News in Brief 　　* Hunan Intensifies Effort to Help the Poor-Last year, the province helped 500,000 people to shake off poverty by intensifying the help-the-poor work; 　　* Qinghai Helps an Additional 170,000 Farmers and Herdsmen Out of Poverty-With another 170,000 farmers and herdsmen ridding themselves of poverty, the province's poverty-stricken population has dropped from 500,000 to 330,000 people; 　　* Mianyang to Build Sichuan's Second Largest Airport-Mianyang in Sichuan Province has formally started construction of the province's second largest airport, scheduled to be completed by the end of 1999 and opened to traffic in the year 2000. 　　 Economicnews 1999-01-05 Page1 Full Story in Chinese