What are the 14 contiguous poverty-stricken areas in China?

The 14 contiguous extremely poor areas include: Liupan Mountainous Area, Qinba Mountainous Area, Wuling Mountainous Area, Wumeng Mountainous Area, Yunnan-Guangxi-Guizhou rocky desertification area, western Yunnan border mountainous area, southern foothills of Daxingan Mountains, Yanshan- Taihang Mountains, Luliang Mountains, Dabie Mountains, Luoxiao Mountains, Tibet, Tibetan areas in four provinces, and four prefectures in southern Xinjiang.

Concentrated and contiguous poverty-stricken areas refer to extremely poor areas. The per capita net income of farmers in China's 14 concentrated and contiguous poverty-stricken areas is 2,676 yuan, which is only half of the national average; it ranks lowest in the country. Among the 600 counties, 521 are in the area, accounting for 86.8%.

On December 6, 2011, the State Council Information Office held a press conference on the "China Rural Poverty Alleviation and Development Outline (2011-2020)". In the history of China's poverty alleviation and development, the State Council Information Office identified key counties and counties for national poverty alleviation and development work. Providing key support to poor villages is the main method for targeting poverty alleviation and development areas, and is also an important starting point and successful experience in poverty alleviation work.

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The new "Outline" delegates the authority to adjust key counties to provincial-level local governments. In order to encourage provinces to effectively adjust key counties according to the level of economic and social development, achieve a gradual reduction in the number of key counties, and promote the scientific allocation of poverty alleviation resources, the new "Outline" clearly states that "provinces with fewer key counties will have undiminished state support."

The new "Outline" proposes that all departments of the State Council and local governments at all levels should increase overall planning and coordination, focus on implementing a number of people's livelihood projects, vigorously improve production and living conditions, cultivate and expand a number of characteristic and advantageous industries, and accelerate The pace of regional important infrastructure construction will be strengthened, ecological construction and environmental protection will be strengthened, efforts will be made to resolve bottlenecks that restrict development, and equalization of basic public services will be promoted to fundamentally change the appearance of contiguous impoverished areas.

Reference material: Baidu Encyclopedia - Concentrated contiguous poverty-stricken areas