国内英语资讯:Xinhua Insight: Xis village tours assure poverty reduction_时事

国内英语资讯:Xinhua Insight: Xis village tours assure poverty reduction

Since 2016 Gu and his son have been working in construction in the village, earning 200 yuan (29 U.S. dollars) per day. They also receive 4,000 yuan per year to rent their farmland.

Tang Rongbin's house was renovated with a government fund.

"I never dreamed of living in such a house before," he said. He rents three rooms of his house to a tourism company.

Farmers in Luotuowan no longer cultivate the traditional crops of potato and corn, once their major income source. Instead, they grow apple trees and mushrooms, with investment from two companies. This brings more income in the form of rents, salaries and bonuses from the two firms.

Per capita income in the village increased to 3,000 yuan in 2015 from less than 1,000 in 2012. In 2015 alone, 48 families escaped from poverty.

"Poverty reduction cannot simply rely on 'transfusing blood.' We must take advantage of resources and develop industries," said Xu Xiangdong, an official from the provincial housing department who was dispatched to the village to help eradicate poverty.

It is common for officials to be chosen to work in villages on poverty reduction.

In the past four years, Fuping County's per capita income of farmers increased from 3,262 yuan to 5,815 yuan in 2015, and its poverty-hit population has been reduced to 60,000, said Hao Guochi, Fuping Party secretary.

China is aiming to eradicate rural poverty by 2020, lifting the remaining 55 million rural poor out of poverty, roughly 10 million each year. The country's poverty line is 2,300 yuan in annual income.