China is a developing country and there are about seventy million poverty people. The targeted poverty alleviation policy is the core of poverty alleviation and development in China at present. Ensuring the remaining rural poor people to move out of poverty by 2020 under current standard and solving the regional poverty problem have become the most arduous task to build a well-off society during China’s 13th Five-Year Plan period.
In 2015, the third-party evaluation of State Council “Implementation of Taking Targeted Measures in Poverty Alleviation” was successfully presided over and completed by the Center for Regional Agriculture and Rural Development (CRARD), Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (IGSNRR), Chinese Academy of Science (CAS). On the basic of this task, CRARD also undertook the third-party evaluation of the “Effectiveness of National Targeted Poverty Alleviation” in April 2016.
This national major project has been officially launched. More than 1000 experts and investigators from geography and resources environment will take part in the investigation on rural poverty level on the spot in 22 provinces of central and west of China, while they will explore a specific sampling evaluation program in the surveyed regions.
The evaluation work will be carried out and finished based on indices system and sampling evaluation program.
