為加大對革命老區(qū)、民族地區(qū)、邊疆地區(qū)、貧困地區(qū)發(fā)展的扶持力度，國家大力開展定點(diǎn)扶貧工作。國家確定的定點(diǎn)幫扶單位主要包括中央和國家機(jī)關(guān)各部門各單位、人民團(tuán)體、參照公務(wù)員法管理的事業(yè)單位、國有大型骨干企業(yè)、國有控股金融機(jī)構(gòu)、各民主黨派中央及全國工商聯(lián)、國家重點(diǎn)科研院校等，定點(diǎn)幫扶對象為國家扶貧開發(fā)工作重點(diǎn)縣。多年來，定點(diǎn)幫扶單位采取干部掛職、基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施建設(shè)、產(chǎn)業(yè)化扶貧、勞務(wù)培訓(xùn)和輸出、文化教育扶貧、科技扶貧、引資扶貧、生態(tài)建設(shè)扶貧、醫(yī)療衛(wèi)生扶貧、救災(zāi)送溫暖等多樣化措施開展定點(diǎn)幫扶。目前，參與此項(xiàng)工作的單位達(dá)到272個(gè)，受到幫扶的國家扶貧開發(fā)工作重點(diǎn)縣達(dá)到481個(gè)，占國家扶貧開發(fā)工作重點(diǎn)縣總數(shù)的81.25%。從2002年至2010年，定點(diǎn)幫扶單位派出掛職干部3559人次，直接投入資金(含物資折款)90.9億元人民幣，幫助引進(jìn)資金339.1億元人民幣，培訓(xùn)各類人員168.4萬人次。中國各民主黨派中央及全國工商聯(lián)，積極發(fā)揮各自人力資源、資金動員、信息知識等方面的優(yōu)勢，與貧困地區(qū)建立結(jié)對幫扶機(jī)制，有效開展扶貧工作。

(Table 1. Central committees of the non-Communist parties, the All-China Federation of Industry & Commerce and key poverty-stricken areas they are paired to help)

To promote the development of the old revolutionary base areas, ethnic-minority areas, border areas and poor areas, China has put energetic efforts into poverty reduction work in some key poverty-stricken counties in those areas, with help coming from a number of organizations, including all departments and units of the Party central committee and state organs, people's organizations, institutions managed in accordance with the Law of the People's Republic of China on Civil Servants, key large-sized state-owned enterprises, state-holding financial institutions, central committees of non-Communist parties and All-China Federation of Industry & Commerce, and state key research institutions and universities. Over the past few years, those units and organizations have provided various forms of help to their targeted recipients in such aspects as sending cadres to the aided counties, helping them with infrastructure construction, industrialized operations, training of labor force and provision of labor services to other places, investment introduction, ecological construction and medical health services. They also provide their targeted recipients with assistance in culture, education, science and technology, in addition to aid in disaster relief. At present, the number of such units and organizations has reached 272, and the number of key poverty-stricken counties that have received aid has reached 481, accounting for 81.25 percent of the total number of such counties. From 2002 to 2010, these departments and units sent in total 3,559 cadres to do poverty reduction work in their aid-targeted poverty-stricken counties, ploughed in 9.09 billion yuan-worth of direct aid, both in cash and in kind, helped their recipients of aid introduce 33.91 billion yuan of support funds, and trained 1.684 million people of different caliber for the aid-recipients. Making full use of their own advantages in human resources, fund raising, information and knowledge, the central committees of all the non-Communist parties and All-China Federation of Industry & Commerce have been paired up with some poverty-stricken areas so as to effectively carry out poverty reduction work.

Pairing the more-developed provinces and municipalities in the east with the impoverished regions in the west in poverty reduction is a policy adopted by the Chinese government in its efforts to achieve common prosperity. Since 1996, the government has made arrangement for 15 economically more developed provinces and municipalities in the east to help 11 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) in the west get rid of poverty. The basic framework of this east-help-west cooperation is mainly comprised of government assistance, enterprise cooperation, social aid and human resource support. From 2003 to 2010, some 2,592 cadres were sent from the east to the west to hold temporary leading posts there, and 3,610 were sent from the west to the east for the same purpose. About 4.44 billion yuan-worth of assistance funds was provided and 5,684 enterprises were recommended by governments of the eastern regions for cooperation in this regard, resulting in 249.76 billion yuan actually ploughed in and 1.42 billion yuan in social donations, in addition to 226,000 technical personnel trained and 4.672 million people from the poverty-stricken areas providing labor services elsewhere.