Anti-poverty plan

1986, China launched nationwide in a planned, organized, large-scale poverty alleviation and development. To the end of 1992, rural areas throughout the country did not solve the food and clothing for the poverty-stricken population from 250 million in 1978 were reduced to 80 million people. These poor people are mainly distributed in poor natural conditions, poor living environment of the region, the need for greater efforts to quickly solve their problem of food and clothing. For this reason, the State Council decided to come into effect from the 1994 "State Eight-Seven Anti-Poverty Program."

After seven years of poverty, rural areas throughout the country did not solve the food and clothing for the poverty-stricken population decreased to 30 million people, or the proportion of the rural population dropped to about 3 percent. Apart from a few objects of social security and living in very poor natural conditions in the extremely poor population as well as some of the disabled, the poor rural population has been basically solved the food and clothing problems, set by the central authorities to achieve the basic goal of poverty.