Children play games at a kindergarten in Ningshan County, Shaanxi Province, on Nov. 24, 2017. Many children in the kindergarten are from poor families and receive a good education thanks to the government’s preferential policies for the poor.2020-09-24 17:21
Liu Faying briefs children about the outside world while ferrying them across the river in Yichang, Hubei Province, on Jun. 11, 2020. As of Jun. 13, 2020, Liu, a National People’s Congress deputy, and her team had raised about 23 million yuan ($3.24 million) for 3,584 poverty-stricken students.2020-09-24 17:21
Deng Xiaolan teaches a music lesson for children of Malan Primary School in Baoding, Hebei Province, on Sept. 28, 2012. Deng, born in Malan Village, helped a local band perform in cities including Beijing and Shanghai.2020-09-24 17:20
Children wearing custom-made down jackets fly paper planes in Qinghe County, Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on Nov. 21, 2017. Chinese clothing maker Hailan Home has donated custommade thick jackets to about 1,000 schools across 23 provinces since 2014. 2020-09-24 17:20
Children wearing gloves and scarves attend class at Sanjianfang Village Primary School in Baofeng County, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province, on Dec. 31, 2013. The Women’s Federation of Baofeng donated the items to 195 children living in the poor mountainous areas.2020-09-24 17:19
Students listen attentively at Rongguanxiu Primary School in Pingshan County, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, on Jun. 21, 2012. Instead of commuting daily on mountainous roads, the students now live in a newly-built dormitory under a poverty alleviation project launched in 2011 to benefits tens of thousands of children in 45 towns of six counties.2020-09-24 17:19
Two girls pose for a picture in a village in Xishui County, Zunyi, Guizhou Province, on Sept. 11, 2016. Xishui and 13 other counties and districts in the province rose out of poverty in 2018.2020-09-24 17:18
Children dance with joy the moment a light is turned on in Yushu City, Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, on Jul. 14, 2013. Xiaoshan’s power supply authorities in Zhejiang Province have assisted Yushu since 2012 to make sure that every school there has access to electricity.2020-09-24 17:18
Protected by their parents, children climb 17 rattan ladders to reach their cliff-top homes after school in Atuleer Village, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, on May 14, 2016. Their daily ordeal consists of climbing more than 800 meters. Local government has built a safe steel ladder to the village and improved its internet facilities and education conditions.2020-09-24 17:18
Participants in a hiking event in Heixiazi Isle in the city of Fuyuan, Heilongjiang Province, on Jul. 21, 2018. Fuyuan shook off poverty by protecting the local ecology and developing ecotourism.2020-09-24 17:16
A farmer shows tourists dressed in the Red Army uniform around Bashang Village in Jinggangshan, Jiangxi Province, on Sept. 16, 2019. Bashang has made use of its revolutionary cultural heritage to develop tourism and lift the village out of poverty.2020-09-24 17:16
Contestants take part in a national racing competition in Horqin Right Wing Middle Banner in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region on Jul. 27, 2019. The banner has set up a racehorse breeding company, which has lifted 3,100 people of 1,165 families out of poverty.2020-09-24 17:15
Tourists enjoy a scenic spot in Xingshan County, Yichang, Hubei Province, on Jun. 13, 2015. Xingshan has protected the local ecology to promote tourism and improve people’s life.2020-09-24 17:15
People draw tigers in a studio in Wanggongzhuang Village in Shangqiu, Henan Province, on Sept. 5, 2014. More than 900 of the 1,300 villagers in the village are engaged in tiger painting and related business, attracting thousands of others nearby to make paintings or buy them.2020-09-24 17:14
Residents chat in front of a 3D painting in Caonianpo Village in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, on Nov. 4, 2017. Art school teachers and students painted the walls of 12 houses in the poverty-stricken village in 2017, which has attracted many tourists.2020-09-24 17:14
Gao Baoli, a top national performance artist, sings in Zhaojiazhuang Village in Tianshui, Gansu Province, on Nov. 11, 2019. The China Acrobats Association artists gave a free performance to improve rural residents’ cultural life.2020-09-24 17:13
Villagers watch the performance of local gaoshan opera, which originated 700 years ago, in Wudu District of Longnan, Gansu Province, on Feb. 12, 2017. The China Federation of Literary and Art Circles has made great efforts to revive the opera and boost its inheritance.2020-09-24 17:13
Artists of Tieling county’s cultural administration perform shadow plays to improve people’s cultural life at a village in Tieling County, Liaoning Province, on Sept 13, 2016.2020-09-24 17:12
Bouyei ethnic performers rehearse eight-tone sitting-singing, a form of local folk music listed as national intangible cultural heritage, in a village in Xingyi, Guizhou Province, on Aug. 27, 2019. An increasing number of Bouyei youth have inherited the art and their performances attract tourists and raise income in the village.2020-09-24 17:11
A villager dressed in traditional opera costume livestreams local tourism attractions in Fugu County, Shaanxi Province, on Apr. 27, 2018.2020-09-24 17:11
People of the Yao ethnic group rehearse a folk performance in a resettlement village in Heli Town, Laibin, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Jun. 21, 2020. They are living happily after being relocated to the new community.2020-09-24 16:44
Tibetans eat Jieda baking dough to celebrate the Gongbo New Year, a traditional festival in Nyingchi, Tibet Autonomous Region, on Dec. 24, 2014. As life gets better, they can buy as much Jieda as they want.2020-09-24 16:44
Villagers practice yoga during a work break in Yugouliang Village, Zhangbei County in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, on Sept. 12, 2018.2020-09-24 16:44
Lu Xifen (fourth from left), deputy head of Sichuan University’s Student Affairs Department, leads volunteers on a visit to a poverty-stricken student’s family in Nilka County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, on Aug. 1, 2019. They visited 39 families during the summer vacation to learn about their situation and provide financial assistance.2020-09-24 16:44
Undergraduate volunteers help villagers draw up a blueprint for poverty alleviation in an ancient village in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hubei Province, on Sept. 9, 2018.2020-09-24 16:44
Ye Jun (fourth from left) leads workers in using a bamboo mat to take a layer of paper from a pulp pool at a xuan paper factory in Jingxian County, Xuancheng, Anhui Province, on Aug. 5, 2019. Ye’s factory provides jobs to more than 20 migrants, who earn at least 60,000 yuan ($8,554) a year.2020-09-24 16:44
Zhu Huiping (left), a pillow making master, teaches sewing skills to fellow villagers in Miyun District of Beijing on May 26, 2020. Zhu set up a cooperative 10 years ago to give free training and jobs to help villagers rise out of poverty. In 2019, Miyun’s 11,674 low-income families bid farewell to low incomes.2020-09-24 16:44
Trainees learn to cook Cantonese cuisine at a vocational school in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, on May 27, 2020. The school has trained 3,257 chefs since 2018, with more than 60 percent of them from poverty-stricken families in rural areas.2020-09-24 16:44
People learn maternal and infant nursing skills at a provincial vocational training center in Hainan Province on Oct. 14, 2019. The Hainan Trade Union has offered free skills training to over 6,000 laidoff workers, rural laborers and poor families to help improve their life.2020-09-24 16:43
Maternity matrons are offered training at a vocational school in Hanbin District of Ankang, Shaanxi Province, on Aug. 12, 2015. The district provides skill training in 25 industries, including household management, cooking and auto repair to help surplus rural laborers get jobs locally.2020-09-24 16:43
