Over 3m People Shed Poverty in Jiangxi

In the past seven years, Jiangxi Province has helped some 3.3 million people out of poverty, with an annual per-capita income of 1182 from past 386 yuan reported.

Commendable is the policy instituted in Jiangxi to help lift people in impoverished areas out of poverty through developing science and technology. Training courses have been run in various types and up to 7159, with an attendance of 1.025 million. Among these are included some 51,000 attendees trained through correspondence teaching. Experts and professionals with expertise have also been seen in lending a helpful hand to the project of relieving poverty in Jiangxi and this has resulted in a spread of new farming technology in every farm household in rural Jiangxi.

As a part of the project to help rural poor and impoverished areas relieve poverty, various township- and village-based industrial undertakings and construction causes as in the way "every village develops a brand and every township a trade" have been projected and developed. Take Ganzhou City for example. Though a mountainous land with a dearth of farmland, yet it has helped its 160 thousand rural families with an annual per-capita income growth of over 200 yuan from fruit and growing tea. So far, seven poverty-relief pillar industries in such areas as fruit and tea, silkworm breeding, livestock raising, fishery, mining, forestry and cash crops have been developed. As known by the end of 1999, fruit and tea had been grown over an area totaling 2.36 million mu and silk 65 thousand mu. In the same year, this viable anti-poverty project had helped a population of 7.75 million relieved of poverty, benefiting them with a per-capita income growth of 346 yuan. Meanwhile, when a relentless effort is made to fight poverty the local authorities make it sure that sustainable development in the whole province is no less stressed. When people's living conditions are improved they see to it that water losses and soil erosion are wholly put under control.



By PD Online staff member Yin Zhili


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