Training Session Targets Poverty-alleviation among Women through Micro-Loans Policy

湖南省ByHuang Yun September 2, 2015

President of Hunan Women's Federation Du Yaling gives a speech at the training session's opening ceremony in Yongzhou on August 27. [Hunan Women's Federation/Huang Yun]

The Hunan Women's Federation held a training session in Yongzhou, a city of south China's Hunan Province, on August 27-28, designed to encourage implementation of the instructions by officials on poverty-alleviation and giving financial assistance to underprivileged women to help support their new business plans.

The training session was designed to follow the recommendations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the State Council, the Hunan CPC Provincial Committee and Hunan Provincial People's Government, and help such women in their start-up and development activities.

During the two-day training event, staff from local bureaus of finance and employment service, along with banking sector, lectured attendees about how to better implement financial policies on poverty-alleviation and give financial assistance to poverty-stricken women to help them create employment.

Those in attendance at the opening ceremony on August 27 included President of Hunan Women's Federation Du Yaling, Director of Hunan Bureau of Employment Service Tan Wenbo; Member of the Standing Committee of the Yongzhou CPC Municipal Committee and Vice Mayor of the Yongzhou Municipal People's Government Jiang Shansheng; Deputy Director of the Yongzhou Municipal Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development Zhang Zhiyong; and, senior officials from municipal women's federations across the entire region.

At the opening, Du said that the CPC Central Committee and the State Council had attached great attention to the work on target poverty-alleviation and giving financial assistance to underprivileged women in their businesses, since it was of great importance to the building of a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and the further improvement of poverty-stricken women's life under current social circumstances.

President Xi Jinping announced a guideline on the implementation of targeting poverty-alleviation during an inspection tour to Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hunan in November 2013, and made more specific instructions about the work this July.

Meanwhile, the State Council released a document about the Opinion on Further Improving the Employment and Entrepreneurship in the New Situation this April, according to which women can apply for a loan of up to 100,000 yuan (U.S.$ 15,700) in line with the policy of granting small-loans to women in their business start-up and other activities. All these conditions will provide target women with fresh opportunities in their business activities and urge women's federations across the whole country to assume their responsibilities in the process.

In her speech, Du added that staff members from local women's federations at various levels should proactively work on the implementation of the issue, to enable target women to seek more professional guidance and favorable policies, and further raise their competence in the management of their businesses.

According to the Hunan Women's Federation, the province has released a total of over five billion yuan (U.S.$ 786 million) under the scheme of small-loans to help around 75,000 women further the growth of their business adventures, which created more than 220,000 employment opportunities for women as a whole, in the past several years. Meanwhile, the federation has provided target women with free medical checks-up against breast and cervical cancer, technical training and other means of assistance as a way to help them beat poverty.

Deputy Director of the Yongzhou Municipal Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development Zhang Zhiyong speaks about relevant policies and regulations at the training session's opening ceremony. [Hunan Women's Federation/Huang Yun]

Attendees at the training session's opening ceremony. [Hunan Women's Federation/Huang Yun]

(Provided by the Hunan Women's Federation/Huang Yun)

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