Achievements, experiences and challenges of the battle against poverty in China’s ethnic minority areas: focusing on the “three areas and three prefectures”

Wang, Yanzhong; Ding, Sai

doi:10.1186/s41257-021-00059-0

International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology

Table 1 Comparisons between the poverty-stricken population and incidence of poverty in the three provinces and five autonomous regions with large ethnic minority populations (hereinafter referred to as “the three provinces and five autonomous regions”) and the poverty-stricken population and incidence of poverty in all of China

From: Achievements, experiences and challenges of the battle against poverty in China’s ethnic minority areas: focusing on the “three areas and three prefectures”

	Poverty-stricken population (unit: 10,000)		Incidence of poverty (%)
	In the three provinces and five autonomous regions	In China	In the three provinces and five autonomous regions	In China
2013	2562	8249	17.1	8.5
2014	2205	7017	14.7	7.2
2015	1813	5575	12.1	5.7
2016	1411	4335	9.4	4.5
2017	1032	3046	6.9	3.1
2018	603	1660	4.0	1.7
2019	119	1109	0.79	0.6

Note: The 2013–2016 data in the table are extracted from Poverty Alleviation Progress Report in Minority Areas of China, Neac.gov.cn and Stats.gov.cn (The 2013-2016 data in the table are extracted from Poverty Alleviation Progress Report in Minority Areas of China (2018) (中国少数民族地区扶贫进展报告(2018)) written by Zhang Lijun, Wu Benjian, Wang Fei, Ma Bo, et al. (张丽君, 吴本健, 王飞, 马博等), Economic Press China (中国经济出版社), 2019, pp. 4-5, and Monitoring of Rural Poverty in Ethnic Minority Areas in 2017 (2017年民族地区农村贫困监测情况) published on Neac.gov.cn (国家民委网站) on 17 August 2018. The 2018 data are from the Great Progress in Poverty Relief and Development & Historic Achievements in Poverty Alleviation—The 15th Part of the Series Reports on the Achievements of Economic and Social Development in the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China (扶贫开发持续强力推进脱贫攻坚取得历史性重大成就——新中国成立70周年经济社会发展成就系列报告之十五) by Household Office, National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局住户办) on Stats.gov.cn (国家统计局网) on 12 August 2019. The 2019 data are from Director of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission: The poverty rate in the eight ethnic minority provinces and autonomous regions has dropped from 4% to 0.79% (国家民委主任:民族八省区贫困人口发生率已从4%下降到0.79%) written by Guo Jingyuan (郭静原), published on Ce.cn of Economic Daily (经济日报-中国经济网) on 11 January 2020; as well as reports on the work of the government over the years.)

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