China Financial Daily

Yunnan 2.5 billion capital investment to help the poor during the year 600,000 poor people to achieve food and clothing
Poverty Alleviation Office of Yunnan Province to the media briefing today said that the province this year, farmers in poverty-stricken areas and strive to make the per capita net income and per capita food production is higher than the increase in the average level of the province to ensure that the settlement and the consolidation of food and clothing for 600,000 poor people in the realization of the project investment is expected to up to 2.5 billion yuan.

According to Yang, deputy director of Yunnan aohui, the entire village of Yunnan Province, will promote poverty alleviation, the development of poverty alleviation in different places, the training of labor force in 2009 as a government do for the people of the province’s focus on practical and focus on the important 20 inspectors working one. As of June 30 this year, the village has been completed by 1150 to promote the construction of the entire village; poverty alleviation and development project in different places 5798, the transfer of nearly 25,000 people resettled; the completion of the transfer of labor the training of nearly 260,000 people.

This year, the state poverty standard adjusted to 1196 yuan per capita, the Yunnan 5,550,000 people now living under the poverty population, accounting for 13.9 percent nationwide. It is understood that most of the poverty-stricken population in Yunnan Province in the poor living environment, a complex, social development lagging behind the level of the mountain, in ethnic minority areas, border line, the old revolutionary base areas and other places, and the complex factors to the poor.

“To this end, Yunnan Province, has further increased the focus on poverty alleviation and development work in the county, the old revolutionary base areas, border areas of national poverty alleviation and development efforts.” Said Yang Chao-hui, and strive to achieve the end of this year to promote the village the whole village of 10,000 tasks, 60,000 can not survive the completion of poverty the relocation of population in different places, at the same time to cultivate industry as the focus of poverty alleviation and development, and enhance capacity for self-development in poor areas, poverty alleviation and development efforts to achieve a land party to the masses poverty.