Lanzhou, Xinhua News Agency, February 21 (Reporter Yu Qiongyuan, Zhang Xiaojie) Tang Renjian, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said on the 21st that it is necessary to adhere to the coordinated promotion of "guarding the bottom line, increasing momentum, and promoting revitalization", focus on enhancing the endogenous development momentum of poverty alleviation areas and poverty alleviation people, continue to strengthen monitoring and assistance to prevent poverty return, accelerate the establishment of a normalized assistance mechanism for rural low-income people and underdeveloped areas, and firmly guard the bottom line of not returning to poverty on a large scale.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs held a meeting to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation in Longnan City, Gansu Province on the 21st. The meeting pointed out that after the comprehensive victory in the poverty alleviation battle, it was decided to set up a five-year transition period to promote the effective connection between the consolidation and expansion of poverty alleviation achievements and rural revitalization. This year is the fourth year of the five-year transition period, and the situation and tasks faced by the work of consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation have undergone new changes, and it is necessary to concentrate more resources to support the income increase of the people who have been lifted out of poverty and the development of poverty alleviation areas, consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation in the long run, and lay a solid foundation for comprehensively promoting rural revitalization and accelerating the construction of an agricultural power.
Tang Renjian said that it is necessary to study and promote the convergence and integration of the two policies of preventing the return to poverty and helping the low-income population in rural areas, adhere to the combination of development-oriented assistance and comprehensive guarantees, and continue to narrow the income gap and development gap. Focusing on the two keys of industry and employment, on the basis of firmly adhering to the bottom line of not returning to poverty on a large scale, the focus of work will be shifted to enhancing the endogenous development momentum of poverty alleviation areas and poverty alleviation people, exploring the establishment of policy mechanisms to encourage poverty alleviation people to work hard and get rich, improving the assessment and evaluation system that reflects the endogenous development momentum, focusing on supporting the upgrading and development of characteristic industries, job expansion and quality improvement, and more driving the employment and income of people lifted out of poverty, and better improving the development conditions of poverty alleviation areas. In accordance with the requirements of institutional reform and deployment, promote the integration of agricultural and rural areas and the original rural revitalization institutions, put the work of consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation in the overall pattern of promoting the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, and integrate and strengthen the coordinated promotion of resources and forces in all aspects.