Abstract:

Liantuan Village, an extremely impoverished village, is confronted with predicament of insufficient talent and infrastructure, slow progress of industrial development and inappropriate public service. The Jishou University task force in charge of helping lift the village out of poverty, during their work from 2015-2017, adopted various measures including well planning, improving human resources quality, breaking the bottleneck of infrastructure, flourishing featured industry, making up the demand of public service, strengthening grass root organization and beautifying the environment. With these measures, the per capita income increased from a little more than ￥2 000 in 2014 to about ￥10 000 in 2017. The rural poor people have no worry about food and clothing and have access to compulsory education, basic medical services, and the safe housing has been significantly improved. In 2017 the village as a whole was  lifted out of poverty.

Key words: extremely impoverished villages, poverty alleviation, village revitalization, task force, Liantuan Village