Although the goal of poverty alleviation in 2020 has been set, poverty alleviation cannot be a one-man show of "cadres doing things and the masses watching". Through competitive policy design such as "more help early and less help late", poor households who are used to "waiting for money and other things and lying down" will come forward to do it.

I recently chatted with the first secretary of a poor village. He lamented that poverty alleviation at the grassroots level was not easy to do. The most puzzling thing is that some poor households still rely heavily on it, and even some poor households spit out the "truth" to the pair of helping cadres: help me do a good job, I won't get rid of poverty, you can't get rid of it, and it will hold you back. The feeling of "being kidnapped" makes cadres very depressed. ...

The phenomenon of "one-man show to help the poor" that the first secretary said "cadres do it and the masses look at it" does exist. The reason is not only the ideological problem of poor households, but also the problem of helping methods. Undeniably, there are indeed some poor households who are lazy, "waiting for help and lying still", which is one of the important reasons why they are still poor. On the other hand, it goes without saying that, under the pressure of target responsibility system, performance appraisal, dismissal if incompetent, etc., in order to get poor couples out of poverty as soon as possible, some helping cadres have done too much "doing it for them", while the poor people have stood by.

How to change the phenomenon of "cadres help and farmers look after" in the current poverty alleviation?

The right medicine, of course, is to stimulate the endogenous motivation of the poor people and change "I want to get rid of poverty" into "I want to get rid of poverty".

Help the poor first. Long-term poverty can easily kill people's fighting spirit and gradually lose confidence in a better life. Long-term blood transfusion poverty alleviation in some places has also made some poor people suffer from path dependence, but most poor people are still willing to live a good life through hard work with help. To get rid of poverty, an important task is to help the poor get rid of the "roadblocks" in their hearts. In practical work, in addition to publicity and education, poor people can also be organized to visit the typical successful poverty alleviation, especially the successful cases around them. By seeing is believing, we will enhance our confidence in getting rid of poverty.

Improve policy design and encourage poor people to wait and act actively. In the design of relevant systems, we should not let hard work be inferior to laziness, and at the same time send a clear policy signal to the poor: only when the policy supports hard work and wealth can the basic life be guaranteed. To improve the relevant poverty alleviation policies, we should not fall into the welfare trap of "squatting in the sun and waiting for others to send a well-off life". In addition to being inclusive, many policy supports can also appropriately introduce a competitive mechanism, and through the policy arrangement of "more support early and less support late", the enthusiasm and initiative of the poor people can be more effectively mobilized, so that those poor households who are used to "waiting for money and other things and lying down" can stand up and do it.

Secondly, it is necessary to improve the specific methods of assistance work so that both sides can become the same subject of poverty alleviation. Take industrial poverty alleviation as an example. When choosing poverty alleviation industries, try not to choose projects that are too "sophisticated" and difficult for most poor people to master after training, which will easily lead them to "retreat" or "stand by and watch". We should try our best to guide the poor people to choose local characteristic industries with certain foundations and advantages, lower the industrial threshold, enhance their ability to resist risks, and improve the participation of the poor people and the success rate of poverty alleviation by providing poverty alleviation loans, technical guidance and popularizing agricultural insurance. Don't send money and materials to help the poor in industry. Try to let poor households share some costs. The amount can be small, but if they pay, poor households will care more. Helping cadres should always remind themselves that it is better to teach people to fish than to teach people to fish, and poor households are the "protagonists" in poverty alleviation.

Finally, the current poverty alleviation work should strengthen the orientation of improving the development ability of the poor. We will improve the existing assessment mechanism for poverty alleviation, change the income index of "one family is the only one", and take improving the development ability of the poor as an important index. In this way, we can better guide helping cadres not to be eager for quick success and instant benefit, but to pay more attention to improving their skills through training and guidance, improving their market expansion ability through sales, and gradually improving the "hematopoietic" ability of poor people, so as to achieve more stable and quality poverty alleviation.

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