The Six Highlights of the Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and……

——Focusing on the Six Key Points of the Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Winning the Battle of Poverty Alleviation

On December 7th, Xinhua News Agency was authorized to release the Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Winning the Battle of Poverty Alleviation. As a guiding document for the current and future period of poverty alleviation, it has proposed many practical measures and hard policies to win the battle against poverty, among which the six key points are particularly noteworthy.

Highlight 1: "No hat off policy" in poverty-stricken counties

Decision: Urgently formulate strict, standardized, and transparent exit standards, procedures, and verification methods for key counties in national poverty alleviation and development work. The withdrawal of key counties shall be applied for by the county, preliminarily reviewed by the city (prefecture), approved at the provincial level, and filed with the Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation and Development of the State Council. After the withdrawal of key counties, the original poverty alleviation policies of the country will remain unchanged during the tackling period, and efforts will be made to formulate national assistance policies after the tackling period.

Interpretation: For a long time, due to the many policy benefits that the hat of "poverty-stricken counties" can bring, many poverty-stricken counties are unwilling to "remove their hats", and even there are phenomena of "wearing hats to show off wealth" and "competing to wear poverty hats". After the exit of key counties, the original poverty alleviation policies of the country remained unchanged during the period of tackling difficulties, which can be said to be "helping the horse up and sending a journey", fully considering the actual situation of poverty-stricken counties, and helping poverty-stricken areas steadily lift themselves out of poverty and avoid returning to poverty.

Highlight 2: Filing and registering children from impoverished households for high school and vocational education, exemption from miscellaneous fees

Decision: Popularize high school education, take the lead in implementing exemption of tuition and miscellaneous fees for ordinary high schools and secondary vocational education for economically disadvantaged students from registered families, so that middle school graduates who have not entered ordinary high schools can receive secondary vocational education. Strengthen the construction of secondary vocational schools with professional characteristics and adapted to market demand, and improve the national scholarship funding standards for secondary vocational education.

Interpretation: To alleviate poverty, we must first support intelligence, and to treat poverty, we must first treat ignorance. For impoverished families, raising a child can bring about significant changes in the lives of the entire family. Exempting high school and vocational school students from tuition and miscellaneous fees for economically disadvantaged families who have been registered can help alleviate their academic burden, master their unique skills, and drive the entire family out of poverty and into prosperity.

Highlight 3: All impoverished people are included in the scope of major disease assistance

Decision: The new rural cooperative medical care and major illness insurance system will implement policy preferences for the impoverished population, with outpatient planning taking the lead in covering all impoverished areas and reducing the actual expenditure of major illness expenses for the impoverished population. For those who still face difficulties in bearing their own expenses after payment of the new rural cooperative medical care and major illness insurance, efforts will be made to increase medical assistance, temporary assistance, charitable assistance, and other assistance, and all impoverished people will be included in the scope of major illness assistance, Effectively ensuring the treatment of major illnesses among impoverished populations.

Interpretation: Disease is a natural enemy of humanity, and in some poverty-stricken areas, the proportion of poverty caused by illness or returning to poverty due to illness even exceeds 40%. Implementing the health poverty alleviation project can effectively reduce the burden of medical expenses on impoverished people and lay a solid foundation for poverty alleviation and prosperity.

Highlight 4: Increase "Internet+" poverty alleviation

Decision: Implement the e-commerce poverty alleviation project. Accelerate the construction of logistics and distribution systems in impoverished areas, and support postal and supply and marketing cooperation systems to establish service outlets in impoverished rural areas. Support e-commerce enterprises to expand their rural business and strengthen the construction of online sales platforms for agricultural products in impoverished areas. Strengthen the training of rural e-commerce talents in poverty-stricken areas. Provide support such as network fee subsidies and small loans to impoverished families opening online stores.

Interpretation: In the Internet+era, although some poor areas may not have access to highways for the time being, they can access the "information highway" to push local unique agricultural products to a broader market, so as to achieve local poverty alleviation and prosperity.

Highlight 5: Increase financial investment in poverty alleviation

Decision: The central government will continue to increase its transfer payments to poverty-stricken areas, and the scale of special poverty alleviation funds from the central government will achieve a significant increase. General transfer payment funds, various special transfer payment funds related to people's livelihoods, and central budget investments will further tilt towards poverty-stricken areas and populations. Increase the support of central lottery public welfare funds for poverty alleviation. Agricultural comprehensive development, rural comprehensive reform transfer payments, and other agricultural related funds should be clearly allocated to impoverished villages in a certain proportion. The various policies, projects, and projects arranged by various departments for the benefit of the people should be tilted to poverty-stricken areas, villages, and populations to the greatest extent possible.

Interpretation: Government investment plays a leading and dominant role in poverty alleviation and development. From 2011 to 2015, the central government's special poverty alleviation funds increased from 27.2 billion yuan to 46.745 billion yuan, almost doubling. Although the current downward pressure on the economy still exists, the government's investment in poverty alleviation and development will not decrease, but will significantly increase.

Highlight 6: China Development Bank and Agricultural Development Bank establish poverty alleviation financial business units

Decision: The National Development Bank and the Agricultural Development Bank of China shall respectively establish poverty alleviation financial departments to enjoy tax incentives in accordance with the law. Financial institutions such as Agricultural Bank of China, Postal Savings Bank of China, and Rural Credit Cooperatives should extend their service networks, innovate financial products, and increase credit investment in impoverished areas. For poverty alleviation projects with stable repayment sources, it is allowed to use bridge loans to leverage credit capital investment.

Interpretation: Poverty alleviation and development cannot avoid insufficient government investment alone, and must rely on financial means to leverage more funds. The two major policy banks have set up a series of policy arrangements, including poverty alleviation finance departments, which are expected to bring more "fresh water" to poverty alleviation and development.