• 1SCIO briefing on securing a decisive victory in poverty alleviation

• 1SCIO briefing on the timely achievement of poverty alleviation goals

• 2SCIO briefing on China's economic performance in the first quarter of 2020

• 3SCIO briefing on measures to stabilize foreign trade

• 4SCIO briefing on the health and security of Chinese students overseas during the COVID-19 outbreak

• 5SCIO briefing on progress of Central Guidance Team in organizing and guiding epidemic control and medical rescue

• 6SCIO briefing on the cooperation between China and the int'l community in fighting COVID-19

• 7SCIO briefing on maintaining financial market stability during COVID-19 epidemic

• 8SCIO briefing on TCM's important role and a list of effective drugs in COVID-19 prevention and control

• 1Residents of a relocation site in Hunan escape from poverty by producing lights

The facility employs 70 people, including 43 impoverished residents who live at the relocation site, and mostly produces holiday lights.

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• 2Noted principal reopens primary school in Yunnan after COVID-19 interruption

Zhen Lanfang, deputy to National People's Congress and principal of Central Primary School in Wenping township, Ludian county, Zhaotong city, Yunnan province, became a teacher 28 years ago. Valuing professional development and exhibiting great leadership, the principal established a well-known experience-sharing workshop that many young teachers have participated in. She has been recognized by parents and society in general for her outstanding performance and has received a lot of honors over the years.

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• 3Millennial civil servant engages in poverty alleviation, education in village in Guangxi

Wei Jichen was born in Luzhai county, Liuzhou city, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in Nov. 1993. She attended a master’s program at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou and returned to her hometown in July 2018, where she became a civil servant after passing the exam. Wei applied to work at the grass-roots level in order to make a contribution to Liuzhou’s impoverished residents. She was assigned to work as a poverty alleviation official in Xiatao village, Shibeiping township, Liubei district.

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• 4Farmers increase their incomes via environmentally friendly projects in Anhui

A rice and crayfish farm based on local conditions has been developed in Dagang village, Tuohu township, Anhui province in recent years in order to promote poverty alleviation in the area. The project is environmentally friendly and allows participants to increase their incomes.

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• 5Walnut industry helps farmers increase their incomes in Hebei

Geographical conditions and other advantages that are present in Zanhuang county, Shijiazhuang city, Hebei province have made it possible to vigorously develop its walnut industry in recent years.

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• 6Farmers increase their incomes by growing herbs used in TCM

Located deep in a mountainous region, Zhongyi was on the list of Chongqing’s deeply impoverished townships until recently. Government bodies encouraged its residents to transfer their land to cooperative projects and participate in other production models in order to grow herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine, which is an industry that the area is suited for. The plants are currently being cultivated on nearly 667 ha of land. The undertaking consolidates industrial poverty alleviation efforts in the locale and makes it possible for farmers to escape from poverty and increase their incomes.

p.china.org.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 7From entry-level to manager – Finding a new future at garment factory

Cheng Chunxia is a native of Liufeng village, Gangu county, Gansu province who was impoverished until she began working at a garment factory that was built for poverty alleviation purposes. Cheng spent her time farming and looking after her children prior to this development. The workshop that Cheng became employed at was established as a result of a partnership program in which localities in eastern China assist communities in the nation’s western regions with poverty alleviation projects and endeavors.

p.china.org.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 8Alleviating poverty in Huaibin county by developing industries with local characteristics

In recent years, Huaibin county, Xinyang city, Henan province has been developing 26 industries that are based on its local characteristics, such as animal husbandry, mushroom cultivation, and farming of plants used in traditional Chinese medicine, in order to expand its economy.

p.china.org.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 9Mushroom cultivation poverty alleviation base resumes operations in Hunan

Strict COVID-19 prevention and control measures have been implemented at the Xiangfuxiang Edible Mushroom Co. Ltd. in Gaoqiao town, Changsha county, Hunan province, and it has resumed production after operations were temporarily suspended due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Gaoqiao’s mushroom industry is harnessed for poverty alleviation purposes in the area.

p.china.org.cn by Teng Jingyan

• 10Small-scale poverty alleviation companies provide jobs at resettlement site in Guizhou

About 17,965 impoverished people in 4,050 households currently live in the 62 residential buildings that stand at the Wangjia Garden resettlement site in Wanshan district, Tongren city.

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• 11Tibetan farmers increase their incomes by growing pollution-free vegetables

Thirty of Tongmai’s households have been able to bring in an average of 40,000 additional yuan (US$5,714) per year compared to what they were making before they began working at the base.

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• 12Industries with local characteristics boost employment in Shiquan county

Shiquan is located near the Qinling-Daba mountains in northwest China and has been developing industries with local characteristics,such as silk production, farming and agricultural processing, and ecotourism, in order to create more employment opportunities in the area so that people can escape from poverty and increase their incomes.The administrative area was removed from the national list of impoverished counties in February of 2020 as a result of its new found prosperity.

p.china.org.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 13Poverty-stricken inhabitants find a future in the art of thangka

Tongren county is situated in Qinghai province and is known as the "home of Chinese thangka art." In recent years, the local government has intensified efforts to develop the intangible culture industry in the area in order to reduce poverty and increase people’s incomes. These endeavors led to extreme poverty being eliminated in the county at the end of 2019.

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• 14Poverty alleviation factories resume operations in Ningxia

A resident of Lizhuang village sews handbags at a factory that was established for poverty alleviation purposes

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• 15Handmade potato soap paves the way to prosperity for town in Sichuan

By chance, a member of Wagu’s poverty alleviation team named Peng Yang came upon an educational video that explains how to make soap from plant material. He felt inspired and thought that the potatoes that are grown in the villages in the area would be perfect as the starch that they contain is a natural detergent. Peng began to experiment, and his creations became very popular online.

p.china.org.cn by Teng Jingyan

• 16Poverty alleviation factories in Hebei resume operations

The government of Wu’an city has recently implemented strict COVID-19 prevention and control measures and helped local poverty alleviation factories come back online after operations were temporarily suspended due to the epidemic.

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• 17Female poverty alleviation officials assist other women in Guizhou

A government employee engaged in poverty reduction work in Gaojiu village, Xinghua township, Rongjiang county, Guizhou province named Ning Shengqiong (left) teaches flower cultivation techniques to local residents.

p.china.org.cn by Teng Jingyan

• 18Chartered train helps migrant workers from Guizhou get back to work

Migrant workers wait to board a train at Nayong railway station on March 7, 2020.

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• 19Fumin government helps villagers sell pickled mustard greens amid COVID-19 battle

Fumin village, Zhangjiasai township, Yiyang city, Hunan province was once a provincially recognized impoverished jurisdiction.

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• 20Businesses resume operations in China after COVID-19 disruption

Many companies in China have implemented strict COVID-19 prevention and control measures, resumed operations after temporarily suspending them as a result of the virus, and established protocols that promote an orderly return to work.

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• 21Poverty alleviation factories resume production in Guizhou

The government of Jianhe county,Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture, Guizhou province has implemented strict COVID-19 prevention and control measures. Companies in the area have been cooperating with town-level governments and resuming production.

p.china.org.cn by Teng Jingyan

• 22Poverty alleviation factories resume operations amidst COVID-19 epidemic

Strict COVID-19 prevention and control measures have been implemented in Rongjiang county, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture, Guizhou province in order to make it possible for people to return to work at poverty alleviation factories after they temporarily suspended operations when the epidemic broke out.

p.china.org.cn by Teng Jingyan

• 23Traditional brocade workshops help increase incomes in Chongqing

Xilankapu is a type of brocade that is part of traditional Tujia ethnic culture.Products made from the material, such as handbags, furniture, and scarves,are sold acrossChina. The craft of Xilankapu fabrication was included in China’s first list of national intangible cultural heritage items.

P.china.org.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 24Nested market popularizes products from mountainous region

Sanggang village is located in a remote, mountainous region,65km from the seat of Yi county, Hebei province. This reality makes it difficult to develop largescale fruit, forestry, and animal farming​ endeavors.

p.china.org.cn by Wang Jinli

• 25Laborers from Ningxia head southeast to increase their incomes

On Feb.27, a chartered flight took Jin and 141 other people from villages administered by towns in the city of Guyuan more than 2,000 km to Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian province. A cooperative project between Ningxia and Fujian made it possible for them to become employed there so that they can increase their incomes.

p.china.org.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 26Tea industry helps women escape from poverty in Hainan

Members of the Wulilu tea cooperative in Baisha Li autonomous county have recently gone back to work after temporarily suspending their activities due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

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• 27Impoverished migrant workers from Guangxi take charter train to Guangdong

A total of 756 migrant workers from six districts and counties in Baise city, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, namely Youjiang district, Tianyang county, Pingguo county, Debao county, Napo county, and Lingyun county, departed from Baise Railway Station at 10:40 a.m.on Feb.19, 2020 on train D4508.

p.china.org.cn by Bai Yunzhi

• 28Poverty alleviation factories produce protective articles during epidemic

Staff produce protective suits at a factory that was built for poverty alleviation purposes in Linxia Hui autonomous prefecture, Gansu province. The suits are used to assist with prevention and control of the COVID-19 outbreak.

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• 29Taobao helps farmers sell overstocked agricultural products during COVID-19 outbreak

Taobao, China’s largest online shopping platform, created the campaign in order to help Wuhan city, Hubei province, which has had difficulties with sales since the COVID-19 epidemic emerged.

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• 30Poverty alleviation factory shifts to mask production in Rong'an county

A factory that was built for poverty alleviation purposes in Aimian village, Chang'an town, Rong'an county, Liuzhou city, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region mostly produced school uniforms and other children's garments before the COVID-19 outbreak but was recently retooled so that it can be used to manufacture face masks in order to help with control and prevention efforts.

p.china.org.cn by Teng Jingyan

• 31Tea trees help people shake off poverty in Guangxi province

Tea has become the main poverty alleviation industry in the area and helps ethnic Dong people become more prosperous.

en.chinagate.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 1Operations resume at factory in poverty alleviation relocation site in Hubei

In recent years, the government of Yunyang district, Shiyan city, Hubei province has encouraged hosiery manufacturing companies from Zhejiang province to establish factories in local densely populated poverty alleviation relocation sites and provided those that did with various incentives, which has resulted in 17 new workshops being constructed to date.

p.china.org.cn by Ye Kai

• 2Industrial development helps people out of poverty in Shandong province

Various poverty alleviation projects involving cherry cultivation, photovoltaic power generation, rural tourism, and other endeavors have been implemented in Wulian county, Rizhao city, Shandong province in recent years in order to help its impoverished households achieve long-term improvements to their incomes.

p.china.org.cn by Ye Kai

• 3Impoverished people embrace new lives at relocation sites in Guangxi

Poverty eradication efforts in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region are a key part of China's campaign to end absolute poverty. About 710,000 of the territory’s impoverished residents need to relocate to more hospitable areas before the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020).

p.china.org.cn by Ye Kai

• 4Residents of Shijiazhuang city increase their incomes by engaging in beekeeping

Farmers living in Xuting township of Zanhuang county have been keeping bees to help them pollinate their pears.

p.china.org.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 5Local residents of Yunnan use live streaming platforms to market agricultural products

Ning’er’s residents have recently been using the technology to market pu-erh tea and other featured products, which helps the county’s farmers increase their incomes.

p.china.org.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 6Production of wicker products resumes in Boxing county

Businesses in Shandong province’s Boxing county have recently resumed production of wicker products after operations were temporarily suspended due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

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• 7Flower industry provides path out of poverty for villagers in Shandong

The government of Liuyuan township, Zaozhuang city, Shandong province has implemented a poverty reduction model that incorporates a “base + impoverished people.” Roses and Barberton daisies are grown at a flower cultivation base that covers over 2.67 ha. It yields an average of more than 120,000 yuan (US$16,980) of economic output per ha each year and makes it possible for 97 households to escape from poverty and increase their incomes.

p.china.org.cn by Ye Kai

• 8Featured industries help people out of poverty in Inner Mongolia

In recent years, the government of Ulanqab city, Inner Mongolia autonomous region has striven to develop featured local industries. A model has been implemented in which poverty alleviation funds and subsidies are leveraged and “enterprises + a cooperative + impoverished people” are involved in order to develop modern farming and animal husbandry undertakings and help poverty-stricken people become more prosperous.

p.china.org.cn by Ye Kai

• 9Three-level service system spurs rural e-commerce in Wuzhong

Three-level service system spurs rural e-commerce in Wuzhong

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• 10Poverty alleviation businesses resume operations in Ningxia

The government of Yinchuan city, Ningxia Hui autonomous region recently helped local businesses that promote poverty alleviation resume production in an orderly manner after operations were temporarily suspended because of the COVID-19 outbreak.

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• 11Poverty alleviation factories boost employment in Enshi autonomous prefecture

COVID-19 prevention and control measures have been implemented at poverty alleviation factories in Xuanen county, Enshi Tujia and Miao autonomous prefecture, Hubei province, which has made it possible for them to come back online after a temporary suspension of operations was imposed due to the epidemic.

p.china.org.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 12Enterprises in rural areas help people escape from poverty in Xinjiang

Labor-intensive enterprises in the four prefectures in southern Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, namely Hotan, Aksu, Qeshqer Shehiri, and Kizilsu Kirghiz, have recently resumed operations after they were temporarily suspended due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Facial mask production has been stepped up at Hotan’s Huishangyiju Clothing Co. Ltd. factory in order to provide greater supply amidst the pandemic. The company employs more than 500 laborers from the area, 80 percent of whom are impoverished.

p.china.org.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 13Yunnan's Diqing prefecture engages in poverty alleviation, COVID-19 prevention

A Kangmei Dairy Development Co. Ltd. employee works at a factory in Shangri-La city, Diqing Tibetan autonomous prefecture.

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• 14Farmers harvest black fungus at poverty alleviation base amidst COVID-19 battle

Farmers who work at the poverty alleviation base in Futai village, Anhui province have recently been harvesting black fungus.

p.china.org.cn by Teng Jingyan

• 15Eliminating poverty in Yang county via cuniculture industry

Beiliang is located south of the Qinling Mountains and was impoverished until recently. Its residents eventually assessed local conditions and decided to engage in rabbit farming. The low-risk undertaking requires little startup capital, offers large profits that can be realized quickly, and made it possible for the entire village to escape from poverty in 2019.

p.china.org.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 16Striving to increase incomes amidst epidemic prevention in Dingzhou

COVID-19 prevention and control measures have been implemented in the city, and its government has encouraged local agricultural enterprises and cooperatives, family farms, and other businesses ​to resume their operations.

p.china.org.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 17Poverty alleviation factories in Chongqing come back online after COVID-19 interruption

The Pengshui government recently promoted the orderly resumption of operations at plants and businesses that were established for poverty alleviation purposes after they were temporarily suspended due to the COVID-19 outbreak so that the people who work at them can continue to increase their incomes.

p.china.org.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 18Charter buses take impoverished migrant workers from Guangxi to Guangdong

The government of Liuzhou city, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region has recently been helping impoverished migrant workers from the area return to work in Guangdong province after Chinese New Year and the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus.

p.china.org.cn by Bai Yunzhi

• 19Inner Mongolia's 'grassland economy' resumes

The Sonid Right banner, Xilingol league, Inner Mongolia government has implemented COVID-19 prevention and control measures and promoted the resumption of operations at enterprises involved in food processing, agricultural machinery manufacturing, and livestock farming after temporarily suspending them due to the epidemic.

en.chinagate.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 20Poverty alleviation businesses resume production in Hebei

The government of Neiqiu county, Xingtai city, Hebei province has implemented strict COVID-19 prevention and control measures in its jurisdiction. This has made it possible to end the temporary suspension of operations that was implemented at the poverty alleviation factories in the area when the epidemic broke out. Employees have returned to work and are continuing to increase their incomes.

p.china.org.cn by Teng Jingyan

• 21Poverty alleviation base resumes production in Shaanxi

Strict COVID-19 prevention and control measures have been implemented at the base in order to make it possible for its staff to return after operations were temporarily suspended so that they can begin their spring planting work, continue to increase their incomes, and escape from poverty.

p.china.org.cn by Teng Jingyan

• 22150,000 kg of unsalable oranges sold out in one week

Recently, more than 50,000 poverty alleviation staff members in Hunan province’s villages have prepared for the spring growth season amidst the COVID-19 outbreak and the prevention and control measures that have been implemented.

p.china.org.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 23Operations resume at demonstration bases that employ women in Guangxi

The Rongshui Women’s Federation has engaged in poverty alleviation work geared towards women in the county over the course of the last few years.

p.china.org.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 24Poverty alleviation factories resume production in Hunan amid COVID-19 battle

More than 370 employees of 31 of the workshops have recently returned to work after a temporary suspension of operations at the start of the outbreak.

p.china.org.cn by Teng Jingyan

• 25Construction resumes at poverty alleviation relocation site in Yunnan

​Effective COVID-19 prevention and control measures have been implemented at construction sites in Huize county, Qujing city, Yunnan province in accordance with the requirements of the provincial government and Party committee.

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• 26Feixi county increases supply of fruit, vegetables amidst COVID-19 epidemic

Farmers working at industrial parks that were created for poverty alleviation purposes in Yandian township, Feixi county, Anhui province have been harvesting mushrooms, vegetables, and strawberries to help ensure supply amidst the COVID-19 outbreak.

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• 27Laborers return to work at a poverty alleviation factory

An employee of a woodworking company is busy at work on Feb. 20, 2020. This company is located in an industrial park in Rongshui Miao autonomous county, Guangxi province that was developed as a result of a poverty alleviation partnership between Guangdong and Guangxi provinces.

p.china.org.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 28Preventing spread of novel coronavirus while producing pickled mustard tubers in Chongqing

Recently, efforts have been made to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus in Fuling district, Chongqing municipality.

en.chinagate.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 29Persisting with poverty alleviation amidst epidemic prevention in Chongqing

The local government has implemented various prevention and control measures during the novel coronavirus epidemic and taken steps to ensure that production proceeds and people can continue to support themselves over the course of the outbreak.

p.china.org.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 30Poverty alleviation staff in Guangxi fight against novel coronavirus

More than 2,400 first Party secretaries and poverty alleviation staff in Liuzhoucity, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region returned to work on Jan. 31 after the Spring Festival holiday.

p.china.org.cn by Zhao Binyu

• 31Trees, shrubs, and Chinese herbs help village out of poverty

Located in Zhongzhai town, Minxian county, Gansu province, Maya village is part of an extremely impoverished region that runs through the Liupan Mountains. There was a poverty incidence rate of 43 percent and there were only 0.067 ha of cultivated land per capita in the village until it found a path out of poverty.

p.china.org.cn by Teng Jingyan

• 1From Ebola to COVID-19: West Africa must learn from the past and protect vulnerable people

With the rapid spread of the new coronavirus in recent weeks, the issue of preparedness in African countries has been in the headlines of the international press.

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• 2Keeping global food chains alive is crucial amid COVID-19 crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic is putting enormous strains on the public health systems around the world, and millions of people in the world’s most advanced economies are in some form of quarantine.

China.org.cn by Qu Dongyu

• 3China committed to ending extreme poverty in rural areas

China has helped more than 800 million people escape from poverty since it began to implement reform and opening up policy in 1978, and the undertaking has continued to be one of the country’s top priorities.

p.china.org.cn by Li Yunlong

• 4The potential impact of COVID-19 on food security in China and globally

While the economic impact of Covid-19 on China’s and the world economy is being carefully monitored and assessed, at the moment little is known about the impact of the outbreak on other “non-economic” sectors, such as on “development.”

p.china.org.cn by Matteo Marchisio

• 5As COVID-19 spreads, no major concern for global food security yet

Food distribution channels could face some disruption from transport interruptions and quarantine measures but impacts on staple commodities are less frequent and shorter in duration than for higher valued food items, since such bulk commodities can be loaded, shipped and discharged with minimum human-to-human interaction.

p.china.org.cn by ROB VOS, WILL MARTIN AND DAVID LABORDE

• 6Round table at the Italian Chamber of Representatives on coronavirus: doubts, facts and fake news

​Government representatives of Italy and the People’s Republic of China, physicians, scientists, researchers and civil society groups came together to share knowledge and data about the COVID-19 outbreak and to unite forces against misinformation, fake news and discrimination yesterday at the Italian House of Representatives in Rome.

en.chinagate.cn by Gladys H. Morales

• 7Fighting against COVID-19: the importance of building long-term resilience in rural people

To avoid or prevent that the same vulnerable group of people is affected by the next crisis - be it a new outbreak, an unexpected drop in commodities’ prices, or a poor harvest due to unfavorable weather events or to a pest infestation, the resilience and the capacity of the rural people to cope with shocks need to be built and strengthened.

p.china.org.cn by Matteo Marchisio