Assessment of the Subject Designing for the Research on Poverty Alleviation Policies in China Bordering Poor Areas and Policy Seminar by IPRCC

　　December 27, 2005, IPRCC held Assessment of the Subject Designing for the Research on Poverty Alleviation Policies in China Bordering Poor Areas and Policy Seminar in Beijing. The seminar was chaired by Zhang Lei, Managing Director of IPRCC and attended by Xu Hui, Deputy Director General of the Financial Department, LGOPAD, Huang Zhongcai, Inspector of the Department of Policies and Regulations, State Ethnic Affairs Commission and staff of poverty-related agencies in Yunan Province and Xinjiang Autonomous Region. The seminar invited specialists from China Agriculture University, China Central Ethnic University and Institute of Macro-economics, NDRC to be the assessors.
　　The seminar started with a brief introduction of the project and its implementation by Zhang Lei who was followed by Professor Wen Tiejun, Dean of School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Renmin University, and subject designing team members for the research elaborating on the framework of research, the main report and seven sub-reports. Fruitful discussions and Q & As were conducted among all the seminar participants and assessors referring to the content and conclusion of the project and relevant policy issues in bordering and ethnic minority areas. By the end of the event, assessors gave their result of assessment.