On August 12, the Sichuan Province 2024 Mobilization and Deployment Meeting for the Concentrated Inspection on Monitoring and Assistance Programs to Prevent Poverty Relapse and Onset, along with the Business Training Session, was held in Chengdu. This gathering signified the official launch of the province's intensive effort to pinpoint issues in the monitoring and assistance initiatives aimed at sustaining poverty alleviation and preventing relapse into poverty.

Concentrated inspection is a crucial component of the routine mechanism designed to prevent the recurrence of poverty and the onset of new poverty cases. In accordance with the relevant requirements, it is mandatory to carry out at least one concentrated inspection annually focused on this aspect.

The reporter learned from the meeting that Sichuan's concentrated inspection covers seven key areas: identifying risks of poverty recurrence and onset among rural households, assessing the income status of poverty-alleviated families and monitoring subjects, evaluating the implementation of assistance measures for tracking subjects, verifying the stability of risk elimination for tracking subjects, identifying significant potential risk factors, ensuring data quality, and assessing the dissemination of policies related to monitoring and assistance.

In terms of identifying risks of poverty recurrence and onset among rural households, efforts are primarily focused on two areas: key regions and key groups. First, key regions include counties prioritized for rural revitalization assistance, centralized resettlement areas for relocation groups, and areas with a heavier task of consolidating and expanding the achievements in poverty alleviation, as well as regions experiencing major natural disasters since last year, areas with a significant decrease in the number of newly added tracking subjects, and regions heavily tasked with rectifying issues identified in the 2023 annual assessment regarding the coordination of consolidating and expanding poverty alleviation achievements with rural revitalization efforts. Second, key groups are identified as households facing a significant decline in income or employment instability, as well as those particularly affected by natural disasters, fluctuations in agricultural product prices, and other unexpected accidents. For key groups in 2023, such as poverty-alleviated individuals with low to middle incomes and those experiencing a notable decline in revenue, household-by-household inspections should be conducted, in principle, and those meeting the specified criteria should be formally recognized as tracking subjects through the established procedures so as to ensures that the concern of merely providing a safety net is effectively addressed and that no one who ought to be covered is missed.

Regarding the progress of the work, the meeting stipulated that by August 16, all levels should have inspection teams in place, primarily consisting of town and village assistance outreach officials, members of resident work teams, village-level grid forces, and monitoring contacts. By August 30, a comprehensive inspection of all rural households will be conducted using three approaches: household visits, online communication, and villagers' group assessments. In terms of organizational support, four-tiered working groups at the provincial, municipal, county, and township levels will be established to ensure the orderly and effective implementation of the concentrated inspection work.