To fulfill poverty alleviation goal requires govts’ dedicated efforts
THE LOCAL LAND resources bureau of Dangyang city, Central China’s Hubei province, has published on its website a report about its poverty alleviation efforts for 2017. After the media reported that it was the same as a previous report of their counterpart in Guanyang county in Southwest China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, the local government admitted having copied the Guangxi report. People’s Daily comments:
Government officials have been rendering tireless efforts in order to realize the mission of the Communist Party of China to lift all poor people out of poverty by 2020. But while there are many good examples of government departments working hard to help raise people out of poverty, there are bad examples, too. The land resources bureau of Dangyang is one of them. Having received their assignments from higher authorities, they simply held meetings or gave poor people some money or materials, instead of truly helping them. The Dangyang officials must have achieved little in their daily work, which resulted in them having nothing to say when it came to writing their work report, so they simply copied the report of others who had worked hard to help the poor.
Worse, some officials reportedly falsify documents
and data, while certain bureaucrats even attempt to embezzle poverty alleviation funds. These illicit moves must be addressed not only because they seriously hinder the grand poverty alleviation process, but because they are against the law and violate Party rules. Some of the persons involved have already broken the law, which warrants legal penalties.
There is not much time left to achieve the goal of lifting all poor people out of poverty by 2020. Yet there are still about 40 million people living in poverty, and it needs more efforts to help them all. That in turn requires governmental staff and Party members nationwide to work harder.
And the prerequisite for this shall be stricter discipline for Party members. Those who falsify data and documents, instead of truly helping those in need, must pay for their misdeeds.