As incomes and medical care improved, the region's average life expectancy rose from 60 years in 1963 to 77 years in 2017.

The region is implementing "high-precision" poverty alleviation -- offering tailored policies to suit different local conditions -- to its remaining 2.67 million poverty-stricken rural residents, mostly living in out-of-reach mountainous villages.

INFRASTRUCTURE BOOM

Improving infrastructure has been accredited for accelerating Guangxi's poverty reduction. Back in 1958, the region operated only three rail lines with a total length of about 1,300 km, which has been extended to 5,191 km as of October 2018, including 1,771 km of high-speed railway.

Highways surpasses 5,000 km in Guangxi, and 91 percent of its counties now have access to expressways.

Guangxi in 2016 became the first ethnic autonomous region in the country to have subways, with about 50 km of metro lines in operation in Nanning, the regional capital. The cities of Guilin and Liuzhou are also building urban rail systems.

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