Abstract:Located in the Center of loess plateau, adjacent area of Shanxi-Gansu-Ningxia, including Yanan, Yulin of Shaanxi province, Wuzhong, Guyuan in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Pingliang, Qingyang in Gansu province, cover a total area of 152800km2 where more than 13.66 million people of different nationalities are residing.The area is one of the poorest areas in west China and lags behind the developed areas because of its historical, economic, social, natural and geographical conditions.At the end of 2000, there are still half of million people who are living in absolute poverty.
In order to quickening process of antipoverty, the authors put forward the following suggestion.
①Decreasing the population in poor area by quickening the process of urbanization, encouraging and supporting poor rural households with extremely difficult living environment to move out of areas, transferring labor forces from poor areas into towns or cities to increase the chance of employment.② Accelerating the construction of transportation to improve spatial accessibility of the adjacent with outside.Especially paying great attention to constructing highway between main cities in the adjacent and outside.③Strengthening ecological environmental protection.④Controlling the growth of population, developing public health and education, improving the quality of the poor.⑤Seizing opportunities to develop special economy based on its natural and human resources, constructing production bases of local specialty with high quality, developing fine products and comprehensive utilization of resources. Furthermore, a favorable system should be created by government of various levels.⑥Developing the village and town enterprises and non-public economy vigorously.⑦Devoting more efforts to the development of tourism.
The countermeasures of the institution innovation in the adjacent in new century are as follows:①Increasing the state capital and favorable policies support for poverty area.②Forming compensation mechanism of ecological protection that aims to compensating the expenditure on ecological environment.③Abolishing policies of food self-support in eco-fragile areas.④Endow ing the local government with ownership of large-scale mineral resources, no matter who exploit, local governments must have more much share of interest in exploitation of those resources.
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LI Zhi-gang, LIU Xiao-chun. COUNTERMEASURES OF ANTIPOVERTY IN ADJACENT AREA OF SHANXI-GANSU-NINGXIA. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2003, 18(2): 7-10.