Helping Each Other to Get Rich ĦĦĦĦSongxi County in Fujian Province is one that had been long hard pressed for a big poverty-stricken population accounting for 21% of the local total. For introduction of a new policy creation in the way "well-to-do" households contract for helping lift their relatives or counterparts out of poverty the county has in recent two years help eliminate once and for all the past poverty long and deep rooted among the people in the locality. ĦĦĦĦFarmer Qiu Yonggui is typical. A man unmarried in utter poverty and hard put two years before, he seemed in his years to see no better days, not to say "getting rich" among his country folk. In January 1997, he was helped with a loan of RMB$2,000 yuan from local "Helping the Poor" Fund and a she goat with technical aid from "well-to-do" households. By January this year he not only cleared payment of money from local "Helping the Poor" Fund but also comes to be favored by a cash surplus of RMB$2,900 yuan and 47 live goats to add to his personal property. Economicnews 1999-02-10 Page2 Full Story in Chinese