China's impoverished mountainous areas are mainly concentrated in the central and western regions as well as the southwestern region, including some mountainous areas in Hubei, Sichuan, Guangxi, Gansu, Guizhou and other provinces.
The characteristics of poor areas are as follows:
1. Wide area
In 2011, the state identified 14 concentrated contiguous areas with special difficulties, covering 680 counties in China, covering an area of about 42% of China's national territory, covering a population of roughly 200 million people.
2. Among the poverty-stricken areas, the old revolutionary areas, ethnic minority areas, ecologically fragile areas, and border areas account for the majority of the areas, which are relatively vulnerable in the overall development of the country.
3, poor areas are often characterized by a combination of population poverty and ecological fragility
The traditional development-oriented approach to development may affect the overall ecological structure of the country.
The characteristics of the poor population are as follows:
1. Widely Distributed
From the situation of the establishment of records, the poor population is distributed in more than 2,200 counties and 128,000 villages.
2. Both relatively concentrated and dispersed
The so-called relative concentration means that the poor population is mainly concentrated in 832 piece-area counties and counties that are the national key counties for poverty alleviation and development; the so-called dispersed means that in addition to these concentrated areas, there are also more than 1,000 counties that have a poverty-stricken population.
3. Among the existing poor people, the central and western regions account for about 93 percent, while the eastern region accounts for more than 6 percent.
4. A large proportion of the poor population are ethnic minorities, and the problem of poverty among the elderly is prominent, with individual characteristics leading to poverty becoming more and more pronounced.
Expanded Information
There are 485 national poverty-stricken counties (including county-level administrative units districts, flags, and county-level cities) nationwide***.
The state, in order to support poor areas, the establishment of national poverty county standards, qualifications recognized by the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, the approval process *** has been carried out three times. Minority autonomous regions have different assessment standards, called national poverty alleviation work in national autonomous areas key counties.
The national-level poor counties are located in China's 22 provincial-level administrative regions, and among all the provinces, the top nine in terms of the number of poor counties are located in the western region, with the largest number in the Tibet Autonomous Region, followed by Guizhou Province, Gansu Province, Yunnan Province, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Shaanxi Province, Sichuan Province, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, respectively.
In March 2012, the adjustment list of national-level poverty-stricken counties was released, transferring out 38 districts and counties, but the total number remained unchanged.October 17, 2014 was China's first Poverty Alleviation Day.October 26-29, 2015, the Fifth Plenum of the 18th Central Committee put forward a new goal of building a moderately prosperous society in all aspects: to realize the poverty eradication of rural poor people under the current standards of China, and to remove the hats of all poverty-stricken counties to? Solve the regional overall poverty.?
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