Standards for poverty-stricken counties: all those with an annual per capita net income of more than 700 yuan will be withdrawn from the national-level poverty-stricken counties, and all those with an annual per capita net income of less than 400 yuan will be included in the national-level poverty-stricken counties.?

In August 2016, the General Office of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee and the General Office of the Provincial Government issued the Implementation Program for the Exit of Poverty-stricken Counties, Poverty-stricken Villages and Poverty-stricken Households in Sichuan Province (hereinafter referred to as the Program), which clarifies the standards and procedures for the exit of the poor population, poverty-stricken villages and poverty-stricken counties as well as the relevant work requirements.

According to the clear exit standards of the Program, the exit of the poor population is based on the unit of households, and the main measurement standard is that the annual per capita net income of poor households stably exceeds the national poverty alleviation standards, and there is no worry about food and clothing, and there are guarantees for compulsory education, basic medical care, and housing safety (i.e., "two no worries, three guarantees"); on this basis, each household is provided with safe drinking water, electricity, radio and television.

The exit of poor villages is mainly measured by the incidence of poverty, and in principle, the incidence of poverty in poor villages has been reduced to less than 3%, taking into account the comprehensive factors of village infrastructure, basic public **** services, industrial development, collective economic income, etc.; and on this basis, to achieve that villages and villages have collective economic income, hardened roads, health centers, cultural centers, and communication networks.

The exit of poor counties is mainly measured by the incidence of poverty, and in principle, the incidence of poverty in poor counties has been reduced to less than 3%; on this basis, it is done that townships and villages have a standard central school, an up-to-standard sanitary hospital, and a people's service center.

According to the Program, the exit of the poor population is handled in accordance with the procedures of "determining the target, democratic deliberation, review and announcement, and filing and canceling", and the exit of poor villages is handled in accordance with the procedures of "determining the task, application for exit, review and announcement, and filing and canceling", and the county poverty alleviation departments are responsible for the national poverty alleviation program. The county-level poverty alleviation departments are responsible for marking the poor population and poor villages in the national poverty alleviation and development information system and the provincial poverty alleviation "six" big data platform.

The exit of poor counties is carried out in accordance with the procedure of "county application, municipal preliminary examination, provincial verification, and classification and approval". Poverty-stricken counties meeting the exit criteria apply to the municipal poverty alleviation leading group before the end of September of the current year.

After the preliminary examination at the municipal level and the verification at the provincial level, the national poverty-stricken counties to be exited will be examined by the provincial poverty alleviation leading group, and will be recognized by the provincial poverty alleviation leading group. After the provincial leading group on poverty alleviation and attack finalizes the application, it will report to the State Council Leading Group on Poverty Alleviation and Development, and after passing the special assessment and inspection by the State Council Leading Group on Poverty Alleviation and Development, the provincial government will formally approve the withdrawal.

Aiming at the question of whether to continue to enjoy the policy after the exit of the poor counties, the "Program" makes it clear that after the exit of the poor counties to 2020, the original poverty alleviation policies of the country and the province will remain unchanged, and the support will not be reduced, so as to promote the consolidation and enhancement of the effectiveness of poverty alleviation work, and to ensure that the realization of the stability of poverty alleviation. The early application and exit of the poverty-stricken counties, the provincial poverty alleviation leading group to give appropriate incentives.

In addition, the "program" also requires local refinement of the poverty exit specific work program, the implementation of the county, to the village, to the household, in the implementation of the process of attention to tracking and evaluation, timely detection and resolution of the implementation of the process of the incipient, tendency to solve the problem, sum up the experience, and gradually improve. Poverty-stricken counties, villages and households that have withdrawn from poverty should be carefully evaluated and verified, and importance should be attached to giving play to the positive incentives of poverty withdrawal.

Extended information:

Poverty counties standard confirmation:

Taking the county as a unit. In 1985, the annual per capita income of counties less than 150 yuan, the standard for minority autonomous counties has been relaxed. 1994 basically continued this standard, in 1992, the annual per capita net income of more than 700 yuan, all out of the state-level poverty-stricken counties, less than 400 yuan of counties, all included in the state-level poverty-stricken counties.?

The number of key counties was determined using the "631 index method": the poor population (as a proportion of the country) accounted for 60% of the weight (of which the absolute poor population and low-income population accounted for 80% and 20% of the proportion); the number of counties with a lower per capita net income of the farmers (as a proportion of the country) accounted for 30% of the weight; the number of counties with a low per capita GDP, the per capita income of the low number of counties accounted for 10% of the weight.

Wherein: per capita low income is standardized at 1,300 yuan, and 1,500 yuan for old areas and ethnic minority border areas; per capita GDP is standardized at 2,700 yuan; and per capita financial income is standardized at 120 yuan.

Based on the above principles and methods, 591 counties (flags and cities) have been identified as key counties for national poverty alleviation and development work in 21 provinces, autonomous regions and cities in the central and western parts of the country. They are concentrated in ethnic minority areas, old revolutionary areas, border areas and special hardship areas, of which the proportion of old, small and border counties has risen from 18.43% and 6% respectively under the "87th Plan" to 31%, 45% and 9%.

According to preliminary estimates, key counties cover 54 percent of the country's poor population (625 yuan) and 57 percent of the low-income population (865 yuan).

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