During the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-20), Southwest China's Guizhou province relocated 1.92 million impoverished residents, established 949 relocation sites and built 465,000 resettlement homes.
Since 2016, Southwest China's Guizhou province has called on private companies to participate in targeted poverty alleviation measures and organized various poverty alleviation activities.
The Jinxiu project, a venture aiming to help women increase their incomes through the handicraft industry, has helped 500,000 people so far, according to a seminar held on Dec 28 in Guiyang, the capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province.
In 2020, Southwest China's Guizhou province ensured all of the recorded impoverished people's basic and subsistence needs and eliminated the risks of falling into or falling back into poverty.
In the first 11 months of this year, Southwest China's Guizhou province has attracted 673 major industrial projects to its 12 poverty-stricken counties and districts.
As a new endeavor to eradicate poverty, a village in the hilly Guizhou province has been pioneering a province-wide program in which disabled villagers are supported through centralized care centers.
A total of 226 projects worth 445.36 billion yuan ($67.97 billion) and 21 cooperation agreements were signed between Southwest China's Guizhou province and various central government-owned companies at an investment attraction event on Dec 11 in Guiyang.