How can targeted poverty alleviation reach the point and the root

Relocation for disaster prevention and poverty alleviation is a major project. At present, China has 11 contiguous areas of extreme poverty. Whether the poverty problem of the people in these areas can be effectively solved is directly related to the completion of China's poverty alleviation goals during the 13th Five-Year Plan period. In the work of relocation for disaster prevention and poverty alleviation, southern Shaanxi has adopted measures suited to local conditions and to each person, tailored to local circumstances, and one method for each household, opening a feasible path in which relocation drives urbanization and accelerates the realization of new urbanization in mountainous areas. It provides a promotable and replicable model for implementing poverty alleviation relocation in poor areas.

In the mountainous areas of southern Shaanxi, "neighbors are separated by mountains, and people ten li apart share a village." For a long time, development has been limited and income growth difficult, making the poverty alleviation task extremely arduous. A careful study of the poverty alleviation measures in southern Shaanxi shows that one important experience is "precision." Whether in support targets, project arrangements, use of funds, or poverty alleviation results, they all seek ways, take real measures, and pursue real results in "precision." First, measures suited to local conditions and precise implementation. In advancing relocation, southern Shaanxi has clarified standards, strictly followed procedures, precisely identified relocation targets, adopted measures suited to each person and place, and guided relocated people in an orderly, classified way to enter cities and towns nearby or on the spot, thus answering well the questions of "whom to help, who helps, and how to help." Second, people-centered and refined management. They fully respect the wishes of the people, ensure fairness and justice in relocation, strengthen supporting facilities to high standards, and comprehensively provide various services such as education assistance, employment support, housing security, elderly care services, social welfare, and social assistance, which have won the welcome and cooperation of local people. Third, identify the roots of poverty and prescribe the right remedy. They persist in adopting measures according to the causes of poverty and the types of poverty, and adhere to "relocate one household, train one person, employ one person, make one household prosperous," planting the roots of prosperity while pulling out the roots of poverty, ensuring that poverty alleviation achieves practical and long-term results.

What is especially worth learning from is that southern Shaanxi carries out poverty alleviation beyond poverty alleviation itself, with a focus on the overall situation, taking industrial development, full employment, and sustained income growth as linked tasks of poverty alleviation work, and treating poverty alleviation relocation as a systematic project, precisely integrating and advancing it in coordination with industrialization, urbanization, informatization, and agricultural modernization. In this way, not only can the income of relocated people grow steadily and their lives improve markedly, but the local level of urbanization also continues to rise, and the comprehensive social benefits are very significant. A series of innovative measures have enabled poor people to move out, remain stable, and also become prosperous, enabling poverty alleviation to reach the point and the root.