What are the 43 poverty-stricken counties in Shaanxi Province?

As of May 2019, there are 29 impoverished counties in Shaanxi Province (the rest have been lifted out of poverty).

Through Shaanxi Province’s targeted poverty alleviation actions in recent years, there are still 29 poverty-stricken counties in Shaanxi Province, namely Yintai District, Yaozhou District, Baishui County, Nanzheng District, Yangxian County, and Xixiang County, Mian County, Chenggu County, Ningqiang County, Lueyang County, Zhenba County, Jiaxian County, Qingjian County;

Zizhou County, Hanbin District, Hanyin County, Shiquan County, Ningshan County, Ziyang County, Langao County, Xunyang County, Baihe County, Pingli County, Shangzhou District, Luonan County, Danfeng County, Shangnan County, Shanyang County and Zhashui County.

Extended information:

On February 18, 2019, Shaanxi Province’s poverty alleviation work prioritized improving the quality of poverty alleviation, focusing on deeply impoverished areas as the focus of poverty alleviation, ensuring that 565,000 people High-quality poverty alleviation, 29 poverty-stricken counties were “removed”.

In 2018, 1.045 million poor people in Shaanxi Province were lifted out of poverty, 23 impoverished counties met the exit standards, and the poverty incidence rate dropped to 3.18%. Decisive progress was made in the province's poverty alleviation campaign.

As of the end of 2018, Shaanxi Province still had 29 impoverished counties with a poor population of 775,500, including 10 deeply impoverished counties with a poor population of 292,600. The task of alleviating poverty is still arduous.

Shaanxi Province requires local governments at all levels to take extraordinary measures and more solid actions to further promote poverty alleviation in deeply impoverished areas and ensure that they work with the whole country to build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way.

Relevant provincial departments should provide more concentrated support to deeply impoverished areas, especially in terms of financial guarantees. The new central fiscal poverty alleviation funds will mainly be used for industrial development and public welfare in deeply impoverished counties and villages. * The service level has been improved to fully guarantee the investment needs for poverty alleviation in deeply impoverished areas.

Baidu Encyclopedia—National Poverty-stricken County