Deputy Director General Huang Chengwei Delivered a Keynote Speech at the “Seminar on Poverty under the New Situation”

18 January, 2013 --- IPRCC Deputy Director General Huang Chengwei was invited to participate in the “Seminar on Poverty under the New Situation” and delivered a keynote speech. The seminar was held by Beijing Normal University and China Center for Poverty Reduction Research, aiming to discuss ways to move forward the study on poverty and further improve its theoretical system, timeliness and forward-looking since China entered the new stage of poverty reduction and development. More than 30 delegates from the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, National Development and Reform Commission, Beijing Normal University, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, UNDP, the World Bank and ADB attended the conference.

             

In his speech, Huang started with the new pattern of global development, the new changes of China’s role orientation in global development, the development of the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, five-one strategic deployment and the goal of well-off society, analyzed the new situations and requirements faced by China’s poverty study. He also set forth the challenges of poverty and trends of poverty reduction practice in connection with the new conclusions and changes of poverty reduction work put forward in the New Poverty Alleviation Outline, as well as the new necessary methods of poverty study. Moreover, he introduced the key issues of poverty reduction work in the new phase.

In the meeting, the delegates listened to the publishing progress reporting on “Special Poverty Reduction Project Policies and Ethnic Minorities’ Development Series”, and discussed the topic and design framework of Report on China’s Anti-poverty Development (2013) and Report on Poverty Reduction and Green Development of China’s Contiguous Extremely Poor Areas (2013), study on poverty impact assessment of important program policies, progress and plan of research projects on effects of supportive policies for vulnerable groups in the contiguous extremely poor areas.