous women have been taught to read and write, and
some of them have undergone applied technology training and obtained the
title of agrotechnician, and are now playing leading roles in developing
productivity by reliance on science and technology in the poverty-stricken
areas. The biggest women's organization in China, the All-China Women's
Federation, has helped 3.47 million impoverished women out of poverty and
get rich by providing poverty alleviation services, conducting cultural
and technological training, facilitating small-amount credit loans,
organizing labor service transfer and mutual help, and initiating poverty
alleviation projects specially for women.
The state has mobilized all non-governmental
sectors to show concern for impoverished women and support social relief
activities for women in poverty-stricken areas. Such activities as the
Happiness Project to help impoverished mothers, the Spring Buds Program
for supporting girl dropouts in poverty-stricken areas and the Cistern
Project to aid women in the water-deficient areas of western China, have
played an active role in helping rural women to erase poverty quickly. By
May 2000, some 145 million yuan had been put into the Happiness Project,
helping 107,472 people and indirectly benefiting 483,000 people. By July
2000, the Spring Buds Program had raised 330 million yuan to help 1.05
million girl dropouts return to school.
V.The
Aid-the-Rural-Poor Program in the Early Period of the 21st Century
Alleviating and eliminating poverty remains a
long-term historical task for China. In order to quicken the pace of
solving the problem of poverty, which remains unsolved to a certain degree
in certain areas, a meeting on this issue was held in May 2001 by the
Central Government. An overall plan for aiding the poor in rural areas in
the first ten years of the 21st century was worked out. After the meeting,
the Chinese Government officially issued the Outline for Poverty
Alleviation and Development of China's Rural Areas (2001-2010), setting
out the objectives, tasks, guiding ideology, and policies and principles
for work in this regard in the coming ten years. The Outline is another
programmatic document following the Seven-Year Priority Poverty
Alleviation Program for guiding the poverty alleviation work in the rural
areas.
The development-oriented poverty alleviation drive
in rural China early in the 21st century is a rare historical opportunity,
but it still faces serious challenges and problems.
Favorable Conditions
China today is blessed with many favorable
conditions, some of them much more favorable than in the past, in its
poverty alleviation drive. Great attention has been paid to the work by
governments at various levels; support has been given by all sectors of
society; and the cadres and ordinary people of the poor regions are
working hard with one heart and one mind. These are the most important
conditions for guaranteeing the steady progress of the work. With regard
to the objective environment, we have the following favorable
conditions:
-A sound base has been laid for the poverty
alleviation work. After more than 20 years of hard work, the problem of
food and clothing of the impoverished population has been basically
solved; production and living conditions in poverty-stricken areas have
improved by a wide margin; the ability to withstand natural calamities and
develop production in those areas has been strengthened; and we have
accumulated a rich store of successful experiences and found out a number
of effective methods in the practice of the poverty relief work. All these
are helpful to the progress of our future work in this regard.
-The sustained growth of the economy in the future
will quicken the process of the work of poverty alleviation. Practice has
proved that economic growth is the key to solving the problem of poverty.
The coefficient of elasticity of the reduction of China's poverty-stricken
population and economic growth was -0.8 in the 1990s. That means that the
increase of one percentage point of the GDP will reduce the size of the
rural poor by 0.8 percent. In accordance with the state's economic
development plan, China's economy will score an annual increase of seven
percent in the coming five years. So there will be a further demand for
workers, some of whom will come from the poor areas. As a result, the
standard of living in those areas will be improved. At the same time,
along with the steady improvement of the comprehensive national strength,
the state will pour more resources into development and construction in
the poor areas, providing a sound material base for the development of
those areas.
-The economic restructuring is conducive to the
development of the poor areas. At this time when there has been an
increasingly fierce competition in both domestic and foreign markets,
China is devoting major efforts to adjusting and optimizing its industrial
structure. The developed regions, on the one hand, have quickened the pace
of upgrading their industries and energetically developing capital- and
technology-intensive industries. On the other hand, in order to improve
the competitiveness of their industries, they are transferring some
labor-intensive industries to the less-developed areas. The poor areas,
mostly situated in the central and western parts of China, have relatively
rich resources and cheap labor, which place them in a locationally
advantageous position to respond to such transference. It is fully
possible for the western region to import capital and technology, and
accept transferred industries, so as to improve their position in the
division of regional industries and quicken the change of local industrial
structure and economic development.
-The implementation of the large-scale development
strategy for the western region is also helpful for poverty alleviation
and will have a far-reaching influence on the reduction of the
impoverishment rate. The focus of the development strategy is on
quickening the construction of infrastructure, especially the building of
water conservancy, transportation and telecommunications facilities, and
the strengthening of eco-environmental protection and construction. During
the Tenth Five-Year Plan period (2001-2005), a large number of projects
will be undertaken in the western region. In addition, many preferential
policies for the development of the western region have been formulated by
the state, such as the increase of the percentage of foreign capital to be
used by the western region and special state bonds issued mainly for the
development of this region. The construction of a sequence of major
projects and the implementation of the preferential policies will lay a
good foundation for eliminating the backwardness of the poor areas in the
western region.
-Opening wider to the outside world will bring new
opportunities for the development of the poor areas. After China joins the
WTO, the markets of these areas will expand further and open wider to the
outside world, which will be favorable for the development of their
advantageous labor- and resource-intensive industries, bringing more
employment opportunities. Though the existing industries in those areas
may be adversely affected after China enters the WTO, in the long run this
will be good for the transfer of their workers and the export of their
labor-intensive products.
Difficulties and Problems
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