A van of a courier company runs on the highway linking Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County and Kashigar. (Xinhua/Hu Huhu)

A package distribution center has recently been established in a county on the Pamir Plateau, in China's westernmost region, thanks to the country’s significant efforts to eradicate poverty.

Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County is located in northwestern China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It covers an area larger than Beijing, but has a population of only 41,000.

Li Xin (left) contacts the parcels' owners. (Xinhua/Hu Huhu)

To date, at least one person in each of the region's 3,235 households has been guaranteed a stable job, and 1,542 impoverished families have already been relocated. The county is expected to rid itself of poverty in 2019.

About 1,000 express parcels have been delivered to the county since the logistics center opened, including home appliances, mobile phones, face masks and clothes, courier Li Yue said.

Local residents show the items they received.  (Xinhua/Hu Huhu)

Poverty reduction in the region has brought business opportunities for e-commerce and express industries, and the logistics center is expected to link the small county with the outside world, Li added. 

The photo taken by a drone shows the van of the courier company. (Xinhua/Hu Huhu)