China’s Solution for Precise Poverty Alleviation: The Case of Guizhou

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This book select successful cases of poverty reduction and alleviation in the Guizhou province of China, which reflects the highest number and widest distribution of people living in poverty. The local government seeks to achieve sustainable development goals and find multiple solutions to the problem.. The book introduces local experiences and presents the whole process from policy making to practice. Contents Government-Led Poverty Alleviation Initiatives Bend Over Backwards to Reduce Poverty—How Guizhou Tackles Its Poverty Issue War on Poverty: More Committed Than Ever Poverty Alleviation Through Commercial Development: Awakening the Internal Drive for Poverty Alleviation Poverty Alleviation Through Resettlement: Removing the Roots of Poverty Targeted and Precise Poverty Alleviation: A Replicable and Scalable Model People’s Livelihood is Protected by Enforcing Strict Discipline—Practices and Insights of Livelihood Supervision Main Practices Major Outcomes Important Insights Insight 1: Insight 2: Insight 3: Insight 4: Leverage Liberal Arts to Alleviate Poverty Poverty Alleviation Through Public Opinion Creates an Enabling Environment Poverty Alleviation Through Culture Enlightens and Inspires Poverty Alleviation Through Social Sciences Induces Precise Policies Paired Poverty Assistance Injects Development Vitality Qiannan Prefecture: Succeed in Poverty Alleviation and Enable the People to Feel the Improvement Liupanshui City: A Deep Exploration of Rural Reforms Main Practices Outcomes Review Qingzhen City: Effective Efforts of Protecting Ecosystems for Poverty Alleviation Weining County: Experience and Insights of Targeted Poverty Alleviation Experience: Always Focus on “Who Helps Whom and How” Insight: Only by Pinpointing the Root Causes Can an Effective Prescription Be Written Suggestion: Speeding Up Targeted Poverty Alleviation in Guizhou from Three Aspects Guanling Autonomous County: Making New Moves in Medical Poverty Alleviation Medical Services for Minor Illnesses At Hand Within the Township The Model of Attracting Talents with Innovation Enhances Service Quality Taking Development Opportunities to Carry Out Targeted Poverty Alleviation Industry + Project + Ecology + Intelligence—Road of Poverty Alleviation and Development in Sinan Industrial Poverty Alleviation Boosts Four Aspects of Development Project-Driven Poverty Alleviation Consolidates the Development Foundation of the County Ecological Poverty Alleviation Creates an Enabling Environment for the Development of the County Poverty Alleviation Through Education Improves the Civic Quality of the Poor Enterprises-Led Poverty Alleviation Initiatives “Trinity” Pattern of Poverty Alleviation Creates Synergy Diverse Assistance Leads to Wealth Enterprises Contribute to Internal Drive for Growth Society Helps to Remove the “Mountain” of Poverty Turning External Assistance into Internal Drive for Building a Moderately Prosperous Society—On a New Round of Paired Assistance from Eight Cities to Guizhou Exchanges and Communication for Leapfrog Development Significant Input in Infrastructure Industrial Development Drives Poverty Alleviation Joint Construction of Industrial Parks Brings Mutual Benefit Joining Hands to Achieve Moderate Prosperity by Addressing Weaknesses Rural Credit Programs Facilitate Poverty Alleviation Benefit People in Remote Rural Areas with Accurate Financial Services Improving Financial Services with Innovation in an All-Out Drive Upgrade Rural Credit Program in Keeping with the Times Targeted, Financial and Industrial Poverty Alleviation Go Hand in Hand in Innovating and Upgrading Micro-loan Products Main Practices Deficiencies and Plans for Improvement Guizhou Post Helps Poverty Alleviation with the Long March Spirit Guizhou Post Offers Assistance to New Businesses Guizhou Post Delivers Products Beyond Provincial Borders Guizhou Post Presents Colorful Culture to the Outside World Xingwei Corporation: A Unique Model of Distributing Five Types of Shares Opens the Door to Moderate Prosperity in Xiushui Village New Exploration and New Journey New Projects and New Initiatives New Outlook and New Outcomes New Approaches and New Inspirations Kiwi Fruit Industry Promotes Poverty Alleviation and Increases the Income of Farmers in Liupanshui City Hundred-Li Industrial Corridor with Good Profits and Fantastic Scenery Business Clusters Bring Hope to Poor Households Profit-Rich Businesses Fulfill Fruit Farmers’ Dream of Moderate Prosperity Qiannan Rural Credit Cooperative Sets Up “Financial Night Schools” to Extend Financial Knowledge The Lack of Financial Knowledge Necessitates Urgent Action “Financial Night Schools” Were Set Up to Facilitate Knowledge Transfer and to Alleviate Poverty Financial Night Schools Bring Benefits to Multiple Stakeholders, Particularly the General Public Jinsha County: Exploring a New Path to Transformation and Development Driven by Openness Leading Enterprises Settle in the County and Booming Industry Drives the Growth of Other Businesses Develop as a Whole and Rise with Strong Momentum Foster Strengths to Make Up for Weaknesses and Overcome Difficulties Meitan County: Promote Poverty Alleviation by “Pairing Hundred Enterprises with Hundred Villages” Targeted Poverty Alleviation in Light of Local Conditions The Charming and Outstanding Scenery on the Highland—A Brief Report on Guizhou Province's Efforts in Developing Rural Tourism to Increase Farmers' Income by Upholding Two Bottom Lines Open up a New Path to Riches by Leveraging Strengths Beauty in Diversity Promote Lasting Connectivity Ocean of Flowers, Sea of Faces and World of Business Hundred Li of Azalea Bloom Brings Spring to the Village Peach Flowers Blossoming in Kelou Reflects the People's High Spirit and the Flourishing Business The Allure of the Intoxicating Fragrance of Flowers in Shanping for Tourists “Green Bank” Was Built in Faraway Mountainous Area—Guizhou Province Poverty Alleviation Targeted at Modern Specialty and High-Efficiency Mountain Agriculture Explore Development Paths Guided by Environmental Protection Build Development Platforms Through Demonstration Parks Broaden the Agricultural Market Through Internet Technologies Farmers' Fortune Improves as Guizhou Herbal Medicines Are Sold Beyond the Mountains—Summary of Guizhou's Efforts to Alleviate Poverty Through Developing Herbal Medicines Multi-mode Promotion and Rational Development Notable Outcomes for Poverty Alleviation Achieved as a Result of Innovations in the Interest Chain The Whole Industrial Chain Blazed a New Trail of Development for Guizhou Herbal Medicines Casting a Model of Combating Poverty in China—Summary of the Poverty Alleviation Model in Haique Insist on Mobilizing the Masses to Participate in Poverty Alleviation and Development Insist on Implementing of Industrial Poverty Alleviation Insist on Strengthening Infrastructure Construction Insist on Upholding the Two Bottom Lines of Ecology and Development Insist on Promoting All-Round Progress of Social Undertakings Insist on Consolidating Community-Level Organizations Insist on Project Implementation Insist on Expanding the Collective Economy “Yina Pattern” Provides a Solution to Developing Impoverished Mountainous Areas To Pay Special Attention to Those in Need and the Reason Behind Poverty and Adopt Four Indicators to Find Out if the Recipient is Really Impoverished To Take Different Measures for Different People and Ensure Industrial Support Reaches Every Household in Every Village To Ensure Everyone Has More Confidence in His Ability and Receives Education and That Education and Trainings Reach Every Household in Every Village To Implement the “4321” Project and to Ensure Paired Support is Offered in Every Household in Every Village To Ensure That Every Household in Every Village is Involved in the Project for Building Beautiful Homes, Renovating Dilapidated Houses and Ecological Migration To Improve People's Well-Being in Light of Their Different Needs and Build Infrastructure in Every Household in Every Village To Enhance Team Building and Pool People's Strength to Seek Development To Improve Party Conduct, Uphold Integrity and Strengthen Project Management To Take Targeted Measures and Build a Long-Term Mechanism for Targeted Poverty Alleviation To Form Units to Offer Help and Form a New Pattern of Targeted Poverty Alleviation Review on the Reconstruction Efforts Following the Landslide in Huashi Village, Dafang County Background Strategy a. In-Depth Review, Cause Identification and Ecological Restoration b. Strengthen Supervision, Develop Industries and Increase Livelihood c. Agricultural Products Are Sold Online to the Entire Nation “Qinglong Pattern” Creates Another “Get-Rich on Rocky Desertification” Miracle The Impact of the “Qinglong Pattern” Major Practices Working Measures Suggestions on Promoting the “Qinglong Pattern” Next Steps Puding County Supports Women Power: “Made in Courtyard” Shows Good Momentum With Deliberation, Households Find Ways to Get Rich With People’s Hard Work, Courtyard Economy Creates Wealth Being Practical, the “Two-Way Industrial Chain” Gains Success One Mu1 of Tea Garden for Everyone, One Craftsman in Every Household and E-Commerce in Every Village—Leishan Makes Full Use of Its Ecological Advantages and Greatly Promotes Targeted Poverty Alleviation Build Roads and Bring Wealth to Remote Mountains Protect Villages and Develop Rural Tourism One Mu of Tea Garden for Everyone, and Waste Mountains Have Now Become Golden A Craftsman in Each Household Guarantees Income E-Commerce in Every Village Bringing Local Flavors to Every Corner of the Country Committing 10,000 Yuan for Share Purchase Generates Wealth for Farmers The “Red Engine” in Wanshan District Drives People to Prosperity Profit Distribution is Transparent New Agribusiness Increases People’s Income Paired Assistance Brings Real Results Party Members Take the Lead Beautiful Scenery and Rich Local Products Promote the Development of Tourism Industry and Rural Areas—Tourism-Based Poverty Alleviation in Qianxinan Prefecture The Combination of Agriculture and Tourism Brings Changes to Industrial Structure The Development of Industries Promotes Rural Economy The Development of Tourism Brings Happiness to Rural Households Taking Advantage of Resources and Making the Countryside Beautiful and the People Rich—Taijiang County Accelerated Its Integrated Development of Agriculture, Culture and Tourism To Firstly Focus on Top-Level Design To Give Priority to the Key Task of Project Development To Promote the Brand of Festival and Cultural Tourism To Develop the Silver Ornament and Embroidery Making Industry To Build Beautiful Villages Changshun County Explores an Ecological Path for Poverty Alleviation and Development Leverage What’s at Hand: Industry-Based Poverty Reduction Initiative Increases Farmers’ Income Different Varieties Develop Concurrently: Stereoscopic Agriculture Proves to Be Successful Transformation and Upgrading: Grassland Modern Agriculture Achieves New Development