Inspections are shot in the arm for poverty alleviation

How the targeted poverty alleviation efforts fare is key to the goal of building the country into a better-off society by the year 2020. This is a challenging task as more than 30 million poverty-stricken rural villagers still need to be lifted out of poverty in two years.

That explains why the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and State Supervision Commission announced on Tuesday that a new round of inspections will focus on the poverty alleviation work. Covering poverty alleviation work in 13 provinces, as well as 11 central government departments and two State-owned agricultural banks, the inspections will seek to uncover the problems that hamper the poverty alleviation efforts from achieving their goal.

Discipline inspection departments and procuratorates nationwide have already uncovered more than 45,000 cases involving poverty alleviation work in the first six months of this year. These include corruption, bureaucracy and bad working style, which have not only compromised the results of the poverty alleviation endeavors but also cast a shadow over the prospects for the work.