What does peer assistance mean?

Counterpart assistance is an important national poverty alleviation and development policy. Counterpart assistance is an important national poverty alleviation and development policy. Through multi-level and all-round collaboration in poverty alleviation assistance, technical cooperation, talent exchange and other aspects, it has effectively promoted poverty alleviation and prosperity in poor areas.

In October 1996, the central government held a poverty alleviation and development work conference and determined the counterpart assistance policy in the "Decision on Solving the Food and Clothing Problem of the Rural Poor People as soon as possible", requiring Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen to Nine eastern coastal provinces and cities and four cities under separate state planning provide counterpart assistance to 10 impoverished provinces and autonomous regions in the west, including Inner Mongolia, Yunnan, Guangxi and Guizhou.

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When General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the symposium on decisive battle against poverty, he emphasized the need to deepen poverty alleviation cooperation between the east and the west and targeted poverty alleviation by central units. At present, the most prominent task is to help the central and western regions reduce the impact of the epidemic on poverty alleviation, through labor cooperation and consumption poverty alleviation.

In the long term, poverty alleviation cooperation between the east and west should be based on the overall national regional development strategy, deepen regional cooperation, promote the gradient transfer of industries from the east to the west, and achieve industrial complementarity, personnel interaction, mutual learning of technology, exchange of ideas, and mutual exchange of styles. Learn from each other and develop together.

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