How will China drive farmers out of poverty and become rich?

According to the report, China has explored and formed ecological poverty alleviation methods in practice, such as developing environmental protection industries, poor people participating in ecological protection construction and maintenance, ecological compensation and migration. Since the end of 1990s, China government has implemented key ecological projects, such as the construction of the Three-North Shelterbelt System, the protection of natural forest resources, returning farmland to forests and grasslands, the control of sandstorms in Beijing and Tianjin, the control of rocky desertification in karst areas, and the protection of the Three Rivers in Qinghai. In the past ten years, hundreds of demonstration areas of soil and water conservation ecological construction have been built in the past soil and water loss areas, and a large number of soil and water conservation industrial bases have been cultivated.

In the process of ecological restoration and construction, various localities have explored and summarized the ways to help the poor by improving the ecological environment and helping the poor, mainly including: building basic farmland for ecological management, organizing and mobilizing the poor to participate in ecological protection construction projects, combining with major national ecological projects, developing caged protective agriculture according to local conditions, and vigorously developing eco-forestry industries with economic benefits.

Zhang Qi, dean of China Institute for Poverty Alleviation of Beijing Normal University, said that green ecology is the most precious resource and core competitiveness in poverty-stricken areas. The key to bringing "green mountains and green hills" to "Jinshan Yinshan" is to give green resources longer-term significance and value. In the future, green poverty reduction should mobilize the power of the government, enterprises and society, make overall plans for development and protection, guide enterprises and farmers to establish a diversified benefit-sharing mechanism, guide enterprises to continuously improve market competitiveness and industrial development benefits through innovative technologies, and drive farmers out of poverty and become rich.