Research Reports on the Elimination of Poverty in China - Cengong County, Guizhou Province

    Zhao Shurong, Xie Jihua, Tong Fei, Yang Enhua, Duan Peijun, Xu Jirui, (Benin) Guillaume Moumouni

Abstract

    For the purpose of poverty alleviation,University of Electronic Science and Technology of China（UESTC）has initiated the targeted support in Cengong County located in Guizhou Province since 2013.This report therefore serves as a summary for the said seven-year long targeted support.As the result of employing poverty alleviation practices for “Targeted Poverty Alleviation,” this report illustrates the experiences learned by Cengong County administration from applying “Einformation+smart urban and rural construction” model.The contents of this report are divided into five chapters.Chapter one,by giving a basic description on the state of the county,featured industries and potential challenges for poverty reduction,introduces its socioeconomic progress of Cengong.Chapter two,on the other hand,analyzes poverty alleviation strategy employed by Cengong County through the investigations on background analysis,construction of objectives,working mechanism,and method by top design.The main theme of chapter three is to assess the measures implemented by Cengong County when applying the“Einformation+smart urban and rural construction”model for the execution of targeted poverty alleviation.Chapter four examines Cengong County's achievement for reducing the poverty from four aspects including“Smart Party Directing”,“Institution-lo cality Cooperative Working Mechanism” “E-information+Industries”, and “Smart Measures”. Chapter five offers a prospect that should inspire poverty reductions for African states.This is to say that the experience learned by Cengong County administration,together with the analysis on the development of electronic information industry,could inform African states to take necessary steps for poverty reduction.This report argues that intellectual education and aspiration building are the basis upon which“E-information+smart urban and rural construction”model is constructed.Such model is a three-part structure.In this model structure, “Smart Party Directing” functions as the core while the“Institutionlo cality Cooperative Working Mechanism” serves as working mechanism.And the “E-information+” model in six aspects is the “bridge” that gives new model for its final structure of “Smart Poverty Alleviation”.The “Einformation+smart urban and rural construction” model will also socialize all resources concerning to comprehensively advance the smart urban and rural construction that represents the new attempt made by Cengong County administration for becoming moderately prosperous.This report aims to campaign for China's glorious victory in the battle against poverty that is crucial for the comprehensive construction of moderately prosperous society.The experiences summarized in this report also have international significance that deprived regions like Africa can be inspired to some extent from learning the Chinese example of poverty reduction.

Key words

    Poverty alleviation,“E-information+smart urban and rural construction”,UESTC,Cengong County of Guizhou Province,Africa,International experiences for references