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China Drafts New Plan to Aid the Poor
China's science and technology aid-the-poor plan for the coming 10th Five-Year Plan period (2001-2005) will focus on science promotion in ethnic minority areas in west China, areas of former revolutionary bases and border areas.��
Li Xueyong, Vice Minister of Science and Technology said Sunday, December 17, at a national conference on aid-the-poor through science and technology that the major target for aid-the-poor is to increase poor farmers' annual incomes and push ahead social andeconomic sustainable development of the poverty-stricken areas.��
Li said, to achieve these goals, his ministry will allocate ore funds to the aid-the-poor programs and launch more demonstration programs.��
The vice minister said, his ministry will help build more industrial and agricultural ventures with local characteristics for different kinds of poor areas.��
He said another important task for scientists and techniciansis to establish a technology-based aid-the-poor information network nationwide and train more administrative personnel, local technicians and poor farmers.��
The two-day conference is aimed at summing up the country's experiences at aiding the poor during the past 15 years and drafting detailed plans for aid-the-poor with science and technology in the next five years.��
In the past 15 years, about 290,000 scientists and technicians have traveled to poverty-stricken areas to launch aid-the-poor activities and nearly 10 million farmers have been trained in the poor areas.��
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