"China's poverty alleviation battle has won a comprehensive victory!" This morning, the National Poverty Alleviation Summary and Commendation Conference was solemnly held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, and Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, solemnly announced.
This is a moment that will surely go down in history: under the current standards, 98.99 million rural poor people have all been lifted out of poverty, 832 poverty-stricken counties have all been removed, 128,000 poverty-stricken villages have all been listed, the overall regional poverty has been solved, and the arduous task of eliminating absolute poverty has been completed... China, which accounts for nearly one-fifth of the world's population, has created another human miracle that will stand in the annals of history.
Poverty is a stubborn disease of human society, and anti-poverty has always been a major event in the governance of the country and the country in ancient and modern China and abroad. A history of China is a history of the Chinese nation's struggle against poverty. Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, 750 million people in China have been lifted out of poverty, contributing more than 70% to world poverty reduction, and achieving the poverty reduction goal of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 10 years ahead of schedule. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, an average of more than 10 million people have been lifted out of poverty every year, which is equivalent to the population of a medium-sized country.
With the comprehensive victory in the battle against poverty, the history of five thousand years of civilization has turned the page of bidding farewell to absolute poverty, and the Chinese nation's vision of "the people will also work hard for thousands of years, and the well-off will be well-off" has become a reality.
Such achievements, looking at the ancient and modern China and foreign countries, up and down the five thousand years, are rare and unparalleled. Such a feat, its weights and measures can only be "human history", its adjective can only be "unprecedented".
Behind the "miracle on earth" is to do our best. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has presided over 7 central poverty alleviation work forums, more than 50 times to investigate poverty alleviation work, and traveled to 14 concentrated and contiguous areas of extreme poverty; party, government, military organs, enterprises and institutions at all levels, together with the vast number of grass-roots organizations in rural areas and party members, cadres, and the masses, have done their duty and displayed their abilities, and written the magnificent cause of poverty alleviation on the vast land. In the past 8 years, the central, provincial, municipal and county financial special poverty alleviation funds have invested nearly 1.6 trillion yuan, and policy assistance, enterprise drive, and cadre dedication have continuously converged to poor areas...
At this time, we must pay tribute to the 10 individuals and 10 collectives who have won the honorary title of "National Model for Poverty Alleviation", and we will not forget the more than 1,800 "warriors" who sacrificed themselves in the battlefield of poverty alleviation, such as Jiang Shikun, Yu Yongliu, Wu Yingpu, Fan Zhenzi, and Huang Wenxiu. They are heroes in poverty alleviation and the backbone of the nation.
At this historic moment, it is also necessary to conduct an in-depth review and sum up the experience of victory. From the magic weapon of precision poverty alleviation to the anti-poverty theory with Chinese characteristics with the core of adhering to the "seven adherences" such as adhering to the party's leadership; from the path of poverty alleviation with Chinese characteristics constructed by a complete set of policy systems, work systems and institutional systems, to the spirit of poverty alleviation with Chinese characteristics of "working from top to bottom, fighting with all sincerity, precision and pragmatism, pioneering and innovating, overcoming difficulties, and living up to the people", this is the Chinese wisdom, Chinese plan and Chinese road that have been proven by practice.
Poverty alleviation is not the end, but the starting point of a new life and a new struggle. The journey is long, but there is only struggle. At the summary and commendation meeting, General Secretary Xi Jinping reiterated this thesis, emphasizing that "we cannot be proud and complacent, slack and rest, we must take advantage of the momentum, continue to work hard, and continue to struggle", and also gave the next goal and task: fully implement the rural revitalization strategy.
This afternoon, the National Rural Revitalization Bureau was officially launched. This is not only a sign of China's comprehensive victory in the battle against poverty, but also the starting point for comprehensively implementing rural revitalization and running towards a new life and new struggle. We have created a human miracle of eliminating absolute poverty, and we will certainly create a human miracle of rural revitalization.
Editor-in-Charge: Gan Qiongfang