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China to help certain ethnic minorities shake off poverty

www.chinanews.cn 2005-03-01 12:37:07

Chinanews, Feb. 28 - Mao Gongning, director of the Department of Policy
and Regulation of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission, said that the
government was formulating a developmental plan to help ethnic minorities
shake off poverty in six years, from 2005 to 2010. The Chinese government
plans to assist poor ethnic villages that have not had adequate food and
clothing to rise above poverty, help those that have had adequate food
and clothing reach middle-class or higher levels and facilitate fast
growing villages to scale higher economic plateaus.
Mao added that twenty-two of China's fifty-five ethnic minorities have a
total population of 630,000, less than 100,000 each. Most of these 22
groups live in remote areas, which make them the most disadvantaged among
all ethnic minorities. The Chinese government has added the support of
these groups to the Tenth Five-Year Plan, calling for special policies
for ethnic groups whose population is under 100,000.
At the Conference on Scaling-Up Poverty Reduction in 2004, the Chinese
government promised the world that it would strengthen its efforts to
support these twenty-two ethnic minorities, giving priority to poverty
reduction in their regions.

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