HAIKOU, Oct. 17 -- For most farmers, Autumn is a happy season where months of hard work toiling the ground finally pay off.

But for 43-year-old farmer Fu Xiangli it was a season of remedy.

A resident of an impoverished village in Haikou city in south China's Hainan Province, she's able breath a sigh of relief after a hastily planted mushroom crop managed to bring in 4,000 yuan (651 U.S dollars).It's a good haul, but less than half the family's normal earnings.

In July, a record-breaking typhoon destroyed Fu's fields of rubber trees and rice paddies. With a yearly income of 10,000 yuan split between the family of five, their budget was already shoestring. Incidents like the typhoon often prove financially fatal for those toeing the line of poverty.

"It's surprising that we can still get some money after the disaster," Fu said, adding the glossy ganoderma mushroom crop was planted under the guidance of the local government. "I see hope of a new life."

Fu is just one of more than 80 million poor Chinese under the country's poverty line who have become the target of China's new anti-poverty campaign as the country celebrates its first National Poverty-Relief Day on Friday.