以脱贫攻坚统揽经济社会发展全局

脱贫攻坚不仅是要使贫困人口如期全部脱贫，还要使贫困地区经济社会发展上一个台阶。中共中央总书记、中国国家主席习近平指出，深度贫困地区党委和政府要坚持把脱贫攻坚作为“十三五”期间的头等大事和第一民生工程来抓，坚持以脱贫攻坚统揽经济社会发展全局。

脱贫攻坚不仅要围绕贫困人口脱贫做工作，同样要以区域经济社会全面发展为前提。精准扶贫的实践不仅是中国社会政策领域的创新，同时也包含了区域经济发展的创新。随着脱贫攻坚的深入，原有贫困县不断脱贫摘帽，县域经济社会发展迈上了新台阶。在精准扶贫实践的进程中，不仅县域发展的基础设施与公共服务水平有了较大提升，地方政府的治理能力也得到了锻炼，为经济社会可持续发展奠定了良好基础。在脱贫摘帽县中，一些地方不仅彻底摆脱了贫困县的帽子，而且形成了良好的产业格局和经济环境。

以脱贫攻坚统揽经济社会发展全局，要重点以县域经济社会发展为基础。习近平指出，县级党委是全县脱贫攻坚的总指挥部，县委书记要统揽脱贫攻坚，统筹做好进度安排、项目落地、资金使用、人力调配、推进实施等工作。

OVERALL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT THROUGH POVERTY ELIMINATION

The goals of China’s poverty elimination campaign are to lift all disadvantaged people out of poverty, and to bring local economic and social development to a higher level. Xi Jinping has demanded that the local authorities and Party committees in severely impoverished areas make poverty elimination their top priority and the most important project for improving the people’s wellbeing during the 13th Five-year Plan period (2016-2020). They should focus on poverty elimination in local overall social and economic development.

As well as helping the impoverished population, regional development also deserves great attention. Targeted poverty alleviation is a Chinese innovation in social policy and in regional economic development. As more and more poor counties succeed in eliminating poverty, their economic and social development has been raised to a new level. Infrastructure and public services have been improved, and the local governments’ governance capability has been enhanced, thus laying a solid foundation for sustainable development. Some of these counties, once very poor, now have a much better industrial configuration and economic environment.

County social and economic development will be the foundation. As Xi Jinping says, county CPC committees should be the headquarters of the poverty elimination campaign, and county Party committee secretaries should take overall charge of poverty elimination – coordinating schedules, launching projects, allocating funds, assigning personnel, and implementing projects.