Villagers help a poverty-stricken family repair their house in Shencha Village, Guyuan City, Northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, on Jul. 16, 2018.2020-09-24 16:21
Workers decorate a resettlement house built for poverty-stricken migrants in Meizi Town, Ankang, Shaanxi Province, on Nov. 23, 2017. Poor families in mountainous areas have moved into new communities in the town.2020-09-24 16:20
Tibetans build a new house in a village in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, on Oct. 13, 2013.2020-09-24 16:19
A farmer makes beancurd sticks at a workshop in Zhuzhou Village, Sanming, Fujian Province, on Dec. 2, 2018. The local government allocated poverty alleviation funds to develop rural ecotourism and local cuisine.2020-09-24 16:17
Villagers distill baijiu, or Chinese white liquor, using traditional methods in Gangoukou Village in Shangluo, Shaanxi Province, on Jan. 17, 2020. They sell the liquor locally and to neighboring areas.2020-09-24 16:16
Villagers in Lvliang, Shanxi Province, leave for Beijing to work on Nov. 16, 2017. Rural women are given training in nursing to help them find jobs in cities.2020-09-24 16:15
A couple from Guizhou Province pick up garbage in the Minjiang River estuary wetland in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, on Feb. 19, 2017. They took the job eight years ago, which helped them rise out of poverty and protect the wetland’s environment.2020-09-24 16:14
Villagers construct a cement road in the mountainous Zuluo Village in Baoji, Shaanxi Province, on Dec. 17, 2017. The road offers the village and its produce access to the outside world.2020-09-24 16:13
Passengers on the No. 5630 train watch a hit online video on Apr. 15, 2020. The slow train service, operated by Railway Chengdu Group Co., Ltd. in the 1970s to help villagers in poor regions commute, has become a lifeline for their economic development and helped lift people there out of poverty.2020-09-24 16:13
Conductors help a vegetable grower get off the train at Tongzi Station in Zunyi, Guizhou Province, on Apr. 16, 2020. The No. 5630 slow train, which connects Zunyi with Southwest China’s Chongqing and passes through many villages, provides transportation for people living along the line.2020-09-24 16:12
A villager carrying ducks gets off the No. 5633 train in Puxiong Town, in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, on Jun. 1, 2019. The slow train, running through Puxiong and Panzhihua in Sichuan helps villagers in poor regions commute and allows them to carry livestock with them to trade in the market.2020-09-24 16:11
A train replica by the riverbank in Xinnan Village, Luanchuan county, Central China’s Henan Province, offers leisure facilities to visitors. The village has become a popular tourist destination after China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. helped build a “railway town” under its poverty alleviation program.2020-09-24 16:10
A villager cleans his chicken farm in Xiaode Town, Mianzhu, Sichuan Province, on Jan. 19, 2020.2020-09-24 16:08
Ji Daoming looks for information on raising geese before going to bed in Meishan Village in Lu’an, Anhui Province, on Jul. 2, 2019. Ji has led 30 poverty-stricken families to raise 50 cattle, 1,000 geese, and fish and shrimp, which benefited at least 130 families. He was given a national award for poverty alleviation that year.2020-09-24 16:07
A couple sends ducks to customers in Zhuhai Town, Changning County in Yibin, Sichuan Province, on Feb. 2, 2018. Farmers in the county have set up poultry farms to diversify its agricultural economy and alleviate poverty.2020-09-24 16:05
Huang Qing, a villager from South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, smiles after he receives chicks for free from the village’s poverty alleviation task force. Huang’s family fell into poverty due to illness, but the task force used targeted measures to help the family pull out of poverty in 2019.2020-09-24 16:04
Mongolian artist Zhu Liansheng plays a self-made morin khuur, or the horsehead fiddle, on the grasslands in Baicheng, Jilin Province, on Jul. 13, 2019.2020-09-24 16:03
Tursungul Remaz milks a camel in Huangtuchang village in Hami, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on May 24, 2020. Villagers have risen out of poverty by developing animal husbandry.2020-09-24 16:03
Herdsmen spend the night in the snow at -30℃ while moving their sheep to winter pastures in Altay Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on Dec. 7, 2012.2020-09-24 15:56
Herdsmen have lunch outside a village in Meigu County, Sichuan Province, on Jul. 28, 2017. Farmers of the Yi ethnic group in the county take turns to help one another with grazing so that they have more time for farming and housework.2020-09-24 15:55
A couple of the Miao ethnic group carry rice seedlings on a terrace in Jiache Village in Guizhou Province, on Jun. 3, 2019.The local government has paved roads to improve farming conditions, help transport locally produced glutinous rice and bring more tourists to the village.2020-09-24 15:54
A fruit grower delivers cherries to a buyer in a village in Zaozhuang, Shandong Province, on May 17, 2020.2020-09-24 15:52
Women of the Miao ethnic group carry loads of vegetables picked from a plantation near Pingzhao Village in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, on Mar. 24, 2019. Their incomes rose after they leased more than 5 hectares of wasteland to plant vegetables in 2017.2020-09-24 15:51
Villagers dry peppers at Haoshun new village, Minqin County, Gansu Province, on Sept. 23, 2017. They have become shareholders and workers in an agricultural development company and earn 3,000 yuan ($424) each month. In 2017, the village allocated 110 houses to the villagers.2020-09-24 15:50
Farmers ride a tricycle to go home after finishing work at a ginseng breeding base in Huinan County, Tonghua, Northeast China’s Jilin Province, on Jul. 11, 2017. Tonghua, known as “the hometown of ginseng”, has integrated the ginseng industry with research, production and processing.2020-09-24 15:49
A farmer displays freshly harvested sweet potatoes at a village in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, on Oct. 18, 2018.2020-09-24 15:47
Dang Yufu and his wife harvest hongyingzi sorghum, a high-yield variety from Shandong Province, in Hejia’ang Village in Yulin, Shaanxi Province, on Oct. 23, 2018. Twenty-four families in the village have got rid of poverty by growing about 70 hectares of hongyingzi sorghum.2020-09-24 15:46
A farmer dries corn in a village while a girl plays with her dog in Shilin Yi Autonomous County, Yunnan Province, on Nov. 30, 2019. She had another bumper harvest of corn, a key local crop.2020-09-24 15:45
A PetroChina employee (in red) gives fertilizers to farmers and teaches them how to use them in a village of Moyu County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on Mar. 29, 2016. The company provides logistics and services to ensure fertilizer supply for spring plowing in the region.2020-09-24 15:11
Villagers chat under a photovoltaic lamp in Shaguo Village in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province on Dec. 11, 2013. The China Environmental Protection Foundation spent over 500,000 yuan ($70,758) to install photovoltaic pump and power generation systems to meet the demand of 356 villagers.2020-09-24 15:10
