Let the "Rain and Dew Program" benefit more impoverished farmers.

by bingyu on 2006-12-03 11:43:34

"The Rain-dew Plan" is one of the three major key poverty alleviation projects implemented in the new phase by the Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development under the State Council. Its main task is to help young and middle-aged farmers in impoverished areas solve practical difficulties encountered in employment and entrepreneurship. It is characterized by government leadership and social participation, with the aim of enhancing quality and strengthening the ability to work and start businesses. Vocational education, entrepreneurial training, and agricultural practical technical training are used as means, and promoting transfer employment and independent entrepreneurship as pathways, ultimately achieving the goal of improving the quality of the labor force in impoverished areas and increasing income for poor farmers. During the "11th Five-Year Plan" period, about 5 million young and middle-aged poor farmers who have received training and around 300,000 demobilized veterans from impoverished areas will be successfully transferred to employment through vocational skills training; through entrepreneurship training, about 150,000 cadres and wealth-building backbone personnel from key villages for poverty alleviation and development work will truly become leaders in building a new socialist countryside in impoverished areas; through agricultural practical technical training, at least one laborer in each poor household will master 1-2 agricultural production technologies with a certain level of scientific and technological content.