Poverty-alleviation work in Inner Mongolia yields results

Poverty relief work for poor people living in North China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region has proven a great success.

In the early 1980s, there were six million people in the agricultural and pastoral areas of Inner Mongolia who did not have enough food and clothing, and the incidence rate of poverty was 67 percent.

In 2013, the registered poverty-stricken population in Inner Mongolia was 1.57 million, with an incidence rate of poverty of 11.7 percent.

By the end of 2019, the number of impoverished people in Inner Mongolia dropped to 16,000, and the incidence rate of poverty decreased to 0.11 percent.

As of March 4, 2020, all of the 3,681 poverty-stricken villages and 57 poverty-stricken banners in Inner Mongolia were lifted out of poverty.

Inner Mongolia has helped residents get out of poverty by guaranteeing basic education, medical care, housing safety and access to safe drinking water. 

In recent years, Inner Mongolia has renovated 137,000 houses lived in by impoverished people and relocated 124,900 people, completing the population relocation task of the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-20) ahead of schedule.

Inner Mongolia has also renovated 1,793 schools in poverty-stricken areas and ensured that no students drop out of school due to poverty during the basic education stage.

Meanwhile, all of the poverty-stricken people in Inner Mongolia have been covered by basic medical insurance, critical illness insurance and medical assistance coverage. The treatment ratio of impoverished patients and patients with serious illnesses has reached 99.9 percent, and the contracted service rate of less-fortunate chronic disease patients has reached 98.5 percent.

Also, the problem of drinking water safety for 183,000 registered impoverished people has been solved.