Southwest China's Guizhou province has achieved a major landmark in alleviating poverty in the region, through agricultural products that have proved extremely popular among consumers.
Yang Xiuli, 57, a resident of Rongjiang county in Southwest China's mountainous Guizhou province, began mastering embroidery decades back. Little did she imagine that one day she would make a living out of what was essentially a hobby.
Yang Xiuli, 57, a resident of Rongjiang county in Southwest China's mountainous Guizhou province, began mastering embroidery decades back. Little did she imagine that one day she would make a living out of what was essentially a hobby.
Guangdong-based popular milk tea maker Heytea will donate 3 million yuan ($440,000) for different industrial poverty alleviation projects nationwide, and the first 1 million yuan will be used to support the tea sector in Leishan county in the mountainous Guizhou province in Southwest China.
China's ecology protection efforts have injected vitality into the country's poverty alleviation work, an official with the National Forestry and Grassland Administration said.
A total of 69 State-owned companies in Southwest China's Guizhou province carried out 847 inspections in impoverished areas and offered 360 million yuan ($51.83 million) in direct investment to help with poverty alleviation.
Since 2016, Guiyang, capital city of Southwest China's Guizhou province, has invested a whopping 1.67 billion yuan ($239.57 million) to assist 10 counties to eradicate poverty. The city has also taken full advantage of technology, its markets and human talent to get the job done.