Do well in the game of "East-West Poverty Alleviation Cooperation"

There are still 50 million poor people in the country. By 2020, all poverty alleviation goals must be achieved. A few days ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping, who visited the poor in Guyuan, Ningxia, said this concern. A few days later, in Yinchuan, he presided over a symposium on poverty alleviation cooperation between the east and the west, convening party secretaries from many provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in the east and west to deploy the next step of poverty alleviation around this "most concerned matter".

The provinces and cities participating in the conference have another special identity. In 1996, according to Comrade Deng Xiaoping's strategic concept of "two overall situations", which is to help the rich first and then become rich, and ultimately realize common prosperity, the Central Committee made an important decision of "poverty alleviation cooperation between the east and the west". Since then, Beijing and Inner Mongolia, Tianjin and Gansu, Shanghai and Yunnan, Guangdong and Guangxi, Fujian and Ningxia, Dalian, Qingdao, Shenzhen, Ningbo and Guizhou... began to pair up and hold hands. Over the past 20 years, the CPC Central Committee has continuously intensified its work and organized the eastern region to support the western region, forming a multi-level, multi-form and all-round pattern of poverty alleviation cooperation and counterpart support.

It is not difficult to understand why this "east-west exchange", which carries a major mission, has attracted widespread attention. A scholar has communicated with officials and scholars of the World Bank and foreign anti-poverty research institutions for countless times. The other party praised China's achievements in poverty reduction and was interested in the strategic decision-making of "China's experience", especially the counterpart assistance in the east and west. In their view, this reflects the superiority of China's political system and management system, which is difficult for western countries to reach. The scholar therefore commented that China's efforts to reduce poverty are actually providing a Chinese plan for mankind to explore a better social system, which is the most vivid "Chinese story".

Indeed, the mission and responsibility of the Chinese Communist Party to "get rid of poverty" and the commitment to "not let a poor area or a poor population fall behind" are probably beyond the reach of any country or political party. At the beginning of the founding of the Communist Party of China, it was determined to "seek happiness for the poor people"; after reform and opening up, Deng Xiaoping declared to the world that poverty is not socialism, and common prosperity is the essence of socialism;20 years ago, Xi Jinping, then deputy secretary of Fujian Provincial Party Committee and head of Fujian Province's counterpart assistance Ningxia Leading Group, vowed that Minning counterpart poverty alleviation cooperation is a political task and should be resolutely completed. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Central Committee has raised poverty eradication to a new height.

However, how difficult it is to wage war on poverty. Ningxia, where the discussion was held, was the main battlefield for poverty alleviation, Xihaigu, which was rated as "the most barren in the world" by Zuo Zongtang, a famous general of Qing Dynasty, and loess sandy land judged as "uninhabitable" by United Nations officials 40 years ago. The harsh natural conditions, the fragile ecological environment, the backwardness of economic development, the accumulated poverty... To win this battle, we must not only have consistent faith and determination, but also wisdom and ability.

This model of east-west poverty alleviation cooperation and counterpart support undoubtedly provides a "Chinese solution" for solving poverty problems and demonstrates "Chinese wisdom". Indeed, as General Secretary Xi Jinping said,"This is something that only our party and state can do in the world, fully demonstrating our political and institutional advantages."

Where is the advantage? Let's look at an example. Just after the central government deployed its counterpart tasks, the eastern provinces and cities immediately took action to implement them as political tasks. Establish special agencies, establish joint systems, carry out county-city twinning, establish poverty alleviation projects, and select a large number of cadres. Over the past 20 years, the eastern provinces and municipalities have provided financial assistance of 13.27 billion yuan to the western provinces and municipalities, helped build 21,500 kilometers of rural roads, and assisted 1690 health centers.

Isn't this strength and effectiveness brought about by the management system and working mechanism of "central overall planning, provincial overall responsibility, city and county implementation, work to villages and poverty alleviation to households"? "Concentrate on doing big things", once again through the east and west assistance measures can be demonstrated, from the central to the local political responsibility and overall awareness, but also demonstrated "Chinese characteristics of the road to poverty alleviation".

The significance of east-west poverty alleviation cooperation goes far beyond economic and material aspects. When the remote mountainous areas in the west came,"Shanghai doctor" and "Beijing teacher" came, and "Zhejiang boss" and "Jiangsu engineer" came... to make up for the shortcomings of the west with the advantages of the east, to promote the late-development effect with the advantages of the first mover, to change "blood transfusion poverty alleviation" into "hematopoietic poverty alleviation", which not only became an accelerator to shorten the gap, but also activated the endogenous power of the west itself, and then strived for "curve overtaking".

"With the tassel in hand today, when will you tie Cang Long down?" Eighty years ago, it was at the Jiangtai Fort in Xiji that the three armies of the Red Army successfully joined forces on the Long March. Now, Xi Jinping, who visited the poor in Guyuan, Ningxia, three times in 20 years, has witnessed the transformation of Guyuan's development and strengthened his confidence in winning the fight against poverty. Let the people of the whole country share a comprehensive well-off society. This is a "new long march." There is east-west poverty alleviation cooperation and more precise and in-depth poverty alleviation measures. More people are equally confident about this.