Figure 2.12 Regional poverty rate in rural areas, 2012–2017
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Sources: National Bureau of Statistics, Poverty Monitoring Report of Rural China, 2017–2018
Figure 2.12
Poverty in China’s rural areas shows obvious regional characteristics. A large proportion of the poor population is concentrated in poverty counties, a ethnic minority areas, the western region, and the ‘San Qu San Zhou’ (three areas and three prefectures),22 where there is higher incidence and greater extent of poverty. More than 60 per cent of the rural poor population reside in poverty counties, with more than half of them in the western region, and one third of them in eight ethnic minority provinces (namely Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang). To ensure that by 2020 all people living below the current poverty line are lifted out of poverty, all poverty counties are removed from the poverty list, and the issue of regional poverty is resolved, the Government has already adopted targeted and accurate poverty alleviation measures, among other initiatives.
a Altogether, there are 832 poverty counties in China, including the counties located in ‘poverty blocks’ as well as those out of the blocks yet identified as ‘key poverty counties’ by the Government of China for focused poverty alleviation efforts. Among them, there are 680 counties in 14 ‘poverty blocks" (11 blocks, along with the Tibet Autonomous Region, ethnically Tibetan regions in four provinces, and South Xinjiang where special poverty alleviation measures have already been implemented) as defined in the Rural Poverty Reduction Strategy (2011–2020), and 592 ‘key poverty counties’. There is an overlap of 440 counties between the list of ‘key poverty counties’ and the ‘poverty blocks’.