The International Day for the Eradication of poverty, China's poverty reduction has a successful way

October 17 is the International Day for the Eradication of poverty. Since 2014, China has been setting up a "Poverty day" every October 17.

Poverty alleviation is one of the most important human rights undertakings in the world. China's elimination of absolute poverty has a tremendous impact on the world. This is reflected in China's absolute poor population (poverty below the international poverty line) and the proportion of the world's total share of the large "double decline." In 1981, China's absolute poverty population was 835 million, to 68 million by 2013. In 1981, China's absolute poor accounted for 43.1% of the world's total, and fell to 13% by 2010.

2002, the incidence of poverty in China fell to 28.4%, for the first time less than 30.7% of the world's poor population incidence. By 2013, the incidence of poverty in China fell further to 5%, already well below the world level (2010 20.58%), which had largely eliminated absolute poverty.

China's poverty reduction has its way to success. First, poverty reduction, as an important national development goal, is formally included in national development planning. Since 1986, China began to implement a planned, organized and large-scale poverty alleviation and development, set up a specialized agency for poverty alleviation and development, assessed the Ting and provincial Ting, formulated a pro-poor development policy corresponding to China's national conditions and stages of development, and formulated a plan for poverty alleviation in 1994, 2001 and 2011, Define the target of stage poverty alleviation, take the poverty alleviation and development as the main way to get rid of poverty, encourage and help the poor object who have the ability to work out through their own efforts to extricate themselves from the poor;

Second, sustained and high economic growth has become a decisive factor in reducing the number of poor people significantly. From 1979 to 2011, China's GDP growth rate was as high as 9.9%, and agricultural growth rate was 4.6% annually, which created the necessary conditions for China to reduce the rural poor. The rural area "four" (agricultural modernization, rural industrialization, peasant non-farming, peasant workers urbanization) which accompanies with the economic growth is the root cause of the large reduction of the rural poor population.

Third, continuously improve the national poverty alleviation strategy and policy system. We should insist on coordinating urban and rural economic and social development, carrying out industry-oriented agriculture, supporting rural areas and taking more and less active policies, abolishing agricultural taxes comprehensively, implementing various agricultural subsidies, strengthening the construction of rural infrastructure, and increasing the financial transfer payments and special anti-poverty funds for poor areas. The core of China's poverty reduction strategy is to invest human capital, improve development capacity and expand development opportunities for poor people.

Forth, innovate the anti-poverty mechanism with Chinese characteristics. Self-reliance, local dominance, state support, social donations, counterpart support, market-driven, international assistance, 7 mechanisms form the model of PPP (Government and social capital cooperation) with Chinese characteristics, which is government-led, pluralistic, complementary, incentive compatible and widely participated.

These measures have contributed significantly to the reduction of poverty in the rural areas, and have explored a path of poverty alleviation with Chinese characteristics and made significant contributions to the cause of global poverty reduction. The practice of poverty alleviation in China proves that poverty is not invincible. However, this is a protracted period of historical process, from the world's absolute poor, the most powerful, to fully build a well-off society, it will take at least more than 70 years. By 2020, the important symbol of a well-off society is to basically eliminate all kinds of poverty.

As the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, China is critical to achieving the international community's MDG goals, the world's top international development goal. The well-off society is the goal of the international social Millennium Development Goal, China's realization of a well-off community will promote the achievement of the international Millennium Development Goals.

(The author is the Dean of National Research Institute of Tsinghua University, professor of public Administration)