China's Sichuan lifts all counties out of poverty (7)

Two girls read books in the newly built library of a primary school in Butuo County of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 23, 2020. China's Sichuan Province, whose mountainous areas have long been a citadel of abject poverty, on Tuesday declared it had removed the poverty label from all of its counties. The provincial government of Sichuan said seven counties in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture were the last group of counties in the province to be removed from the national poverty list. (Xinhua/Liu Kun)