GUIYANG, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- China has achieved the feat of removing all remaining counties from the country's poverty list.
The last nine impoverished counties, all in southwest China's Guizhou Province, have eliminated absolute poverty, the provincial government announced on Monday. This means that all 832 registered poor counties in China have shaken off poverty.
An assessment conducted by third-party agencies earlier this month showed that the overall incidence of poverty in the nine counties in Guizhou had been reduced to zero percent, and the satisfaction rate among locals was over 99 percent, said Li Jian, director of the provincial poverty alleviation and development office, at a press briefing.
The average annual net income of impoverished people in these nine counties has risen to 11,487 yuan (about 1,740 U.S. dollars), well above the 4,000-yuan national poverty line set this year, Li said.
China has vowed to eradicate absolute poverty by the end of 2020. At the end of 2019, 52 counties in the northwest, southwest and south of the country remained on the poverty list.
Earlier this month, all poor counties in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, as well as the provinces of Yunnan, Sichuan and Gansu were lifted out of poverty.
Guizhou, which used to be a provincial-level region with the biggest population of poor people, has lifted more than 9 million people out of poverty since 2012.
"Delisting all poverty-stricken counties indicates China has resolved the millennia-old issue of extreme poverty," said Gao Gang, a researcher with the Guizhou Academy of Social Sciences.
In the new development stage, more rural vitalization efforts should be made to consolidate poverty reduction achievements, said Gao.
Yanhe Tujia Autonomous County is one of the nine counties recently removed from the poverty list. In late October, Chen Maofu, a resident in Bianjiang Village in Yanhe, signed his name on a document certifying that his family had been lifted out of poverty.
"My two sons now work in Zhejiang Province, and are much better off than before," said Chen, noting that each of his five family members has an annual net income of over 10,000 yuan.
The standard of living of residents in Bianjiang stands in stark contrast to that in 2014, when there were 699 registered poor people.
"Poor transportation was the main reason that caused poverty in Bianjiang. The only way out of the village was a narrow footpath near the cliff of a mountain," Chen said.
As China intensified its efforts on poverty reduction over the past years, more roads were built linking the village with the outside world. Even the footpath leading to Chen's house was paved.
As a result of improved transportation, the fishing, chicken-raising and chrysanthemum industries began to prosper in the village, providing locals with increasing income.
With the elimination of absolute poverty this year, China will achieve the poverty reduction target of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 10 years ahead of schedule.
Over the past 40-plus years of reform and opening up, more than 700 million people in China have been lifted out of poverty, contributing more than 70 percent of the global poverty reduction.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has spoken highly of China's success in poverty reduction, calling the achievements "very strong." Enditem
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清零！中國所有貧困縣脫貧
新華社貴陽11月23日電 中國剩余未摘帽貧困縣已全部脫貧出列，取得歷史性壯舉。
貴州省政府周一宣布，最后9個貧困縣已摘帽。這意味著中國832個貧困縣“清零”。
貴州省扶貧辦主任李建在新聞發(fā)布會上說，第三方機(jī)構(gòu)本月早些時候的評估顯示，貴州9個縣的貧困發(fā)生率已降到零，貧困群眾對脫貧的認(rèn)可度超過99%。
李建說，這9個縣貧困人口的年平均凈收入已上升到11487元（約合1,740美元），遠(yuǎn)高于今年4000元的國家貧困線。
中國承諾在2020年底前消除絕對貧困。截至2019年底，中國西北、西南和南部的52個縣仍在貧困縣名單上。
本月早些時候，新疆維吾爾自治區(qū)、廣西壯族自治區(qū)、寧夏回族自治區(qū)和云南、四川、甘肅等地的貧困縣全部脫貧。
貴州曾是貧困人口最多的省，自2012年以來，已經(jīng)有900多萬人擺脫了貧困。
貴州省社會科學(xué)院研究員高剛說:“所有貧困縣出列，表明中國已經(jīng)解決了幾千年來的極端貧困問題?！彼f，在新的發(fā)展階段，要加大農(nóng)村振興力度，鞏固減貧成果。
沿河土家族自治縣是9個貧困縣之一。10月下旬，延河縣邊疆村居民陳茂富在一份文件上簽名，這表明他的家庭已經(jīng)擺脫了貧困。
“我的兩個兒子現(xiàn)在在浙江打工，生活比以前寬裕多了。”陳茂富說。如今，他的五口之家每年人均有超過1萬元的凈收入。
邊疆村居民的生活水平比2014年大幅度提高。該村當(dāng)時有699人屬于貧困人口。
“交通不便是邊疆村貧困的主要原因。唯一出村的路是懸崖邊的一條羊腸小道?！标惷徽f。
中國在過去幾年里加大減貧力度，邊疆村修建了多條公路把村莊與外界連接起來。通往陳家的小路都鋪上了水泥。
得益于交通的改善，村里的漁業(yè)、養(yǎng)雞和菊花種植等產(chǎn)業(yè)開始繁榮起來，給當(dāng)?shù)厝藥砹嗽絹碓蕉嗟氖杖搿?/p>
隨著今年絕對貧困的消除，中國將提前10年實現(xiàn)聯(lián)合國2030年可持續(xù)發(fā)展議程減貧目標(biāo)。
改革開放40多年來，中國7億多貧困人口脫貧，對全球減貧貢獻(xiàn)超過70%。
聯(lián)合國秘書長古特雷斯高度評價中國在減貧方面取得的成就，稱其“十分重大”。（完）
