How can this great undertaking of targeted poverty alleviation be carried out effectively?

“Under the new normal, poverty alleviation and development work values precision, emphasizes accuracy, and success or failure hinges on meticulousness.” At present, our city's poverty alleviation and development work has entered the sprint phase of storming fortifications and decisive battle. Whether we can achieve targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty eradication is the key to determining whether we can gnaw through the “hard bones,” win the poverty alleviation battle within a set time limit, and build a moderately prosperous society in all respects.

This also means that the past poverty alleviation methods of “flood irrigation” and “using grenades to blow up fleas” must be effectively changed and reversed. Targeted poverty alleviation requires proceeding from reality, and on the basis of solving common problems well, aiming at poor households, identifying the “roots of poverty,” and using more powerful measures and effective actions to make poverty alleviation work reach the point and reach the root.

In accordance with the requirements of “targeted poverty alleviation,” and in combination with the actual situation of poverty alleviation work in Yidu, the municipal party committee and municipal government emphasized the need to adhere to targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty eradication, and proposed achieving targeted identification, meticulous management, precise policy implementation, and careful assessment in the work, so as to use precision to effectively improve the pertinence and effectiveness of poverty alleviation work. Among these, targeted identification is the premise of targeted poverty alleviation, meticulous management is the key to targeted poverty alleviation, precise policy implementation is the focus of targeted poverty alleviation, and careful assessment is an important guarantee for implementing targeted poverty alleviation.

At present, the city has 8,393 registered poor households, 24,047 people, involving 120 villages, with a poverty incidence rate of 9.4%. In order to earnestly implement the general requirement of “targeted poverty alleviation, leaving no one behind” and resolutely win the poverty alleviation battle, ensuring that the whole city takes the lead in eradicating poverty and takes the lead in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, the municipal party committee and municipal government have established a special working group for targeted poverty alleviation and village-based working groups in all 123 villages of the city, carrying out household verification of registered poor households across the whole city, truly implementing poverty alleviation work to households and to individuals.

For targeted poverty alleviation, the first step is to find and identify the right targets. Only by having a clear and thorough understanding of the poverty situation of every village, every household, and every person can work be carried out methodically. If one is vague and imprecise, unclear about the situation, uncertain about the baseline, and inaccurate with the numbers, how can one precisely identify targets and accurately find the roots of poverty? How can one achieve clear targeting, adapt measures to local conditions, and prescribe the right remedy? Only by doing sufficient homework and putting in sufficient effort in precise identification can targeted poverty alleviation achieve “one key for one lock,” avoiding the pitfalls of trying to grasp everything at once and rushing to seek any remedy in desperation.

To achieve meticulous management, it is necessary to improve the pertinence, flexibility, and effectiveness in the management of poverty alleviation funds and projects, transforming from the government “preparing meals” to disadvantaged people “ordering dishes,” and realizing “private customization.” Based on the actual needs and objective demands of disadvantaged people, specific problems should be solved point by point, precisely down to each poor household or specific poverty problem, so that good steel is used on the blade's edge, avoiding the waste of poverty alleviation resources caused by deviations in management and allocation.

Only by solving problems with clear targets can precise policy implementation be achieved. According to the new situation, new tasks, and new requirements, focusing on the nine key areas of poverty alleviation, emphasis should be placed on nine things: guiding the reasonable and orderly transfer of population from poor areas to cities through the coordinated development of the five major functional zones, promoting employment of poor people through developing characteristic industries and strengthening employment training, vigorously advancing high-mountain ecological poverty alleviation relocation, vigorously developing characteristic and effective agriculture, supporting a group through medical assistance, providing a “bottom line” for a group through the minimum living guarantee system, doing a good job in returning farmland to forest according to local conditions, accelerating the development of agricultural leisure tourism real estate, and effectively solving the employment of college graduates and vocational school graduates from poor families, ensuring that each matter has specific measures, supporting policies, practical methods, and actual results. Only in this way can the living and production conditions of disadvantaged people be improved, channels for increasing income be broadened, stable employment be achieved, and survival be effectively guaranteed. If there are only ideas but no methods, only words but no actions, policies and measures will be difficult to implement, actions will not be pragmatic enough, work will find it hard to produce actual results, policy targeting will be unclear, and targeted poverty alleviation will be out of the question.

For tasks to be implemented and goals to be completed, the guarantee of a careful assessment and incentive mechanism is also indispensable. Only by clarifying task goals and establishing an assessment mechanism oriented toward targeted poverty alleviation and differentiated assessment methods can leading cadres be in good shape and good at taking action in targeted poverty alleviation work, and can the initiative for poverty alleviation be better mobilized and the effectiveness of poverty alleviation be enhanced. The main goals of the city's poverty alleviation and development in 2015 are: solve the poverty eradication problem of 2,500 poor people, launch whole-village advancement in 9 poor villages (including 2 old revolutionary base area poor villages), solidly advance poverty alleviation and development work in 10 key poor villages, support the construction of guaranteed housing for more than 20 poor households, complete ecological migration of 70 people, train and transfer 100 people through the “Rain and Dew Plan,” carry out practical technical training for 2,500 person-times, and strive for the per capita net income growth rate of farmers in poor areas to be higher than the city's average level.

It is necessary to clarify the responsibilities and discipline of targeted poverty alleviation. Departments at all levels should firmly grasp targeted poverty alleviation work in their hands, always carry the responsibility for targeted poverty eradication on their shoulders, and implement the goals and tasks of the targeted poverty alleviation battle in action, ensuring “targeted poverty alleviation, leaving no one behind,” and ensuring a decisive victory in the poverty alleviation battle.

Poverty alleviation is both a livelihood issue and a project of people's hearts. Whether the “military pledge” that has been made can be fulfilled depends on whether the “hard bones” of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects can be gnawed through, and whether this poverty alleviation battle can be won within a set time limit. For a decisive victory, precision is valued, precision is emphasized, and success or failure hinges on precision. Only by adhering to targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty eradication, and putting in sufficient effort on the two words “targeted,” can disadvantaged people take off the “hat” of poverty and truly live a good life.