The Ministry of Civil Affairs of China recently issued a notice requiring all localities to strengthen the identification of low-income populations and expand monitoring. Schematic diagram. (Image source: Getty Images)
[See China News on May 6, 2024](See comprehensive report by Chinese reporter Li Xiaokui)China’s low-income populationat least more than66 millionPeople take the lead in maintaining social stability, ChinaMinistry of Civil AffairsA recent notice requiring all localities to strengthen the identification of low-income populations and expand monitoring work has attracted attention from the outside world.
The Chinese Communist Party authorities clamor for poverty alleviation in order to stabilize society. In October 2023, the Ministry of Civil Affairs announced that China’s current low-income population dynamic monitoring information platform has collected basic information on more than 66 million low-income people, accounting for approximately 4.7% of the country’s total population. These more than 66 million people mainly include nearly 40 million subsistence allowance recipients, more than 4.6 million people in extreme poverty, and more than 6 million family members on the margins of subsistence allowance.
China Business News reported on the 5th that the Ministry of Civil Affairs recently issued a notice requiring all localities to comprehensively carry out the identification of families on the margins of the minimum living security and families with rigid expenditure difficulties on the basis of doing a good job in identifying the minimum living security recipients and extremely poor people.
In addition, in terms of strengthening the dynamic monitoring of low-income populations, the Chinese Communist Party officially requires all localities to expand the scope of monitoring with the goal of “preventing risks” and include other people in need identified by local governments and other low-income populations with potential difficulties or risks into the low-income population. Income population dynamic monitoring information platform strengthens hierarchical management and dynamic monitoring. However, the official did not mention low-income standards.
In addition to the above, the Chinese Communist Party government stated that it is also necessary to make the public widely aware of the so-called positive role of implementing dynamic monitoring of low-income populations in effectively preventing risks and alleviating life difficulties. It is also necessary to instill Communist Party ideology and guide the low-income population who are capable of working. “Self-improvement and self-reliance”, and through one’s own efforts and employment, one can get out of poverty.
However, it is worth noting that the so-called 66 million low-income population officially announced is not based on international standards, but is calculated based on China’s own standards. It can also be said that it is purely a word game by the Chinese Communist authorities. Chen Daoyin, a scholar on China issues, once said frankly, “China has more than 66 million poor people, let alone low-income people. We don’t want to play this kind of word game with the Chinese government.”
China’s last impoverished counties and impoverished areas were declared out of poverty in November 2020. On the eve of the “Two Sessions” in Beijing in 2021, the Chinese Communist Party officially stated in a unified voice that China’s 98.99 million rural poor people, 832 impoverished counties and 128,000 impoverished villages have been “completely lifted out of poverty.”
Although the official later stopped mentioning “poverty alleviation,” they changed their tune and said that “targeted assistance” and “social assistance” must be provided to this group of people. Voice of America reported that in recent years, in the process of disbursing and supervising subsistence allowance funds in mainland China, problems such as irregular fund disbursement, lax process review and inadequate implementation of regulatory systems have been common.
Not only that, but recently, ordinary people in China from all walks of life have been receiving news of salary cuts and benefits being cancelled, triggering protests.
In April this year, employees of radio and television stations in Puyang City, Henan Province held a rally and held banners to protest and demand unpaid wages; in February this year, a large number of sanitation workers in Xiayi County, Shangqiu, Henan Province also went to the local government to demand wages because they were Wages were in arrears for 13 months.
Due to the financial constraints of the Chinese government in recent years, government civil servants in Nanjing, Tianjin, Shandong and other places have not only had their salaries reduced, but also had their salaries delayed. Among them, even pensions in Jilin have been suspended, and some governments even borrowed money from monasteries.
After this year’s two sessions, various places followed Beijing in shouting to “live a tight life”. CCP Finance Minister Lan Fo’an once publicly talked about “living a tight life”, which is not about keeping a tight wallet and not spending money, but “being generous with big money and stingy with small money” and concentrating financial resources to do big things.
The most ironic thing is that in March this year, CCTV News praised the leader of the Communist Party of China in an article titled “I am the servant of the people.” The beginning of the article quoted the leader of the Communist Party of China, “We are servants of the people. This sentence does not mean that we are servants of the people.” It’s not just a slogan, we just do things for the people.
According to a research report on December 26 last year by the Department of Employment, Income Distribution and Consumption of the China Development and Reform Commission and the China Income Distribution Research Institute of Beijing Normal University, 39.1% of China’s population has a monthly income of less than 1,000 yuan, which translates to a population of 547 million; monthly income The number of people with a monthly income of 1,000 to 1,090 yuan is 52.5 million, and the total population with a monthly income of less than 1,090 yuan is 600 million, accounting for 42.85% of the total population.
If 1,090 to 2,000 yuan is used as the standard for low- and middle-income people, the population of this group will reach 364 million. In other words, the number of people in China whose monthly income is less than 2,000 yuan has reached 964 million. This data is consistent with the statement by China’s late Prime Minister Li Keqiang in May 2020 that China’s 600 million people have a monthly income of about 1,000 yuan.
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