The Model of "Party Branch+" in Promoting Industrial Poverty Alleviation in Poverty-stricken Mountainous Areas of China:A Case Study of Xundian in Yunnan Province

The integration and development of grass-roots Party organizations and accurate poverty alleviation is the focus in social development in the new period. This is also a new measure explored by the CPC Central Committee in the new historical period to solve rural reform and extricate the poor from poverty, and can effectively enhance the enthusiasm of the masses in poverty alleviation and development work. Xundian Hui and Yi Autonomous County is located in the mountainous area of northeast Yunnan Province. It is one of the 592 national key counties for poverty alleviation and development and one of the 38 continuous development counties in Wumeng Mountain area. Since the implementation of the accurate poverty alleviation strategy, Xundian County insists on getting rid of poverty to grasp the overall situation of county economic and social development, focus on the actual situation of the county people, and conscientiously grasp the key of industrial poverty alleviation. It regards industry as the fundamental driving force to realize poverty alleviation from "blood transfusion" to "blood creation", and innovates the model of "Party branch+" to help the poor out of poverty by industry. It has selected 187 agricultural enterprises (cooperatives, large households) to achieve full coverage of all registered poor households, and achieved remarkable results. It has realized that each poor village has one to two leading industries, and each poor household has one to two industrial income projects, having led 30 500 poor households to increase their average income by more than 1 850 yuan. The final incidence of poverty decreased from 26.93% in 2014 to 0.35% at the end of 2017, becoming one of the first counties in Yunnan Province to get rid of poverty. It is also the only county in Yunnan Province that has won the Anti-poverty Organization Innovation Award of the State Council. Based on field research and interviews, this paper analyzes and summarizes the specific methods, main achievements, practical experience and popularization and application measures of Xundian County "Party Branch+" to promote industrial poverty alleviation, so as to provide necessary reference for accurate poverty reduction and poverty alleviation in similar mountainous areas of Yunnan Province and other provinces.