Poverty alleviation must reach the heart and grasp the crux

"A moderately prosperous society or not, the key lies with the folks in the countryside." On the journey to building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, how to fight the tough battle of poverty alleviation under the new situation, and realize the transition from "blood-transfusion" relief-style poverty alleviation to "blood-making" development-style poverty alleviation that enhances the endogenous momentum of poor areas, recently the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, the Office of the Central Leading Group for Rural Work, and the Office of the State Council Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation and Development issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job in Selecting and Dispatching Outstanding Cadres from Organs to Serve as First Secretaries in Villages," making arrangements for selecting and dispatching outstanding cadres from organs to serve as first secretaries in villages, in order to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on vigorously strengthening the grassroots, promoting comprehensive progress and comprehensive excellence in grassroots development, and on targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty elimination, focusing on dispatching first secretaries to villages with weak and lax Party organizations and to poor villages, to ensure full coverage of targeted poverty alleviation.

A difficult point in the work related to agriculture, rural areas and farmers is poverty alleviation; doing a good job in poverty alleviation and development is also an important part that cannot be ignored in deepening rural reform and realizing the process of integrated urban-rural development. Selecting outstanding cadres to serve as first secretaries in poor villages, so as to strengthen the ranks of grassroots Party organizations and thereby better promote reform and innovation to achieve targeted poverty alleviation. Therefore, as dispatched first secretaries, they bear heavy responsibilities on a long road. First secretaries must integrate poverty alleviation and development with the implementation of all tasks of rural reform, reform and innovate, and blaze a new path of poverty alleviation and development that has distinctive features and more practical results.

Targeted poverty alleviation must help the truly poor and truly help the poor. Accelerating the pace of shaking off poverty and becoming well-off is the purpose of targeted poverty alleviation. When first secretaries take up posts in poor villages, they need to identify the shortcomings in the development of poor villages, dare to gnaw on "hard bones," walk into "deep-water zones," and fight "tough battles"; they must step in the mud with the masses, keep their hearts close to the hearts of the masses, stride out on both legs into thousands of households, and listen to their opinions; open their hearts to each village and each household, and formulate specific plans. Only in this way can a new round of the tough battle of poverty alleviation and development be fought well and the goal of jointly building and sharing a moderately prosperous society in all respects be achieved. First secretaries must thoroughly investigate the situation, ensuring a clear count of poor people, a clear understanding of circumstances, solid measures, and appropriate methods, so that through one policy for each household, targeted assistance, and ideological guidance, the "wait, depend, and demand" mentality of particularly poor people is removed, the attitude of poor people toward active living is reinvigorated, and thus poor people are brought into development.

Targeted poverty alleviation must support industry, and industry must support. For poor villages to truly shake off poverty and become well-off, relying on simple blood transfusion cannot escape the cage of poverty or take off the hat of poverty. If a place has no industry and relies only on relief, the economy will have no sustained source, and next-step development will still have problems. Therefore, targeted poverty alleviation must not only transfuse blood but also pay more attention to making blood. When carrying out assistance work, it is necessary to combine the cultivation of modern industries and the development of characteristic agriculture, take industrial poverty alleviation as a main direction for poor people to shake off poverty and increase income, accurately identify local advantageous agricultural resources, develop local characteristic industries, and realize the organic integration of industrial development and ecological improvement. It is necessary, according to the own characteristics of each region and poor people, to carry out poverty alleviation industry development work in light of local conditions and by categories, promote increased production and income for poor people, improve their qualities, and form a new momentum in poverty alleviation work. On the basis of thoroughly investigating the base figures, it is necessary to implement assistance mechanisms targeted to villages, households, and individuals, so that poor villages, poor households, and poor people have people to help, money to help, and projects to help, truly develop the advantageous resources of poor areas, cultivate leading industries, improve the self-development capacity of poor people, and accelerate local economic development.

Targeted poverty alleviation must help with funds and build mechanisms. Poverty alleviation funds are the "life-saving money" of poor people and also the "booster" for reducing and eliminating poverty, with a role as a weather vane. Innovating the systems and mechanisms of poverty alleviation and development, thoroughly investigating the poverty alleviation base figures, and squeezing out the水分 in poverty alleviation are the foundation of a new round of poverty alleviation work. Therefore, the "precision" of poverty alleviation is reflected not only in the identification of poverty alleviation targets and the use of poverty alleviation funds, but also, through mechanism adjustment, in unifying powers and responsibilities and ensuring supervision is in place, thereby helping to the point and supporting into people's hearts, so that the masses in "old revolutionary base areas, ethnic minority areas, border areas, and poor areas" feel more of the warmth of reform and development.

Therefore, it is necessary to do a good job in registering poor villages, poor households, and poor laborers and establishing files and cards, formulate good assistance plans for the labor force; and do a good job in dynamic management of poverty alleviation targets, timely track and monitor poverty alleviation measures and implementation results, and make targeted poverty alleviation achieve real results.

All great affairs under heaven must be done in detail. Only when poverty alleviation reaches the point and services are delivered to the real place can people's hearts be grasped. It should be seen that selecting and dispatching first secretaries to implement targeted poverty alleviation is an important way for cadres to change their work style and closely connect with the masses, and is even more a major test of cadres' abilities. In implementing targeted poverty alleviation, our broad ranks of cadres must improve the assessment mechanism and establish a normalized and diversified supervision mechanism, so that powers and responsibilities are unified and supervision is in place, poverty alleviation is carried out in the sunshine, and targeted poverty alleviation is truly ensured to be precise in real places and helpful to the point, so that poor people truly enjoy the dividends brought by development and reform, continuously enhance their confidence in the path of shaking off poverty and their conscious action, enhance their sense of gain, and jointly participate in the pace of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects in step with the whole country.