Guangxi to improve transportation infrastructure for poverty alleviation

Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region is now accelerating the construction of transportation infrastructure in impoverished areas to effectively ensure that these areas complete their poverty alleviation task on schedule as part of the region's battle against poverty.

According to the related person in charge of the Guangxi Transportation Department, key tasks for their poverty alleviation efforts this year include:

1) All administrative villages complete access to bus services.

This was completed ahead of schedule in May this year. Guangxi will establish a long-term mechanism for the development of rural passenger transportation and improve the service level of rural passenger transportation in the future.

2) All roads in towns and administrative villages remain unobstructed.

To date, 83 percent of the newly built or extended secondary or tertiary roads in the region connecting townships and administrative villages have been completed.

3) All rural roads complete safety and life protection project.

By the end of November this year, 26,700 kilometers of hidden danger sections in rural roads and 301 bridges deemed dangerous will be renovated.

In addition, the allocation of subsidy funds shall be implemented in accordance with the principle that more than 50 percent of the annual agricultural project funds are invested in 54 impoverished counties to accelerate the construction of rural transportation projects.

In the second half of the year, Guangxi will make good use of subsidies from the central government and the autonomous region government to focus on guiding cities and counties to effective utilize the agricultural funds and accelerate the construction of rural road projects. Four extremely poor counties will be subsidized at 100 percent of the investment, 50 poor counties will be subsidized at 80 percent of the investment, and other counties will be subsidized at 70 percent of the investment.