“Straw Hat University” Initiated by “Farmer&amp;apos;s Professor”, the Tried and Tested Approach to Alleviate Poverty in China

Tan Yong

doi:10.11648/j.ss.20211003.13

Abstract

China is out of extreme poverty in 2020 on schedule and one decade in advance to fulfill the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), then became the first developing country to alleviate poverty in half century. Therefore, a large numbers of effective approaches are emerging, and the intellectual’s technology-led poverty reduction, which locally known as the “Straw Hat University” initiated by “Farmer's professor” mode, is the most tried and tested approach motivated by the intellectual’s “Serve the people” tradition and supported by the all nation. This research conduct case analysis with three most remarkable organic intellectuals as Agronomist Yuan longping, Mycologist Lin Zhanxi and Plant pathologist Zhu Youyong with their bridging gaps in food security, regional imbalance and ethnic disparity respectively to sort out the sustainable modules and universal experiences. The conclusion indicates that “Farmer's Professor” initiated “Straw Hat University” is an effective approach to solve human beings’ development problems and benefit the livelihoods, especially in the under development regions; and the authentic down to earth experiments into productivity as well as the Intellectual property transformation is the perfect path to deploy offline and online resources building the effective production and supply chain to integrate industries by intellectual’s critical innovation with worldwide effects.

Highlights

With three-decade poverty reduction plus another five-year targeted poverty alleviation making above 98,990,000 rural population out of extreme poverty in 2020 on schedule despite of turbulent influence after COVID-19 pandemic, China is the first developing country to achieve the poverty eradication target set by the UN 2030 Agenda for SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) 10 years in advance which Chinese President Xi Jinping announced on February 25 of 2021
The method used was descriptive method by case study approach to sort out the formation and operation on "Straw Hat University", and explore the functions and roles of "Farmer's Professor" in rural poverty alleviation to unveil the correlation among the individuals, organizations and government
The “Straw Hat University” initiated by “Farmer's professor” mode is an emerging tried and tested approach during the national course on poverty alleviation supported by the all walks of the country and motivated by the intellectual’s “Serve the people” tradition

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Introduction

With three-decade poverty reduction plus another five-year targeted poverty alleviation making above 98,990,000 rural population (covers 832 impoverished counties and 128,000 poor villages) out of extreme poverty in 2020 on schedule despite of turbulent influence after COVID-19 pandemic, China is the first developing country to achieve the poverty eradication target set by the UN 2030 Agenda for SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) 10 years in advance which Chinese President Xi Jinping announced on February 25 of 2021. Under the concerted efforts of the whole nation, many top-to-down approaches which effectively targeted the poverty alleviation are emerging; and the intellectuals involved and initiated brand new modules are no exception. 2. Chinese Intellectuals' Serving the People Tradition. For more than 2000 years, Confucianism dominated Chinese culture and society; and Chinese intellectuals was the faithful transmitter bearing the ideology of diverse Confucian ideas in their values and social life so as to constitute the organizational norms to devote themselves for the state and serve the people [3]

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