billion RMB (approximately US$13 billion) to poverty alleviation funds. Additionally, the China Development Bank has pledged 400 billion RMB (approximately US$57 billion) for the combat of poverty. Besides through the remarkable financial commitment, the PRC also mobilizes large parts of the political system as well as of the private sector to achieve its objective of poverty alleviation. A National Poverty Registration System In January 2014, the Central People's Government of the PRC published the "Opinions on Innovative Mechanisms to Promote Rural Poverty Alleviation and Development". In order to find the “real poor” and “really alleviate poverty” the state planned a national database (jiandang lika) where every poor household (instead of county) is registered, where their progress can be tracked and where they can be “managed dynamically”. By 2019, the system registered data of 128,000 villages and 290,000 households. It identified Guizhou, Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan and Yunnan as the most poverty-stricken areas. “Decisions of the Central Committee of the CPC and the State Council on Winning the Battle of Poverty Eradication” In November 2015, the Central Conference on Poverty Alleviation and Development adopted the “Decisions of the Central Committee of the CCP and the State Council on Winning the Battle of Poverty Eradication”, emphasizing the urgency of poverty alleviation in China. The guiding principles of the Decisions are the following: 1) The Four Modernizations of former core leader Deng Xiaoping; 2) The thinking of the "three representatives" (三个代表); 3) Hu Jintao‘s concept of scientific development, including economic production, cultural development and political consensus; 4) The spirit of the series of keynote speeches by General Secretary Xi Jinping around the Four Comprehensives: Comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society; Comprehensively deepening the reform; Comprehensively governing the nation according to law; Comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. The Decisions develop several goals: They aim to solve “ - the “two no worries” (i.e. the food and clothing problem) as well as the “three guarantees” (i.e. guaranteed access to education, medical care and housing). Furthermore, for 2020, the per capita average of rural farmers is targeted above the national average. In order to achieve these goals, the government implements several strategies such as resettlement and industrial development of impoverished rural areas. The Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for Poverty Alleviation In December 2016, the State Council of the People's Republic of China issued the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for Poverty Alleviation", proposing to adhere to the combination of