Notice of the general office of the provincial people's government on printing and distributing the measures for the administration of poverty alleviation funds in Guizhou Province

Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 These Measures are formulated in accordance with the Measures for the Administration of National Poverty Alleviation Funds (the State Council [1997] No.24) and relevant policies and regulations, and in light of the actual situation in Guizhou. Article 2 Poverty alleviation funds include: funds issued by the state every year to support the development of economically underdeveloped areas, new financial poverty alleviation funds, work-for-poverty funds, poverty alleviation project funds, poverty alleviation loans (including new poverty alleviation loans and lending poverty alleviation loans), poverty alleviation project loans from China Southwest World Bank, local supporting poverty alleviation funds and poverty alleviation funds donated at home and abroad. Article 3 All poverty alleviation funds invested by the state and matched by local governments shall be arranged as a whole according to the tasks, objectives and requirements stipulated in the National Poverty Alleviation Plan (Guo Fa [1994] No.30) and Guizhou Poverty Alleviation Plan (Qian Fu Fa [1994] No.33). Fourth adhere to the development-oriented poverty alleviation policy, adhere to poverty alleviation to households. Poverty alleviation funds are mainly invested in poor townships, villages and poor households in poor counties. 85% of poverty alleviation funds are used to solve the problem of people's food and clothing, and 85% of poverty alleviation loans are used for planting, aquaculture and agricultural and sideline products processing. Actively promote microfinance to help the poor, and give priority to supporting poor households to develop production. Planting and aquaculture projects undertaken by economic entities must be supported by projects and funds, and industrial projects such as agricultural and sideline products processing industries must attract poor households to find jobs and bear corresponding responsibility for poverty alleviation. Chapter II Scope of Use of Poverty Alleviation Funds Article 5 Development funds to support economically underdeveloped areas and newly-added financial poverty alleviation funds are mainly used to improve agricultural production conditions in poverty-stricken areas, develop diversified businesses, build township roads and village roads, popularize compulsory education and develop vocational and technical education, eliminate illiteracy, carry out practical agricultural technical training and prevent endemic diseases. Article 6 Work-for-relief funds are mainly used for road construction in counties, townships and villages, basic farmland construction, farmland water conservancy construction, drinking water projects for people and livestock, and comprehensive management of rural electricity, communications and ecology. Seventh eager for project funds, mainly for the construction of small puddles, small pools, small ponds, where conditions permit, water diversion and lifting facilities can be built to alleviate the drinking water difficulties of people and animals in rural areas. Article 8 Poverty alleviation loans are credit funds specially used for poverty alleviation and need to repay the principal and interest within a certain period of time. Poverty alleviation loans include poverty alleviation discount loans and general poverty alleviation loans. Poverty alleviation discount loans are all micro-loans, which are used for the development of poor households, with less investment, quick results and high benefits, and are helpful to directly solve the planting and aquaculture projects with adequate food and clothing; General poverty alleviation loans are mainly used for micro-credit projects in planting, breeding and processing industries with local agricultural and sideline products as raw materials, which can be used for industries and projects that are conducive to improving production conditions and have remarkable economic and social benefits, mainly including: the development and utilization of barren hills, slopes and wastewater, the production base of agricultural, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery commodities and pillar industries with moderate scale; Resource-developing, labor-intensive township enterprises that can give full play to the resource advantages of poor areas and vigorously arrange the employment of poor farmers, county, township and village power transmission and transformation lines, small hydropower construction and infrastructure construction with repayment sources; A very small number of villages, cooperatives and farmers with particularly difficult living and development conditions export labor services and carry out development or migration in different places.

Recovered refinancing poverty alleviation loans should be used in combination with new poverty alleviation loans. In principle, 70% is used for planting and aquaculture projects, and 30% is used for the continuation, over-budget, flow and new construction of agricultural and sideline products processing industry and general industrial projects. Article 9 China Southwest World Bank loans for poverty alleviation projects are used to support county education, health, infrastructure, labor export, agriculture, secondary and tertiary industries, project monitoring and institution building. Tenth local matching funds and provincial matching funds are all used for supporting projects supported by poverty alleviation loans in poverty-stricken counties; The matching funds at the county level are mainly used for projects supported by poverty alleviation loans from poor social organizations, and can also be used for poverty alleviation and development projects in poor townships and villages in non-poor counties. Article 11 The poverty alleviation funds donated at home and abroad shall be used to improve the production and living conditions of poor households in poverty-stricken counties determined by the state, and to develop planting and aquaculture production directly related to solving the problem of food and clothing, unless explicitly requested by the donors. Chapter III Management of Poverty Alleviation Funds Article 12 Poverty Alleviation Funds shall be managed in a planned way. After receiving the central poverty alleviation fund allocation plan, the Provincial Poverty Alleviation and Development Office puts forward the allocation plan within 15 working days according to the number of poor people in poverty-stricken counties, poverty procedures, the efficiency of poverty alleviation funds and the proportion of matching funds, and the recovery of overdue loans, and submits it to the provincial poverty alleviation and development leading group for approval. In addition to the poverty alleviation loan plan, it will reach the provincial planning commission and the provincial finance department of the local, state and municipal people's governments (administrative offices), and issue specific plan indicators according to the procedures according to the distribution plan determined by the provincial leading group for poverty alleviation and development. The provincial branch of Agricultural Bank of China shall, according to the distribution scheme determined by the poverty alleviation loan plan issued by Agricultural Bank of China and the provincial leading group for poverty alleviation and development, timely reach the secondary branch of Agricultural Bank of China under the poverty alleviation loan plan and send a copy to the local, state and municipal people's governments (administrative offices). After receiving the plan indicators issued by the province, all localities, prefectures and cities will decompose the plan indicators into poverty-stricken counties within 10 working days according to the principles and requirements of the plan issued by the province, and report the distribution plan to the relevant departments of the province for the record.