title: An integration programme of poverty alleviation and development with family planning.
abstract: The State Council (the central government) recently issued a Circular for Speeding Up the Integration of Poverty Alleviation and Development with the Family Planning Programme during the Ninth Five-year Plan (1996-2000).  The Circular was jointly submitted by the State Family Planning Commission and the Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation and Development.  The document sets the two major tasks as solving the basic needs for food and clothing of the rural destitute and the control of over-rapid growth of China's population.  Practice indicates that a close Integration Programme is the best way for impoverished farmers to alleviate poverty and become better-off.  Overpopulation and low educational attainments and poor health quality of population in backward areas are the major factors retarding socioeconomic development.  Therefore, it is inevitable to integrate poverty alleviation with family planning.  It is a path with Chinese characteristics for a balanced population and sustainable socioeconomic development.  The targets of the Integration Programme are as follows: The first is that preferential policies should be worked out to guarantee family planning acceptors, especially households with an only daughter or two daughters, are the first to be helped to eradicate poverty and become well-off.  They should become good examples for other rural poor in practicing fewer but healthier births, and generating family income.  The second target is that the population plans for the poor counties identified by the central government and provincial governments must be fulfilled.  This should contribute to breaking the vicious circle of poverty leading to more children, in turn generating more poverty.  The circular demands that more efforts should focus on the training of cadres for the Integrated Programme and on services for poor family planning acceptors.
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D002681:China; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005202:Asia, Eastern; D006078:Government Programs; D006285:Health Planning; D009934:Organization and Administration; D011203:Poverty; D011640:Public Policy; D012922:Social Change; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Asia; China; Developing Countries; Development Policy; Eastern Asia; Economic Development; Economic Factors; Family Planning; Family Planning Programs; Government Sponsored Programs; Integrated Programs; Organization And Administration; Policy; Poverty; Programs; Social Development; Socioeconomic Factors