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Poverty Aid to Go to Minorities
China’s continued fight against poverty will give priority to minority areas, old revolutionary bases, border areas and more impoverished areas in central and western China, according to Gao Hongbin, director-general of the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development under the Ministry of Agriculture .

Meanwhile, provincial governments in the more developed eastern region of China will be expected to take on the work of alleviating poverty in their poorer areas, Gao told a press conference in Beijing on Tuesday.

In November, Gao announced that China had accomplished its goal of eliminating “absolute poverty,” a level defined as an annual income of less than 635 yuan (about $77) by year 2000. The goal was set in 1994, when China’s absolute poverty level was at 80 million and the state launched a “seven-year poverty alleviation plan.”

Tuesday, Gao spoke of future goals including long-term commitments to local economy, intensified rural development, ecological awareness, development of science and technology, education, culture and health – all to facilitate social progress in poor areas and to encourage those areas to keep pace with overall development in China.

(China.org.cn by Guo Xiaohong 06/20/2001)

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