X: 6.5512514 Y: 6.970612 Chapter: 1 Page: 3 Content: Hebei IntroductionSince the 18th CPC National Congress, the Party Central Committee, with President Xi Jinping at the core, has placed poverty alleviation in a prominent position in the governance of China, led the Chinese people of all ethnic groups around the country secure a complete victory in the fight against poverty and has completed the arduous task of eradicating absolute poverty, creating yet another miraculous achievement that shines in the annals of human history. In the great practice of poverty alleviation, valuable experience has been created and a large number of advanced models have emerged. As President Xi Jinping has pointed out, we shall not only do jobs well but tell stories well about China’s poverty alleviation. In order to tell the story of poverty alleviation and promote the exchange and sharing of experience at home and abroad, at the beginning of 2020, the former State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development (LGOP) put forward the idea of building China Poverty Alleviation Exchange Base and issued a document in January 2021 to determine 50 counties (districts and cities) including Fuping County, Hebei Province as the first batch of China Poverty Alleviation Exchange Bases, and 91 field visit sites including Luotuowan Village, Fuping County as the China Poverty Alleviation Field Visit Sites (hereinafter referred to as "Bases" and "Field Visit Sites" respectively). The Bases and Field Visit Sites are important windows to authentically, multi-dimentionally and panoramically showcase China’s achievements, experience and practices of poverty alleviation. It will definately play a positive role in telling China’s stories well to the world and in enhancing China’s international communication capabilities.The first batch of Bases cover the eastern, central and western regions of China, in terms of administrative divisions, including 1 province in the east (Fujian), 6 provinces in the central (Hebei, Shanxi, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan), and 8 provinces in the west (Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia). The Field Visit Sites identified in the first batch reflect typicality and representation, comprehensively presenting the great achievements of


X: 6.690414 Y: 6.919187 Chapter: 1 Page: 4 Content: Introduction to China Poverty Alleviation Field Visit Sitepoverty alleviation and Chinese wisdom and approaches of poverty reduction governance, intensively displaying the "Targeted Efforts in Six Areas" (this refers to efforts to identify the poor accurately, arrange targeted programs, utilize capital efficiently, take accurate household-based measures, dispatch first Party secretaries based on village conditions, and achieve the set goals), "Five Measures for Poverty Eradication" (the measures include: boosting the economy to provide more job opportunities, relocating poor people from inhospitable areas, compensating for economic losses associated with reducing ecological damage, improving education in impoverished areas, and providing subsistence allowances for those unable to shake off poverty through their own efforts alone) and "Five Questions in Poverty Alleviation " (this refers to these questions: who should help, who should be helped, how to help, how to evaluate whether someone has emerged from poverty, and how to ensure those people stay free from poverty).The Bases and Field Visit Sites mainly displayed poverty alleviation through industrial development, poverty alleviation through relocation, poverty alleviation through education, poverty alleviation through ecological compensation, poverty alleviation through providing subsistence allowances for those unable to shake off poverty through their own efforts alone, poverty alleviation through photovoltaic power generation, poverty alleviation through development of science and technology, poverty alleviation through financial support, poverty alleviation through tourism, poverty alleviation through e-commerce, poverty alleviation through improving culture, poverty alleviation through dispatching resident working teams, cultivating entrepreneurial leaders, grass-roots governance, as well as democratic party assistance, national solidarity and mutual assistance, comprehensive exhibition hall etc. IPRCC together with officials and the local practitioners from 15 provinces (autonomous regions and cities) where the Bases are located, compiled the Introduction to China Poverty Alleviation Field Visit Sites, which included the basic information, main practices and work inspiration of 91 China Poverty Alleviation Field Visit Sites, hoping to use it as a reference material to promote the exchange of experience and learning from all regions. We will continue to make positive contributions to further consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation, and promote the development of the areas that have been lifted out of poverty and the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.                                         International Poverty Reduction Center in China                                                                        March, 2023


X: 10.4520035 Y: 0.85505044 Chapter: 1 Page: 1 Content: Hebei Introduction to the Field Visit Sites in Hebei Province01Fuping County  Laiyuan CountyLaishui countyLuotuowan VillageGujiatai VillageShijiazhai Green Circular Agricultural Demonstration ZoneHongcaohe Modern Agricultural ParkFuping V ocational Technical Education CenterJiuxing Chicken Breeding Poverty Reduction ProgramNiulan New VillageYesanpo Tourism-Driven Poverty Reduction Program


X: 10.484209 Y: 2.0589623 Chapter: 1 Page: 2 Content: Introduction to the Field Visit Sites in Fuping CountyLuotuowan VillageLuotuowan Village is located deep in the Taihang Mountains, a national-level contiguous destitute area, with a total area of 34,000 mu (2,267 hectares), of which 990 mu (67 hectares) are arable lands, and 22,000 mu (1,467 hectares) are mountainous areas. Due to the barren land, inconvenient transportation, poor natural conditions and resource endowment and a single source of income, it was difficult for villagers to increase income through agriculture or working in other cities or nearby provinces. The village was a typical poor village located in the old revolutionary base. In 2012, per-household income of the village was at around 2,000 to 3,000 yuan, and per-capita income was only at 950 yuan. In 2014, among 563 villagers in 245 families, 407 in 190 families were registered as poor, and the poverty incidence was at 72.3%. Since President Xi Jinping inspected the village, all the villagers followed his words, proceeded with confidence, worked hard and shook off poverty at the end of 2017. In 2021, per-capita income of the village reached 17,480 yuan, 18 times higher compared to the 2012 data. Old image of Luotuowan


X: 12.842888 Y: 0.75319016 Chapter: 1 Page: 3 Content: Hebei The village develops integrated industries based on its resource endowment to increase farmers’ income, and it mainly focuses on the development of three featured industries.First is edible fungi planting. Following the principle of using lands according to their specific conditions, namely selecting different types of lands for grain planting, fruit planting and economic use, the village carried out comprehensive industrial planning and land use planning. It transformed 200 mu (13.3 hectares) of barren mountainous lands and benchland into 75 edible fungi greenhouses and adopts an operational model featuring six uniform facets and one household-based operation, namely uniform planning, uniform construction, uniform management, uniform sales, uniform brand and household-based operation. With this, the village can plant 1.17 million sticks of mushrooms annually. 12 local families have contracted 36 greenhouses, each of which can create over 30,000 yuan of profits; 26 local villagers work in the greenhouse, and each of them can earn 12,000 yuan; 58 households have had their land transferred, and each household’s income has increased by 3,200 yuan through the transfer. Thus, villagers’ income increased. New image of LuotuowanWayao Edible Fungi Park in Luotuowan Village


X: 12.6887 Y: 1.2288098 Chapter: 1 Page: 4 Content: Second is the forestry and fruit planting industry.T he village fully utilizes the barren hill resources, and adopts a “company + household” model to develop the forestry and fruit planting industry. 700 mu (46.7 hectares) of land was transferred, covering 147 households in the village, in which 132 were registered as poor households. The land is used to plant apple, high-quality walnut, cherry and undergrowth herbs. Over 60 villagers, including 22 registered poor villagers, are employed to apply fertilizer and kill weeds in the orchard. Thus, households earn income from three channels, namely rental of 1,000 yuan per mu per year for irrigated land, dividend in which after three years, the company and the household share the dividend on a fifty-fifty basis, and wages from work.Wayao Edible Fungi Park in Luotuowan VillageHigh-mountain apple orchard of Luotuowan Village


X: 9.698038 Y: 0.97601956 Chapter: 1 Page: 5 Content: Hebei Third is featured ecological tourism.While making good use of the land resources, Luotuowan Village takes advantages of the transformed new environment and its location near the 4A-level scenic zone of Tiansheng Bridge Waterfalls. It rents 68 guesthouses at 100 yuan per square meter and develops over 20 leisure tourism destinations, over 40 types of snacks and 249 beds. Professional management groups from Gujiatai Tourist Group and Humble House Group provide uniform operation services. 95 villagers are employed in the tourist sector, including 24 from Luotuowan Village, in which 20 are registered as poor people. Since the opening of the tourist site on May 1, 2019, it has received 200,000 visitors, held various art performances, sport competitions and other major events and gathered popularity. Because of this, Luotuowan has became an ecological tourist destination. Night business and tourism in Luotuowan


X: 10.488013 Y: 2.0436947 Chapter: 1 Page: 6 Content: As the first poor place President Xi Jinping visited after the 18th CPC National Congress, Luotuowan Village has drawn attention from all walks of life. Luotuowan Village upholds the old revolutionary base’s spirit of not fearing hardship and the spirit of pioneering an enterprise with painstaking efforts in the new era, pools resources from all levels, focuses on key issues hindering “two assurances and three guarantees”, gives play to village grassroots CPC organizations, and leads the masses to make real efforts and creates an atmosphere featuring harmonious customs and solidarity between cadres and the masses. Thus, the outcome of poverty reduction is improved.


X: 10.221893 Y: 0.9340328 Chapter: 1 Page: 7 Content: Hebei Gujiatai VillageGujiatai Village is located deep in the Taihang Mountains. The village has a total land area of 6,000 mu (400 hectares), including over 4000 mu (267 hectares) of barren mountain, 1,171.8 mu (78.12 hectares) of ecological forests and 689.7 mu (46 hectares) of arable land. In 2012, there are 358 villagers living in 152 households in the village, with per capita net income of 980 yuan. At the end of 2014, 270 villagers in 110 households were registered as poor people and the poverty incidence was at 75%. The steep mountains, deep valleys, inconvenient transportation, infertile soil and poor industrial base made Gujiatai Village a typical destitute area. Since President Xi Jinping’s visit, all villagers followed his words, worked with firm confidence and shook off poverty by the end of 2017. By the end of 2021, the per capita disposable income reached 19,153 yuan, 17 times higher than in 2012. Because of this, the village was transformed into a developed rural area. Gujiatai in the past


X: 10.235484 Y: 0.950103 Chapter: 1 Page: 8 Content: First, Gujiatai focuses on poverty reduction through industrial development and actively develops handicraft. In 2015, the village introduced the Baigou Jiuge Leather Company and established the handicraft poverty reduction workshop, which employed 66 people, including 17 from Gujiatai Village, in which 11 were registered as poor people. The salary of the workers included minimum wage, performance pay and post wage, and each worker’s income increased by more than 2,000 yuan.  Gujiatai at present Outside view of Gujiatai Handicraft Poverty Alleviation Workshop


X: 12.848598 Y: 0.7370593 Chapter: 1 Page: 9 Content: Hebei Second, Gujiatai develops the edible fungi industry. The Gujiatai Edible Fungi Park has 50 mushroom greenhouses, and 60 households were involved in land consolidation. The land transfer fee is 800 yuan per mu for dry land, and 1,000 yuan per mu for irrigable land. 7 local households have contracted 14 greenhouses and each greenhouse can create over 30,000 yuan of profits and drive the employment of 75 people in the village. Nine villagers work in these greenhouses and each of them can earn 12,000 yuan a year, in which three of them are from registered poor households. The edible fungi industry has effectively increased villagers’ income. Handicraft poverty reduction workshop in Gujiatai and its working environmentA farmer is collecting mushrooms in the Edible Fungi Park


X: 9.71273 Y: 1.0502968 Chapter: 1 Page: 10 Content: Third, Gujiatai develops the forestry and fruit planting industry on a large scale. The village has planted 527 mu (35 hectares) of fruits and 15 villagers, in which 5 are registered poor people including 5 vulnerable laborers, are employed to apply fertilizer and kill weeds in the orchard. Each of these workers can earn at around 8,000 yuan or more annually. At the same time, 120 mu (8 hectares) of land related to the edible fungi industry was transferred and 407 mu (27 hectares) of land related to the forestry and fruit planting industry was transferred. The land transfer fee amounted to 475,000 yuan that covers 358 villagers in 152 households. With this, per-household income increased by 3,125 yuan.Fourth, the village vigorously develops rural tourism. Gujiatai Village carries out the Beautiful Village Campaign and plans rural development in line with rural tourism. Stone gatehouses were built at the entrance of the village, which has become a landmark of the village. Also, parking lots were built along the slopes for tourists. In 2018, Gujiatai and Luotuowan jointly established the Gujiatai and Luotuowan Tourist Development Company. The company cooperated with Fuyu Company and Humble House Group to mobilize 30 households, which includes 25 registered poor households, to rent 2,396.64 square meters of idle houses for tourism and catering. 14 villagers, including 7 registered poor, are employed to work as receptionists, customer service staff and security personnel.  Orchards in Gujiatai


X: 10.3149 Y: 0.9491943 Chapter: 1 Page: 11 Content: Hebei Fifth, the village takes multiple measures to increase the villagers’ income. The village helped 76 villagers work in other places, mainly in logistic, catering and sales sectors, and each villager increased their income by 48,000 yuan per year. Six villagers are employed as forest rangers with their income increasing 8,000 yuan per year.Gujiatai implements President Xi Jinping’s poverty reduction ideology of taking coordinated advantage of all resources, following scientific development principles, and taking measures suited to local conditions to develop rural tourism, edible fungi industry, forestry and fruit planting, and handicraft. In a small village with over 300 villagers, it precisely arranges two long-term and two short-term poverty reduction industries, which effectively promotes division of labor, realizes stable poverty reduction and facilitates rural revitalization. During the process of poverty reduction, the village gives full play to grassroots organizations, mobilizes the whole village’s initiative and ceaselessly taps its potential to improve indigenous power. At the same time, Gujiatai takes rural tourism as the main direction for future development and takes overall consideration of its development in the succeeding years. It takes “poverty reduction culture” as a local feature, which helps to avoid homogeneous competition and realizes strong sustainability. “Gujiatai Compound”, a high-end guesthouse in Gujiatai


X: 11.837276 Y: 0.79360014 Chapter: 1 Page: 12 Content: Shijiazhai Green Circular Agricultural Demonstration ZoneShijiazhai County has 14 administrative villages, with a population of 9,237 in 3,337 households. Through relocation, the county has moved 4,238 villagers from 1,205 households, including 2,191 villagers from 714 registered poor households which is about 52% of all relocated villagers, in 56 natural villages and 10 administrative villages to the new Shijiazhai Settlement. Before the relocation, villagers lived in poor housing conditions and faced difficulties in seeking employment, and access to medical services and education. After the relocation, the new settlement was equipped with water works, thermo power plants, health center, kindergartens and industrial parks. Villagers can now enjoy complete public services and their life has improved dramatically. By the end of 2021, per capita disposable income reached 10,913.9 yuan, over 2 times higher than in 2014.View of the old village


X: 12.890692 Y: 0.6292967 Chapter: 1 Page: 13 Content: Hebei According to the requirement of “building two zones simultaneously” , the village develops green circular industrial parks related to edible fungi planting, mushroom stick production, efficient fruit planting and chicken raising. The wasted mushrooms sticks and the chicken excrement can be produced into organic fertilizer for surrounding fruit bases, and the aged trees and chipped branches in the fruit bases can be made into mushroom sticks, and circular and green agriculture is thus achieved. The annual output value of these industries can reach 500 million yuan, and over 950 registered poor villagers can engage in these industries. Shijiazhai Edible Fungi Planting Base. The base, which has 7 parks and 172 greenhouses, adopts an operational model featuring six uniform factors and one household-based operation, namely uniform planning, uniform design, uniform construction, uniform technique, uniform management, uniform sales, and household-based operation. The annual output value is over 20 million yuan. The park has led 92 registered poor households to participate by building greenhouses or renting greenhouses, and the annual net income of planting households could amount to over 20,000 yuan. The park has employed over 300 registered poor villagers and increased the annual per household income by over 3,000 yuan. View of the new settlement11 The principle means to build supporting industrial zones in the settlement zone.


X: 12.920082 Y: 0.60011524 Chapter: 1 Page: 14 Content: Wali Modern Intensive Mushroom Stick Production Base. The base adopts an “enterprise+ base+ rural households” model, wherein the enterprise takes charge of construction, production, sales and service; the base carries out uniform management and operation; and registered poor households work to increase their income. The base covers an area of 200 mu (13.3 hectares) and has a total investment of 89 million yuan. The annual output is 45 million sticks and the annual output value is 270 million yuan. The base has employed over 200 registered poor villagers. The equipment bought with the 10 million yuan of poverty reduction assistance fund donated by Xicheng District of Beijing was arranged as the fixed asset of Wali Village and Shijiazhai Village. After the base went into operation, 5% of its annual dividend is used as the collective income for health service to registered poor households, forest fire prevention, river patrol and road maintenance; these services cover 528 households. Each household can gain income of more than 1,000 yuan annually from the public welfare posts based on the working hours and the occupation. The Barren Hill Afforestation and Fruit Planting Base. The village adopts a model featuring “government+enterprise+technology+ base+rural household”, wherein the government is responsible for land requisition and water and power supply; the enterprise is responsible for land consolidation, contracting and operation; the expert is responsible for Edible Fungi Planting Base


X: 12.910642 Y: 0.6090814 Chapter: 1 Page: 15 Content: Hebei technical guidance; the base carries out uniform management; and rural households earn their income through work. To develop two fruit planting bases in Shijiazhai Village and Wali Village, Shijiazhai Fruit Planting Base has consolidated 1,650 mu (110 hectares) of land and plants 150,000 yellow peach trees. Wali Fruit Planting Base has consolidated 1,600 mu (106.7 hectares) of land and plants Scutellaria baicalensis. In the full bearing period, the base is expected to produce 7 million kilos of fruits annually. With this, the base will realize an annual output value of 60 million yuan, employ over 200 registered poor villagers and increase per household income over 3,000 yuan. Land transfer of the bases involves 265 households, in which 140 belonged to the registered poor households. The minimum land transfer fee is 800 yuan per mu for horizontal strip-field and 600 yuan per mu for dry field. For slopes, each mu can receive a dividend of 20% of shares after 4 years. Through land transfer, annual per household income can increase by over 2,000 yuan.Fruit Planting Base


X: 13.0620575 Y: 0.2527615 Chapter: 1 Page: 16 Content: Shijiazhai Chicken Raising Base  adopts a model featuring “government+ enterprise+ base+ finance+ rural households” wherein the government is responsible for water and power supply; Kangda Company is responsible for providing baby chicks, fodder, technical service, sales, slaughtering and processing; Jiaheng Base is responsible for constructing the greenhouse and carrying out uniform management; and rural households mainly contribute funds or rent greenhouses to participate. The base plans to build 39 modern chicken-raising greenhouses, one organic fertilizer treatment station and one sightseeing and picking garden. The Central Theater Command has provided 2.82 million yuan for Shijiazhai to build 3 demonstration greenhouses. These greenhouses can generate 756,000 yuan of collective income that is used for expanding reproduction and developing public welfare posts that covers 308 registered poor households and increase their annual income by 2,000 yuan. After the completion of the base, its annual number of slaughtered chicken can reach 6 million, the annual output value can reach yuan 150 million, and annual net income can reach 12 million yuan. Through cooperative operation, renting or working, villagers from 400 registered poor households can be employed, and each household can earn over 5,000 yuan.  Shijiazhai Green Circular Agricultural Demonstration Zone integrates relocation with industrial distribution development to create jobs and increase income for relocated villagers, so they can “be relocated, settle down, integrate into local society and get well-off”. Each production link in the zone can increase poor villagers’ income and solve the problem with employment. The zone makes good use of the asset income policies, leverages supporting funds to expand reproduction, strengthen the collective economy, develop public welfare posts and increase poor households’ income in order to resolve their worries about employment and income.


X: 12.2272415 Y: 7.1260896 Chapter: 1 Page: 17 Content: Hebei Hongcaohe Modern Agricultural ParkHongcaohe Modern Agricultural Park is located in Hongcaohe Village of Tianshengqiao Town, Fuping County. It is constructed by Fuyu Bojia Agricultural Integrated Development Company with a total investment of 17 million yuan. The park began construction in 2016 and opened in 2017 as the “Agricultural Innovation Station in Taihang Mountain”. The planned area of the park is 500 mu (33.3 hectares) and 360 mu of orchards has been built, including 322 mu (21.5 hectares) of apple orchards, 30 mu (2 hectares) of pear orchards, 8 mu (0.53 hectares) of cherry orchards and 3 cherry greenhouses. Agricultural Innovation Station in Taihang Mountain


X: 12.818954 Y: 0.6662062 Chapter: 1 Page: 18 Content: The park adopts a technological poverty reduction model featuring integration of apple production, technical support and research, which is rich in scientific and technological content and makes new breakthroughs in organization and operation. First, the park has featured structural adjustment. It focuses on contiguous area development, scale operation, guidance of leading enterprises and integrated development; it vigorously develops facility agriculture, water-saving agriculture, brand agriculture and high-quality and high-efficiency agriculture; and it strives to develop a modern agricultural new landscape. Second, the park makes breakthroughs in organizational models. It follows the principle of “big parks and small owners”, and quantifies the management of the orchards with a grid management method. The enterprise takes responsibility of the overall operation of the orchards and fertilizer, water and pesticide management to effectively connect “small rural households” with “modern agriculture”. Third, the park has technological support. It organizes experts from Zhengzhou Fruit Research Institute of CAAS and Agricultural University of Hebei to analyze and decide the main varieties, planting patterns, technical plans and operational strategies to guarantee modern and efficient planting management.Registered poor rural households participate in the industry and receive “three incomes”, namely rental, salary and dividend, that will help increase their stable income and eventually shake off poverty. First, they increase their income through land transfer.  Farmers’ land is transferred collectively at 1,000 yuan per mu wherein land transfer helps View of Hongcaohe Modern Agricultural Park


X: 12.826775 Y: 0.6630257 Chapter: 1 Page: 19 Content: Hebei 404 villagers in 149 households, among which 269 from 96 households are registered poor, and each household can earn 2,270 yuan. Second, they increase their income by working in the park. When it comes to the full bearing period, the park can provide more than 100 jobs for local registered poor households, and each worker can earn 10,000 yuan or more annually. Third, they increase their income through dividend,  which can help local poor households to increase their income steadily. The park also focuses on three breakthroughs and four features based on the development needs of the fruit industry. Three breakthroughs include developing new varieties, new techniques, new products, organization forms and operation models; improving the industrial structure, promoting economic development and promoting targeted poverty reduction; and integrated testing and demonstration of industrial technological upgrading. The four features include playing a leading and demonstrative role in building excellent planting gardens, promoting new fine breeds and developing high-quality and high-efficiency planting models; realizing mechanized planting and efficient trickle irrigation featuring integration of fertilizer into water and achieve technological synchronization with advanced agricultural countries; collecting big data information and monitoring the data of growing conditions, soil moisture content, climate and plant diseases and insect pests, and exploring a new “Internet+” agricultural model; and exploring new management models and functions of orchards and developing an industrial chain consisting of production, leisure activity, fruit picking and sightseeing, and bringing new content to orchards.


X: 1.5685015 Y: 3.9618208 Chapter: 1 Page: 20 Content: Fuping Vocational Technical Education CenterFuping V ocational Technical Education Center was established in 1994 with a total area of 518.88 mu (34.6 hectares) and a building area of 24 hectares. It is a comprehensive vocational school that integrates ordinary technical secondary school education, “3+2” training, “3+4” training, higher vocational education, adult education and short-term training. It is a national-level key secondary vocational school and one of the first batches of national secondary vocational education reform demonstration schools. As a Baoding Pilot School of V ocational and General Education Financing, the "9+2" V ocational Education Cooperation Zone, and the leading school of "Beijing Yantai District V ocational Education Poverty Alleviation Cooperation Zone", it has been successively rated as the national advanced unit of vocational education,national advanced collective of the education system, famous school of Hebei quality improvement project, national poverty alleviation exchange base (investigation point), and the national high-quality school of rural revitalization talent training.Fuping V ocational Technical Education Center is divided into three areas: sports living area, teaching and training area, and productive training area. It has modern teaching buildings, training buildings, student apartments, full plastic standard sports fields, basketball halls, swimming pools, libraries, and student activity centers. The environment is beautiful and the layout is reasonable. There are 476 teaching staff and 8,258 students at school. It mainly offers 21 secondary and higher vocational majors (directions) such as automobile manufacturing and maintenance, computer application, leisure agricultural production and operation, e-commerce, logistics management, crop production technology, and new energy vehicles.Since 2013, over 8,000 students have graduated from the center, including 3,800 from registered poor families. 100% of students have found jobs after graduation at first time, and 90.6% have remained


X: 1.485141 Y: 3.9599583 Chapter: 1 Page: 21 Content: Hebei in stable employment for three years. The center has led over 3,000 poor households in the county to shake off poverty and cut off inter-generational transmission of poverty, achieved the poverty alleviation goal of "one person for training, one person for employment and one family for poverty alleviation".It gives full play to the advantages of the central national unit in targeted poverty alleviation and assistance, and makes the specialty bigger and stronger. Since 2013, the State Administration has successively coordinated with 8 auto enterprises including FAW, SAIC, Great Wall, BYD, BAIC, Great Wall, Geely and GAC to jointly build the Mengxiang Auto Training Base. The automobile enterprises have invested more than 80 million yuan in equipment, selected more than 200 experts and teachers as teaching assistants, and set up enterprise scholarships, awards, and teaching grants. The school and the enterprises have achieved in-depth cooperation in the whole process of teaching, including bases, teachers, students, and employment, supporting the large-scale and high-quality development of the automobile specialty in the middle and higher vocational schools. The Mengxiang Automobile Training Base has recruited 5,481 people, including 2,841 people in the "9+2" cooperation area and Yantai area. A number of typical employment models have emerged, which has driven more than 3,000 families out of poverty, and has been unanimously recognized and praised by students, parents and the society. Relevant deeds have been reported by the People's Daily, CCTV and other media, and have now become a demonstration project for poverty alleviation and development in the "Yanshan Taihang Mountain" contiguous poverty-stricken areas.Fuping Automobile Training BaseThe Center takes advantage of vocational education and provides employment training. The Center focuses around the development


X: 8.494033 Y: -5.438357 Chapter: 1 Page: 22 Content: Fuping V ocational Education Center's new professional farmer training fruit tree production technology class went out to Shijiazhuang Fruit Tree Institute to studyXu Chao, a poverty-stricken student who set up a filing card in Chahe Malan Community, Nanzhuang Town, Fuping, worked as an auto inspector in Chang'an Auto in 2015, with an annual income of 30,000 to 50,000 yuan.needs of leading industries, such as edible fungi planting, mountain apple planting, watermelon planting, cherry planting and folk tourism, integrates all kinds of training funds related to poverty reduction and agriculture, adopts “vocational education + enterprises”, “vocational education + cooperatives”, “vocational education + village committees” and other models, and creates “Wechat+” learning and service models to provide training and teaching. It uses mushroom greenhouses, cherry bases and pear bases as classrooms, and has provided training on mushroom, watermelon, cherry and pear planting for 47,500 people, including 34,200 from registered poor families, and has benefited 3,652 poor families. Since 2016, 30,840 new professional farmers have been trained, benefiting 1,595 people, and the annual average household income has increased by more than 5,000 yuan; In 2021, it undertook the task of "Fuping County V ocational Skill Improvement Action", training 17,101 man-time, benefiting 863 people.


X: 1.5151633 Y: 3.9295812 Chapter: 1 Page: 23 Content: Hebei The Center established a platform to lead a region. In 2013, Fuping V ocational Technical Education Center uses Mengxiang Automobile Training Base to organize a “9+2” vocational education cooperation zone that covers 11 poor counties (Fuping, Quyang, Tangxian, Shunping, Wangdu, Boye, Yixian, Laiyuan and Laishui of Baoding, Hebei and Fanzhi and Wutai of Xinzhou, Shanxi) . At the end of 2017, it successfully established the Beijing-Yantai Regional V ocational Education Poverty Reduction Cooperation Zone. Members of the zone include 33 national level poor counties in Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia, and 38 vocational schools and 15 secondary and higher vocational schools in Beijing. They joined hands to explore a regional poverty reduction model featuring “collective vocational training + targeted poverty reduction + regional coordinated development” to share experience on targeted poverty reduction in contiguous poor areas, regional coordinated development, misplace development, complementary advantage utilization and resource sharing. “It is better to teach people how to fish than to give them fishes”. Fuping V ocational Technical Education Center fully uses the advantages and features of vocational education, innovates poverty reduction methods and means, improves poor people’s self-development capacity, improves the indigenous power and strives to eventually realize steady poverty reduction and sustainable development.Fuping V ocational Technical Education Center New V ocational Farmers Training Course on Fruit Tree Production Technology


X: 13.065936 Y: 0.24303184 Chapter: 1 Page: 24 Content: Jiuxing Chicken Breeding Poverty Reduction ProgramJiuxing Chicken Breeding Poverty Reduction Program was constructed by the Laiyuan County Government and Hebei Jiuxing Agricultural and Husbandry Development Company with a total investment of 1.709 billion yuan. Laiyuan County Government invested 750 million yuan of poverty reduction funds to build 450 standard henhouses which can produce 81 million chickens annually; Jiuxing Agricultural and Husbandry Development Company invested 959 million yuan, including 580 million yuan for a slaughter house with a slaughter capacity of 81 million chickens (0.27 million per day), 180 million yuan for a fodder plant with an annual output of 0.5 million tons, 99 million yuan for a chicken incubation base with an annual incubation capacity of 100 million chickens, and 100 million yuan for an organic fertilizer plant with an annual treatment capacity of 100,000 tons. The program can reach a total annual sales revenue of 3 billion yuan and create 92 million yuan of profit and tax.The program adopts advanced domestic and overseas facilities that covers the whole industrial chain from chicken breeding, chick incubation, fodder-processing, broiler breeding, to slaughter and processing, and organic fertilizer processing that further realizes integrated development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries. The program provides over 3,000 jobs related to breeding, incubation, processing and logistics, employed over 3000 local villagers and steadily increases the income of over 3,000 families by over 30,000 yuan. According to the provisional statistics, the program can increase per household income by over 3,000 yuan. At the same time, broiler breeding, corn and sorghum planting and other related industries can lead tens of thousands of people to increase their income. Jiuxing Company is an institution engaging in industrialized programs on national agricultural integrated development, and a leading poverty reduction enterprise in Introduction to the Field Visit Sites in Laiyuan County


X: 12.230087 Y: 7.0789485 Chapter: 1 Page: 25 Content: Hebei Joint construction plant area in ChezhuaigouFeed Factory


X: 13.064574 Y: 0.24604855 Chapter: 1 Page: 26 Content: Hebei. “Jiuxing” chicken is certified by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs as a nuisance free agricultural product and it is also a provincially-renowned brand and consumer-trusted product in Hebei. First, the program adopts an entrusted breeding model featuring “five uniform factors and five leads” to enable “leading enterprises to manage the market, the production bases to enter the rural areas, the enterprises shoulder the risks and poor families gain stable income”. The “five uniform factors” refer to uniform provision of chicks, uniform provision of veterinary medicines, uniform provision of fodder, uniform technical service and uniform repurchase; while the “five leads” means leading poor households with labor capacity to participate in production through technical training, gain stable income through the building of hen houses, find market for corn and other farm products with the fodder needs created by large-scale chicken breeding, leading poor households to participate in logistics through the transportation of fodder and chicks, leading the sound and orderly development of the industries by developing a husbandry cycle consisting of deep processing, market sales, organic fertilizer processing and fodder processing and sales. Second, the program adopts an interest-binding model featuring “five +” and “four rights”. The program adopts a “cooperative +” model featuring “leading enterprises + breeding base + village committee and party committee + cooperatives + poor households” to enable leading enterprises to manage the market, the production bases to enter the rural areas, the enterprises shoulder the risks, and poor families to gain stable income. At the same time, the program adopts an interest-binding model that separates “four rights”, in which the ownership of breeding farms built with integrated funds and supporting funds belongs to the village collective, the right of management is entrusted by the village committee and party committee to the cooperative, the right to earnings belongs to all poor members of the cooperative, and the right of supervision is executed on the basis of laws and regulations by the financial, poverty reduction and auditing departments and the county people’s government. Jiuxing Company is responsible for the supply and sales ends, and can make up for the shortcomings of the village cooperatives and poor households in terms of production. Third, the program adopts a joint-development model among multiple villages. On the basis of the geographical conditions of the


X: 13.065833 Y: 0.24310061 Chapter: 1 Page: 27 Content: Hebei county, the program builds joint-development henhouses, in which the equity belongs to multiple village collectives. At the same time, the program distributes each henhouse to specific village collectives to improve their sense of responsibility while ensuring fair distribution of profits. Fourth, the program adopts a centralized management and operation model. In the Jiuxing Chicken Breeding Program, the village party branch takes the lead to organize cooperatives to transform fiscal poverty reduction funds into capital that is owned by the village collective and poor households. The shares are distributed to each household and are invested and managed by the cooperative. The cooperative is responsible for daily management and operation of the breeding enterprise, and the annual final revenue goes to the collective after deducting other costs and fees. At the end of August 2022, the revenue of the cooperatives of Jiuxing Chicken Breeding Program reached 14,029 yuan. At the same time, the program also explores pension fund, medical fund and education fund, and increases expenditure on small public welfare programs, public welfare posts, grants and subsidies to push for common development, co-governance and shared benefits, and enable poor and non-poor villagers to enjoy the outcomes of reform and development. Villagers receiving dividends from the cooperative


X: 8.499869 Y: 1.6837254 Chapter: 1 Page: 28 Content: Villagers receiving dividends from the cooperative


X: 10.42203 Y: 0.8906166 Chapter: 1 Page: 29 Content: Hebei Niulan New VillageBei Niulan Village is located deep in the Taihang Mountain, with a total area of 12,000 mu (800 hectares), including 480 mu (32 hectares) of arable land and 3000 mu (200 hectares) of forests. The village has 292 villagers in 121 households. In 2016, per capita net income in the village was 2,300 yuan, 133 villagers in 49 households were registered poor people and poverty incidence was at 46%. Surrounded by mountains and with inconvenient transportation, poor housing conditions and weak industrial basis, it is a provincial-level destitute village. At the end of 2018, it was able to shake off poverty. At the end of 2019, per capita disposable income reached 10,000 yuan, 4 times higher than in 2016, and poverty incidence rate 46% in 2016 dropped to zero. Because of this, the village has transformed into a completely new appearance. In September, 2020, leaders from the State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development made a field visit to the village and affirmed its achievements. On October 4, the “Live-stream on Poverty Reduction” program of CCTV-2(Economy) featured the development and the current state of the village.Bei Niulan Village in the past


X: 10.428792 Y: 0.87041426 Chapter: 1 Page: 30 Content: The Organization Department of the CPC Hebei Provincial Committee dispatched its working team to the village. Bei Niulan Village grasps the opportunities of Beijing-Hebei poverty reduction cooperation, combines poverty reduction with ambition building and intellectual support, focuses on party development to promote poverty reduction, explores the development of planting and breeding industries and embarks on a path towards development. First, the village grasps the opportunities of Beijing-Hebei poverty reduction cooperation to change its environment. Since 2017, the county, town and village levels have taken the opportunity of East-West poverty reduction cooperation and the village appearance improvement program in Hebei to push for the village renovation. The village received monetary support amounting to 10 million yuan that was provided by Fengtai District of Beijing, and Hebei Province also provides over 1 million yuan each year and arranges Gaobeidian City to provide one-on-one support for Laiyuan County. With the above-mentioned support, 65 houses were built, with a total area of 4,494.32 square meters, over Bei Niulan Village at present


X: 8.444845 Y: 4.1095223 Chapter: 1 Page: 31 Content: Hebei 100 street lamps were installed, 933 meters of dams and 3,000 meters of road were built, two water flushing public toilets were built, more than 3,000 greening trees will be planted, and 112 meters of guardrails were installed,and access to safe water program was implemented. Because of this, the previously destitute village was able to move its villagers to their new houses. Breeding communityPhotovoltage power generation industry


X: 10.424878 Y: 0.90090406 Chapter: 1 Page: 32 Content: Second, the village combines poverty reduction with ambition building and intellectual support to create cohesion. The village sticks to five measures to improve people’s indigenous power. It leads villagers to work hard. The village distributes ambition calendars and “good life” photo frames, carries out the “most beautiful yard” event, and establish logos and banners on diligence in order to create an atmosphere that all happiness comes from hard work. It leads villagers to industrial development. The village applied for 1 million yuan to build a large animal breeding community and mobilized villagers to engage in cow breeding. The total size of the industry has reached 150 cows and helped to realize the goal of poverty reduction. It leads villagers to enter classrooms. In opening the Niulan Night School, the village follows the principle of “the public set questions, talents provide teaching, villagers become students and the village becomes classrooms” in order to enable them to be patriotic, hardworking, active and lively farmers in the new era. It leads villagers to enter public undertakings. The village mobilizes villagers to participate in cleaning and environmental renovation to improve their collective spirit. The village opens charity supermarkets Party development events


X: 10.386223 Y: 0.89706075 Chapter: 1 Page: 33 Content: Hebei to care for the poor villagers and give back to those who love others. It leads villagers to be involved in cultural events. The village built an integrated cultural center that covers 124.6 square meters, organized dancing teams, gong and drum teams and WeChat groups to resolve the scarcity of spiritual life and boost their confidence in entrepreneurship.Since the beginning of the poverty reduction battle, the whole village has worked with firm confidence. By improving the living conditions, developing profitable industries and improving indigenous power, it actively guides villagers to independently shake off poverty, improves grassroots governance and show the great changes brought about by poverty reduction.


X: 6.774176 Y: 0.19421795 Chapter: 1 Page: 34 Content: Yesanpo Tourism-Driven Poverty Reduction ProgramLaishui County is located to the Southwest of Beijing, with a total area of 1,650 square kilometers, and 80.3% of which is hills and mountains. The county is located in Yanshan Mountain-Taihang Mountain contiguous destitute area, and is one of the 9 key poverty reduction demonstration counties around Beijing identified by Hebei Province. There were 12,266 registered poor people in 6,599 households shake of poverty in the county. Laishui County utilizes the rapid development of rural tourism in Yesanpo Scenic Zone and takes Nanyu Village and Bailixia Village as examples to explore a tourist poverty reduction model featuring “two leads and four actions”. The model entails that the scenic zone lead villages and let capable persons lead families, and actions to develop industries, organize the public, link the interests and uphold the culture and indigenous power . So far, Yesanpo Scenic Zone has over 1,300 rural inns and homestays, which can serve 60,000 visitors daily. The zone covers 7 counties and towns and 90 villages, employs 25,000 people and benefits around 100,000 people, making it the largest rural tourist cluster in Hebei. The scenic zone has pushed forward rural tourism development in 5 surrounding counties and towns and led 5,015 registered poor people in 71 poor villages to shake off poverty.Introduction to the Field Visit Sites in Laishui County


X: 6.776479 Y: 0.19500464 Chapter: 1 Page: 35 Content: Hebei Yesanpo in the pastNanyu Village is located in the East of the Yesanpo Scenic Zone. There are 687 villagers in 281 households in the village, including 68 registered poor villagers in 44 households. In 2017, the village generally shook off poverty. With the “Beautiful Village-Sumsung Sharing Village” Program co-launched by China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation and Sumsung China, the village established a market-oriented business model and transformed 15 idle old houses into high-end homestays. In 2019, 15 houses received 9,600 visitors and gained a total revenue of 3.65 million yuan. They helped the village collective to increase their income by 80,000 yuan, helped each poor villager to increase their income by 4,000 yuan, and helped Yesanpo at present


X: 6.7739096 Y: 0.1956533 Chapter: 1 Page: 36 Content: Bailixia Village has 1,704 villagers in 659 households. So far, over 90% of the households in the village are engaged in rural tourism. The village has over 400 rural inns and homestays, 5,600 beds and 20 supermarkets. More than 30 villagers are engaged in transportation service, 8 households are engaged in bicycle tandem service, and 4 households are engaged in kart racing and trampoline service. In 2019, the village received 200,000 visitors, and per capita income reached Interior view of high-end home stayHigh-end homestayeach ordinary villager to increase their income by 1,000 yuan. Thus, the village established the “flowering hillside” homestay brand.


X: 6.773492 Y: 0.19381309 Chapter: 1 Page: 37 Content: Hebei 30,000 yuan, making the village a leading tourist village in China. Through tourism, the village has shaken off poverty. Bailixia Scenic ZoneFirst, the program takes “seven lead” measures to lead village development. The program uses tourism planing to lead village development. It formulates tourism-driven poverty reduction plans based on the general plan of the Yesanpo Scenic Zone. So far, 33 villages have Bailixia Scenic Zone


X: 6.8027015 Y: 0.19586986 Chapter: 1 Page: 38 Content: completed their tourism-driven poverty reduction plan and incorporated them into the general plan of the scenic zone. The program uses tourism to lead village development. In 2016, the program took the opportunity of the provincial tourism and development meeting to develop over 10 new tourist programs, and expanded the area of the zone from 500 square kilometers to 700 square kilometers. At the same time, it develops new rural tourist models based on the conditions of each village and the total number of featured tourist villages has reached 28. The program uses infrastructure to lead village development. The program accelerates the development of tourist infrastructure based on the standards for national 5A-level tourist zones. It has built or renovated 35.8 kilometers of roads and 13 bridges, paved or transformed 15,100 meters of water pipelines and upgraded power grids for 15 villages. The program uses tourist environment to lead village development. It strives to improve the tourist environment in line with the development of beautiful villages. Since 2016, 31 villages in the Yesanpo Scenic Zone carried out beautiful village development programs. The program develops the homestay industry and establishes the “flowering hillside” homestay brand to create a model for rural tourism-driven poverty reduction. The program uses tourist training to lead village development. The program provides skill training for poor groups to help them integrate into the industry. Three training bases were established in Bailixia Art Town which has provided 20 training courses for 2000 people. The program uses tourist marketing to lead village development. The program incorporates all tourist poverty reduction villages into the general layout of the tourist demonstration zone, and includes featured towns and tourist villages into the smart scenic zone system and high-quality tourist routes. The program manages and promotes them in a systematic manner. The program uses asset platforms to lead village development. The program shares tourist resources and ecological resources. The county government invested 53.9167 million yuan of tourist poverty reduction fund in Yesanpo Tourist Investment Company and uses them as dividends for poverty reduction target groups. So far, 25.10097 million yuan of dividends has been distributed.


X: 8.446096 Y: 4.2357197 Chapter: 1 Page: 39 Content: Hebei Newly-built roads and bridges


X: 10.426537 Y: 1.0497041 Chapter: 1 Page: 40 Content: Second, the program uses capable persons to lead households and takes “four lead” measures. Let companies to lead villagers. The program introduced industrial and commercial capital and tourist management companies, and linked interests with poor households Tourist poverty reduction training


X: 6.7974296 Y: 0.19592996 Chapter: 1 Page: 41 Content: Hebei Homestaysthrough share dividend, land transfer and employment, it established joint-stock cooperatives to increase poor villagers’ income through equity participation, and it developed homestays to provide jobs for poor villagers. Because of these, the total number of homestays in Yesanpo Scenic Zone has reached 2,203. Let entrepreneurs that return to hometown lead others. The program strengthens policy support and fund support to attract migrant workers to return home to open homestays and create jobs. Let rich villagers lead others. Villagers who became prosperous first can provide jobs for poor villagers and train them tourist skills to increase their salary or business income. Let party member lead others. The program encourages party members to form pairs with poor villagers to provide support and guidance. Third, the program arouses the motivation of the public and the industrial vitality, and achieves four goals. The first is to develop industries. The program developed a batch of new tourist models, established 23 tourist poverty reduction cooperatives and built or renovated 800 homestays. The second is to organize the public. Grassroots organizations and government agencies improve the public organizations by providing skill training, setting public welfare posts, supporting


X: 10.422461 Y: 1.0551665 Chapter: 1 Page: 42 Content: independent management and encouraging entrepreneurship. The third is to link interests. The program uses county-level tourist asset revenues to support tourist platforms and tourist poverty reduction cooperatives to ensure the benefits are enjoyed by the households. The fourth is to uphold culture and indigenous power. The program attaches equal importance to material poverty reduction and spiritual poverty reduction. It respects rural culture and historical heritage, strives to develop folk customs in the new era and break the lifestyle of “getting accustomed to poverty”.


X: 11.232359 Y: 5.97599 Chapter: 2 Page: 44 Content: Afforestation Cooperative in Dongkouzi VillageDongkouzi Village is a poor village in Hekou Town, Lanxian County. Located at the juncture of Lanxian, Xingxian and Kelan, it is 40 kilometers away from downtown Lanxian. The village has no resources and poor industrial basis, and villagers mainly live on agriculture. It is a typical ecologically fragile and economically backward area. There were 1,253 villagers in the village that includes 651 registered poor villagers in 2014. The total arable land area in the village is 2,300 mu (153 hectares), most of which is barren hills and slopes. The cooperative led poor villagers to plant typical trees that have higher economic value, carry out deep processing of farm products, and create jobs for poor villagers. Thus, increasing the members’ per-capita income by over 5,000 yuan. Poor villagers engaging in afforestation have increased their per-capita income by 4,000 yuan, and the whole village has been lifted out of poverty. Introduction to the Field Visit Sites in Lanxian CountyMembers of Senshengcai Poverty Reduction Afforestation Cooperative


X: 11.223725 Y: 5.9911003 Chapter: 2 Page: 45 Content: Shanxi Dongkouzi Village follows President Xi Jinping’s idea of “lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets”, considers the reality of ecological fragility and backwardness, and attaches equal importance to targeted poverty reduction and ecological management. The Party Committee Secretary took the lead to adopt the “party branch + village committee + company + cooperative + rural households” model, and organized 33 poor households to establish the first poverty reduction afforestation cooperative in China. They carried out an afforestation pilot program on 1000 mu of land in the village, and explored a series of ecological conservation poverty reduction and afforestation models such as purchase-based afforestation, afforestation with forest asset revenue, purchase-based management and protection, sea-buckthorn industrial development, and joint-improvement of poverty reduction afforestation cooperatives. Thus, realizing organic combination of ecological development and poverty reduction and achieving win-win results. First, the cooperative encourages and guides poor households to participate in afforestation to increase their income. Competent persons take the lead to establish poverty reduction afforestation cooperatives that was participated by poor households. Also, the government encourages direct afforestation tasks and funds poor villages and households to increase the labor capacity and participation in afforestation programs. When the forest meets the acceptance standard, the government repurchases the forest, in the form of social service purchase, to bring profits to poor households.Members of Senshengcai Poverty Reduction Afforestation Cooperative participating in ecological afforestation


X: 8.858126 Y: 1.5584921 Chapter: 2 Page: 46 Content: Second, the cooperative innovates new forestry asset return mechanisms to bring more profits to poor households. The cooperative innovates the afforestation mechanism that allows forest management right to be quantified and used for equal shareholding of the cooperative and carries out afforestation enterprise pilot programs. It grasps the opportunity of the new round of returning farmland to forests and realizes the separation of land ownership, contracting right and management right through uniform land transfer, unified stock equity participation, and unified enterprise management. With these measures, it transforms resources into assets, capital into stock equity, and poor households into shareholders. While poor households can enjoy the subsidies on returning farmland to forests, they entrust their stock rights to the village collective shareholding, quantifying their management rights into company shares. Also, the land is used to plant high-quality sea-buckthorn and villagers can receive at least 6% of the business revenue as dividend. Thus, the villager’s income is doubled.Third, the cooperative carries out purchase-based management and protection to provide jobs for poor households and increase their income. The village also established a poverty reduction forest management cooperative wherein registered poor households protect and manage the newly planted forests for a long period of time and assume the role of paid forest rangers and ecological protectors. With this, it increases their income and gets them rid of poverty. A member of the poverty reduction forest management cooperative is managing the afforestation base.


X: 11.203103 Y: 6.013741 Chapter: 2 Page: 47 Content: Shanxi Since 2016, Senshengcai Poverty Reduction Afforestation Cooperative of Dongkouzi Village has carried out about 1,350 mu (90 hectares) purchase-based afforestation, undertaken about the land size of 5538.2 mu (369 hectares) forest asset return programs and achieved annual income of 800,000 yuan. Members of the cooperative have increased their per-capita annual income by 5,000 yuan, and over 300 poor households participated in afforestation have increased their per-household income by more than 4,000 yuan. Over the years, Lanxian County has established 102 similar afforestation cooperatives, from 2016 to 2019, the cumulative implementation of returning farmland to forests was undertaken,which carried out about the land size of 329,700 mu (21,980 hectares) afforestation programs. These programs cover 1,677 registered poor households in 121 villages in 12 counties and towns, and increased per-capita income by 4000 yuan for 5,155 poor villagers. By organizing poor villagers, the cooperative has improved the level of organization, and over 1,700 households have changed the situation of isolation, learned skills from the cooperative, strengthened their capacity to fight against poverty, and increased their income. The cooperative has boosted the indigenous power of the poor people and strengthened their confidence to become rich. More and more poor households in Lanxian are participating in these cooperatives to increase their income and change their lives. Afforestation program carried out by Senshengcai Poverty Reduction Afforestation Cooperative


X: 11.54298 Y: 0.26276174 Chapter: 2 Page: 48 Content: Resettlement in SongjiagouSongjiagou Village is 13 kilometers from downtown where the Songjiagou County Government is located. The village has 3,338 mu (222 hectares) of arable land, and 1,395 villagers in 626 households, including 563 registered poor villagers in 248 households. The villagers were generally poor educated and mainly live on planting and herding sheep. Due to diseases, education expenses, and disasters, poverty incidence was as high as 40% and the village collective income accounted zero for a long time. However, compared with surrounding villages, Songjiagou Village has a good traffic location. It is only 2.5 kilometers from the highway entrance, and with concentrated residential distribution, rich land resources, good ecological conditions, schools, hospitals, forestry station and other built public service facilities, the village has huge capacity to accommodate the relocation of the rural poor. Introduction to the Field Visit Sites in Kelan CountyPanoramic view of Songjiagou in the past


X: 11.545488 Y: 0.27679786 Chapter: 2 Page: 49 Content: Shanxi On June 21, 2017, President Xi Jinping visited Songjiagou during his trip to Shanxi, and fully recognized Kelan County’s measure to eliminate absolute poverty through relocation of rural poor. According to the “1+8+N” relocation plan of the county, Songjiagou is one of the identified 8 resettlement zones. It combines relocation with beautiful village development, interconnects “six links” to solve seven problems, and took the lead to complete the settlement construction, provide supporting policies and achieve the goal of poverty reduction.                                                                                First, the village renovates the settlement for relocated people to improve the living conditions. The village built 265 settlement houses to accommodate 265 relocated people in 145 households from 14 surrounding villages. All the villagers lived in the new houses by the end of 2017 without getting into debts. The village also carried out the “five features of village” program, namely building beautiful, sanitized, clean, civilized and peaceful village. It improved public facilities including hospitals, schools, cultural plazas, libraries, supermarkets, restaurants and public bathhouses, provided full water and power access, and full internet coverage. Villagers can now live a life as the same living standards as city residents.New image of Songjiagou


X: 9.610668 Y: 2.0782862 Chapter: 2 Page: 50 Content: Second, the village vigorously develops featured industries to expand income channels for villagers. In order to maintain sustainable increased income for villagers, the village developed featured industries related to greenhouses, field crops, potatoes, sea-buckthorn, mushrooms and economic forests, and establishes an “enterprise + cooperative + poor household” interest linking mechanism. The greenhouses led 57 poor households to increase annual income by 30,000 yuan; the economic forests led 28 poor households to increase annual income by 10,000 yuan; Songjiagou Functional Food Company led 98 poor households to increase annual income by 9,700 yuan through sea-buckthorn picking; the afforestation cooperative led 184 poor households to increase annual income by 10,000 yuan; handicraft training led 15 poor households to increase annual income by 1,500 yuan; the bag factory led 17 poor households to increase annual income by 3,000 yuan; and the photovoltage programs helped related households to increase income by 3,000 yuan. Third, the village develops rural tourism to further pave the way for poverty reduction. The village, the Songjiagou Rural Tourist Plan and the general scenic zone plan collaborated to improve the overall appearance of all the old, new, and idle houses and yards. They have built parking lots and tourist reception centers, introduced Tiancheng Tourism and Culture Company that opened 12 e-commercial shops, stores and homestays, and developed 57 rooms in 26 rural homestays. The village also actively opens farm product processing workshops to develop souvenirs with local characteristics, featured snacks, traditional skills and handicraft performances. The village was rated as a AAA-level tourist zone, held two “6.21” Songjiagou Rural Tourist Seasons, generated 2.6 million yuan of income since 2018. Tourism has become the key pillar Poor villagers are making sea-buckthorn tea in the workshop


X: 11.647467 Y: 0.5656862 Chapter: 2 Page: 51 Content: Shanxi industry of Songjiagou Village .Fourth, the village promotes cultural development to stimulate indigenous power. The village combines poverty reduction with ambition building, intellectual support, capacity building and moral development. It focuses on party development, and actively carries out the selection of “red flag party branch, civilized red flag village, red flag work group and independent poverty reduction example family”. It opens charity supermarkets, establishes elderly care fund, arranges production, yard cleaning and labor service grants and subsidies to provide material incentives. It sets up awards such as “Kelan Best Man”, “Merit Families”, “Best Parents-in-Law, Best Daughter-in-Law and Best Son and Daughter” and “heart-to-heart practice” to form a civilized, positive and grateful culture and uphold moral justice. By the end of 2017, Songjiagou Village got out of poverty with a per-capita net income of 6,391 yuan and a village collective economic income of 85,000 yuan. In 2018, the annual per-capita net income reached 7,792 yuan;by the end of 2021, the per capita net income of farmers in the village will reach 13,840 yuan, of which the per capita disposable income of the relocated people will increase from 7,133 yuan at the end of 2017 to 15,022 yuan at the end of 2021. In 2018, Songjiagou Village was rated as a national AAA-level scenic zone, and people are moving towards a well-off life after being lifted out of poverty. The village has achieved the goal of “Three Guarantees”. First, education support policies were all implemented which ensured no school-aged children will drop-out due to poverty. The village built a new school campus, recruited 10 more teachers, and opened IT, Scientific Experiment, Music, Art and PE lessons. Over the years, 47 students were admitted to junior colleges or higher-level education institutions. Second, collective treatment of severe diseases, full cover of medical service for severe symptoms and contract service for chronic disease are guaranteed. The cure rate of severe diseases and the coverage rate of basic medicine in rural clinics have reached 100%; the village was equipped with general medical practitioners, and the availability and affordability of medical service were improved. Third, housing safety was dynamically managed and all safety loopholes were removed. Fourth, the village has carried out 15 campaigns to build one waste water treatment plant, 3 garbage disposal stations, 5 public toilets, and renovated 291 sanitary toilets to improve the village’s living conditions.


X: 10.246087 Y: 6.9601045 Chapter: 2 Page: 52 Content: Youyu Spirit Exhibition CenterYouyu Spirit Exhibition Center is located in Youyu Cadre Academy, which covers an area of 1,600 square meters. The center was launched in July 2013, and is an important centre to study and uphold Youyu spirit. The exhibition centers, around President Xi Jinping’s important instructions on Youyu spirit, tells the story of Youyu’s party members and officials serving the people and forging Youyu spirit, and shows the process of how the officials and people worked in solidarity to control sandstorms and plant forests. In September 2019, Youyu Spirit Exhibition Center was rated as a national patriotism education study base. In October 2020, Youyu Spirit Exhibition Center added a poverty reduction column and showcases Introduction to the Field Visit Sites in Youyu CountyA View of Youyu Spirit Exhibition Center (picture provided by Youyu Spirit Exhibition Center)


X: 10.227861 Y: 6.9777927 Chapter: 2 Page: 53 Content: Shanxi Theme exhibition: Youyu’s poverty reduction practice (picture provided by Youyu Spirit Exhibition Center)the answers to the questions of who to receive support, who to provide support, how to support and how to exit through pictures, material objects and charts. Since the opening of the center, it received over 300,000 visitors cumulatively, which is about 80,000 visitors annually. In October 2020, based on the need to develop a poverty reduction experience exchange base, Youyu renovated the center, and added a column themed “Youyu’s Poverty Reduction Practice”. The column is 20 meters long, and is divided into 9 themes, namely “foreword”, “party development leads overall planning”, “the profitable ecological conservation for poverty reduction”, “rural industry lays the foundation for poverty reduction”, “relocation brings happy life”, “education and medical service provides support”, “social assistance comes from all social sources”, “intellectual support and ambition building arouses” and “rural rejuvenation builds a beautiful hometown”. The exhibition gives systematic answers to the questions of who to receive support, who to provide support, how to support, how to exit and how to connect the result of poverty reduction with rural revitalization, and showcases poverty reduction practice through ecological conservation in the county. At the same time, the center also made videos on poverty reduction, which are displayed in the center to show Youyu’s poverty reduction outcomes in an artistic and vivid way.


X: 11.105309 Y: 6.2348714 Chapter: 2 Page: 54 Content: General situation of poverty reduction in Youyu: Youyu County is located at the juncture of Shanxi and Inner Mongolia, in the alpine cold and dry areas in northwest Shanxi. It has 172 administrative villages and 116,000 people; the county covers 1,969 square kilometers. Since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China, Youyu raised its greening rate from less than 0.3% to 56%, creating an ecological miracle of transforming a barren land to an oasis. But at the beginning of the 21st century, Youyu was still considered as a national-level poor county. After the targeted poverty reduction battle began in 2014, Youyu follows the requirement of major political tasks and primary livelihood projects, utilizes its ecological advantages, and firmly implements the targeted poverty reduction strategy. It strictly implements the responsibility letter system, promotes “eight programs and 20 actions”, coordinates industrial preferential policies, and provides household-based policies. In 2017, the county was lifted out of poverty. In August 2018, the county was approved by the provincial government to become one of the first batch of counties that will graduate from the list of national poverty counties. Ecological conservation poverty reduction in Youyu: the county stands on local ecological advantages, focuses on “returning farmland to forests, conservation, management and use”, and innovates working methods to carry out ecological conservation for poverty reduction. This is a key step for the county’s local poverty reduction.First, on “returning farmland to forests”, the county works to return farmland to forests and to increase transfer income of the poor. On one hand, the county focuses on the installment compensation and forest management of the 105,000 mu (7,000 hectares) of farmland reclaimed in the first round of returning farmland to forests between 2002 and 2006. On the other hand, it actively applied for quotas after the new round of returning farmland to forests began. In 2017, it successfully incorporated 630 mu (42 hectares) of arable land on steep slope (with a slope of over 25°) into the new round. In 2019, Youyu once again received the task of returning 159,400 mu (10,626 hectares) of farmland to forests. According to statistics, in the five-year subsidized period, farmers in Youyu can receive 240.045 million yuan (1,500 yuan for each mu) of subsidies, in which 80.393 million yuan has been distributed.


X: 11.098952 Y: 6.2166734 Chapter: 2 Page: 55 Content: Shanxi Second, on “conservation”, the county strives to create jobs to increase salary income for poor people. In view that the county was rich in investment channels, which were generally not accessible to poor people, Youyu County registered 34 afforestation cooperatives and assigned them with the afforestation programs implemented during the 13th five-year period in order to increase poor people’s income from ecological development investment. So far, afforestation cooperatives in Youyu have recruited 712 members. Since 2017, 476 poor laborers have participated in the ecological conservation programs. These programs have helped Youyu County to become the first county in the city to greening all eligible barren hills in 2020. Third, on “management”, the county focuses on forest rangers’ recruitment to create jobs for poor people. Since 2016, Youyu integrated funds from national level public forests, local public forests and forest rangers, and the revenues from the green ecological conservation program and PV poverty reduction programs supported by China Longyuan Power Group to develop forest ranger teams. So far, Youyu has recruited 538 poor people as long-term rangers, and increased their annual income by 7,800 yuan; the county has also hired 3,500 poor people as temporary rangers during emergency seasons with salary of 80 yuan a day, which has increased the poor’s personal income by 1,000 yuan a year. Poverty reduction contents in Youyu Spirit Exhibition Center (picture provided by Youyu Spirit Exhibition Center)


X: 11.088006 Y: 6.220315 Chapter: 2 Page: 56 Content: Fourth, on “use”, the county makes good use of green resources to increase poor people’s income. The county vigorously develops green processing industry. The whole county plants 280,000 mu (18,667 hectares) of sea-buckthorn trees, with an annual output of over 5,000 tons and a total sale of 30 million yuan. It also develops featured planting industries. Based on its advantages as a national minor coarse cereal base, the county develops the coarse cereal industry and plants around 350,000 mu (23,333 hectares) of coarse cereal. The county develops ecological husbandry. Youyu mutton is the first animal product to become a national product of geographical indication in Shanxi, and the total number of sheep raised in the county reached 750,000. The county strives to develop rural tourism. On the basis of its ecological advantages, the county guides poor people to engage in catering service, cleaning and rural tourism, and enables them to gain stable income through work and profit sharing in the cooperatives.Poverty reduction section in Youyu Spirit Exhibition Center (picture provided by Youyu Spirit Exhibition Center)


X: 11.2778 Y: 6.3490295 Chapter: 2 Page: 57 Content: Shanxi Siwudaoling Forest ZoneSiwudaoling Forest Zone is located in the Northeast of Youyu County. It borders Niuxin Mountain in the East, Songtao Garden in the West, No.109 National Highway in the South and Youxin Highway in the North. It consists of three valleys, four ridges and one slope, and has 2 villages in Xincheng Town and 3 villages in Niuxinpu Town. There were 1,221 villagers in 546 households in the zone, including 365 registered poor villagers in 173 households in 2014. Before the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the zone was covered by sand and haunted by natural disasters. Agricultural development was slow and people lived in great difficulty. In order to survive and develop, Youyu county committee and the government organized officials and villagers to plant trees and control sand to improve its ecological environment. In particular, since the beginning of poverty reduction, the county has organized poor villagers from surrounding villages to participate in ecological conservation and management, develop ecological economy, push forward ecological system management in a coordinated manner, built contiguous forests and ecological landscapes, and significantly improved the ecological environment. In order to protect the hard-won outcomes, Youyu County established a management station in Siwudaoling and designated a number of forest rangers. The station works in coordination with stations in Xiaonan Mountain in the South, Niuxin Mountain in the East, Songtao Garden and Tuanshan Mountain in the West, and helps to form a forest management network. It not only protects the forest resources, but also creates channels for poor villagers to increase their income. Poor villagers gained stable income in the process of ecological conservation, and have all been lifted out of poverty by the end of 2017.


X: 11.132309 Y: 6.240766 Chapter: 2 Page: 58 Content: First, the forest zone establishes ecological management posts to provide stable salary income for the poor. The county taps the employment potential of forest ecological management, and integrates funds for national level public welfare forests, local public welfare forests and forest rangers, and the revenues of the green ecological conservation program and PV poverty reduction programs supported by China Longyuan Power Group to develop forest ranger teams, following the requirement that “over 60% of rangers should be eligible registered poor villagers”. The county sets up forest resource management posts based on actual needs, publicly hires registered poor villagers as rangers, enables capable poor people to participate in ecological conservation, guides poor villagers to work as ecological workers and increases their income. So far, Xincheng Town and Niuxin County in the forest zone have hired 30 poor villagers as rangers, with an annual salary of 9,600 yuan each. 15 registered poor villagers are working as rangers along the highways around the zone, with an annual salary of 7,911 yuan. At the same time, the forest zone also has 56 rangers to manage the Tianbao Program and the public welfare protection program, with an average annual salary of 6,000 yuan. So far, Xincheng Town and Niuxin County have 118 full-time rangers, including 81 registered poor people (69%). Aside from this, during the Tomb Sweeping Day and the emergency period in winter and spring, the zone also hires over 300 temporary rangers. The recruitment of public service jobs are becoming a key tool for steady poverty reduction as well as ecological conservation. Rangers are cleaning the tourist routes in the forest zone (picture provided by Xincheng Town People’s Government)


X: 11.30142 Y: 6.3444414 Chapter: 2 Page: 59 Content: Shanxi Second, the forest zone implements the farmland returning and transfer policies to increase poor people’s transfer income. In view of the small population and vast territory, the forest zone organizes farmland returning and low-quality forest transformation programs to transform all forest resources that will match the subsidy policies into farmers’ income. By the end of 2020, the zone had returned over 3,000 mu (200 hectares) of farmland, and increased farmers’ income by over 6 million yuan (2,000 yuan per mu). At the same time, the zone actively promotes the transfer of contracted land management right. Xincheng Town has transferred 762 mu (50.8 hectares) of land, and each mu can earn 50 yuan of rental each year; Ganquanzhuang Village and Niuxinpu Village in Niuxinpu County have transferred 1,500 mu (100 hectares) of land, and each mu can earn 200 yuan of rental each year.Third, the forest zone develops ecological industries to increase poor people’s business income. The forest zone attaches equal importance to the greening, diversification and wealth-generation of forests. It grasps the opportunity of pursing high-quality development in Youyu, and built one nectarine garden and one rose planting base, which employ 18 poor villagers to collect fruits, do pruning and transplant seedlings, and each worker can earn 12,000 yuan a year. The forest zone also built an economic forest development demonstration base between Ganquanzhuang Village and Niuxinpu Village, which covers 1,500 mu (100 hectares) of land. The 7 base plants of 4 categories of high-yielding fruits, including apple, plum, apple and hawthorn, can generate 4.5 million yuan of revenue annually and increase per-capita income by 12,600 yuan. At the same time, the orchards can go hand in hand with the Niuxin Mountain Scenic Zone and the rapeseed flower zone to provide ecological tourist resources, and drive local residents to develop garden economy, ecological sightseeing and ecological husbandry to increase their income. Also, the forest zone also arranges three villagers to work as cleaners in the parking lot of Niuxin Mountain Scenic Zone who can earn 6,000 yuan a year. With the implementation of ecological conservation poverty reduction policies, Siwudaoling Forest Zone achieved three leaps forward, namely getting green, getting beautiful and getting prosperous. First, the living conditions improved significantly. The forest zone has a total green area of 10,600 mu (707 hectares) and over 20 kinds of high-


X: 11.272788 Y: 6.3402004 Chapter: 2 Page: 60 Content: Second, ecological industries developed rapidly. The continuous improvement of the ecological environment has promoted rapid development of industries such as green planting, ecological husbandry, undergrowth economy and ecological sightseeing. The forest zone has built five parks and two planting bases.Third, income of the poor grew steadily. At the end of 2019, per-capita income of the poor reached 9,356 yuan. Ma Laihe, a registered poor villager in Ganquanzhuang Village of Niuxin County, used to live on farming and his family was in great poverty. In October 2016, he became the leader of the Siwudaoling Forest Zone Management Station, and could earn 1,500 yuan a month. He immediately shook off poverty in that year. Later on, he also raised 10 mutton sheep and his family could earn another 10,000 yuan each year. Niuxin County Economic Forest Development Demonstration Base (picture provided by Niuxin County Government)quality grass, which formed a multi-layer and 3-dimensional ecological barrier, creating a perfect destination to experience Youyu spirit and enjoy ecological tourism. The forest zone upgraded the living conditions, demolished 28 dilapidated houses (covering 33.8 mu) and pushed forward the “toilet upgrading campaign” that created a new image of the beautiful village.


X: 10.682328 Y: 7.6828575 Chapter: 3 Page: 62 Content: Introduction to the Field Visit Site in Ningde CityNingde Poverty Alleviation Theme Exhibition HallNingde is one of the key seedbeds of the “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era”, and also a noteworthy place where President Xi Jinping’s discourses on poverty alleviation and development are practiced. The Ningde Poverty Alleviation Theme Exhibition encompasses the main thread of Ningde’s efforts in getting rid of poverty and building a moderately prosperous society. With a wide variety of forms such as text, pictures, objects, models, audio and video, and electronic sand tables, the exhibition presents the city’s practices such as consistent blueprint drawing, targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty elimination vividly by carrying forward the spirit of eastern Fujian that “weak birds fly early, and dripping water wears away stones” under the guidance of President Xi Jinping’s discourses on poverty alleviation in the past 30 years.The exhibition hall takes up a land of about 2,500 square meters and has a total exhibition area of about 2,250 square meters. Chronically arranged, the exhibits are divided into three sections, “Crossing the Bread Line”, “Drawing the Blueprint”, and “Winning the Battle”.Interior view of poverty relief theme exhibition hall


X: 10.700799 Y: 7.7025237 Chapter: 3 Page: 63 Content: FujianThe first section “Crossing the Bread Line”  ranges from the year 1988 to 1990 and consists of three units. This section mainly reflects the previous conditions of local areas, which are summarized as being “old revolutionary areas, areas of minor ethnic groups, border areas, islands and impoverished areas”. During this period, the city focused on “getting rid of poverty” as its central task, carried forward the spirit of “dripping water that wears away stones”, established the catch-up idea of “weak birds that fly early”, met the work style requirements for “complaint handling, office work, surveys and party policy promotion at the grassroots level”, basically helped the vast majority of poor households cross the bread line, and ended the history that “the local resources can barely support the local people”.Interior view of poverty relief theme exhibition hall IIThe second section “Drawing the Blueprint” ranges from the year 1990 to 2012 and consists of 5 units. This section mainly reflects that the Ningde people, who had crossed the bread line, kept drawing blueprints for the future, actively promoted comprehensive development of agriculture, sped up the comprehensive reform for poverty alleviation, held competitions of developing well-off villages, vigorously implemented the relocation for a better life, coordinated the development


X: 10.710211 Y: 7.7146554 Chapter: 3 Page: 64 Content: There are 8 sub-sections in the third section “Winning the Battle”. The section mainly reflects how Ningde has been realizing its “three dreams” to make eastern Fujian more prosperous, and how its people have been creating more beautiful homes since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The changes were done by following the “Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era” and inheriting and carrying forward Comrade Xi Jinping’s legacy during his work in Ningde, adhering to high-quality development, implementing the “1-2-3” development strategy and figuring out a roadmap of rural revitalization with the characteristics of eastern Fujian to write a new chapter for Ningde to develop in the new era.Interior view of poverty relief theme exhibition hall IIIin mountainous and coastal areas, filled gaps in infrastructure, and worked generation after generation in the “relay race” of poverty alleviation and development.


X: 8.4080305 Y: 4.9546647 Chapter: 3 Page: 65 Content: FujianXiadang TownshipIn 2015, there were 132 registered poor households with 499 poor people, and the poverty headcount ratio was at 6.2% in Xiadang Township, Shouning County, Ningde, Fujian Province. The per capita annual net income of the registered poor households reached about 3,000 yuan, while per capita net income of rural residents was 9,400 yuan. In 1980s, per capita annual income of people living in the township was less than 200 yuan, which was the province’s only township having no access to highways, running water and electric lights, and no public income and government office facilities. Without highway, all activities of production and life rested on human shoulders and backs, and without electric lights, rural residents depended on burning bamboo strips and oil lamps in their homes. This scene was described by a verse reading “facing the wind and cold of a mountain village in the morning, and accompanied by pottery lamps at night”.During his work in Fujian, President Xi Jinping visited Shouning for nine times and Xiadang for three times, and initiated the historical journey of getting rid of poverty and getting better off in Xiadang Township. After that, Xiadang villagers embarked on a “hematopoietic” process of targeted poverty eradication and have created vivid cases in getting rid of poverty like “dripping water wears away stones.”The first measure is to solve difficulties in transportation. In the past, Xiadang villagers had “three fears”, that is, fear of getting sick, fear of transferring fertilizer, and fear of raising pigs. Since there was no access to any highway in the township, this became an immense obstacle on the way of Xiadang villagers in defeating poverty. On July 19, 1989, when President Xi Jinping first arrived at Xiadang, after having walked for more Introduction to the Field Visit Site in Shouning County


X: 8.462772 Y: 4.9161925 Chapter: 3 Page: 66 Content: The second measure is to develop tourism. In 2015, Xiadang township was officially awarded as the teaching base for party education by the Party School of the Provincial Party Committee. Taking this as an opportunity, the township established the development idea of "1145": insisting on one main line of telling the "Xiadang story", setting up one goal of " China's red tourism new landmark", constructing four bases, Current highway leading to the township S207than two hours on more than 7.5 kilometers of mountainous roads, he noted that the first three things to do were providing access to highways, water supply and electric power, and government office facilities. With 720,000 yuan raised by relevant governmental departments, the officials and people of Xiadang being united as one built the first highway in the township and had access to electric power for lighting in 1991. They followed the spirit of “weak birds fly early, and dripping water wears away stones”. With the support of the superior governments, the Shouning Xiadang to Youxi section of provincial road S207 road successfully opened to traffic in 2020. Now, Xiadang Township has already formed an easy-to-access road network.


X: 8.464009 Y: 4.9316754 Chapter: 3 Page: 67 Content: Fujiannamely the base for exhibition of the Party’s work style building, the base of education on the Party’s masses strategy, the base of poverty alleviation practices and the base of rural revitalization, designing five courses of “re-walking the road, reviewing the history, taking a Party class, holding a ceremony, and talking about lessons at night”. The learning town has been built to a high standard and at a high level to strengthen the brand of “unforgettable Xiadang and happy Puning”. As a result, forms of tourism including agritainment and homestay have emerged, attracting young people to return to their hometown. In 2020, it was rated as a national 3A scenic spot, and in 2021, it received 450,000 visitors and had a comprehensive tourism income of 52 million yuan. Over the past five years, the township has received over 1.2 million people, gaining revenue of 100 million yuan.Unforgettable Xiadang learning base one


X: 9.533975 Y: 4.0441217 Chapter: 3 Page: 68 Content: Unforgettable Xiadang learning base twoThird, Xiadang has worked to innovate the tea industry. Tea planting is the leading industry in Xiadang Township. There are 6,000 mu (400 hectares) of tea fields in the township. Xiadang Village took the lead in offering customized tea farms for poverty alleviation, which enterprises, entrepreneurs and other interested parties might subscribe at 20,000 yuan per mu under five-year tea farm subscription contracts with the village. The farmers still own the tea farms, while the subscribers exclusively own the tea harvested from the tea farm during the contract terms. This solves the problem of how to sell the tea. To reassure the subscribers about the quality of the tea they have subscribed, Xiadang Village has developed a visual reservation system and produce traceability system. Cameras are installed in tea farms and tea factories in order for the subscribers to monitor the whole process of tea farm management, tea picking and production through a mobile application. With standardized production in the village, the tea farmers in the cooperative only apply the organic fertilizer centrally purchased by the village and registered the brand as “Xia-Xiang-De-Wei-Dao (Taste from the Countryside)”. The income from tea farms has increased from more than 2,000 yuan per mu to 6,000 yuan and lifted 31 poor households out of poverty in Xiadang Village since 2017. At the same time, Xiadang Township has also developed navel orange, camellia oleifera, grapes, anoectochilus roxburghii, edible fugus and other industries with local characteristics.


X: 8.457474 Y: 4.9363866 Chapter: 3 Page: 69 Content: FujianFourth, the township works to create a livable environment. To address the problem that “the local resources can barely support the local people” in nearly half of the natural villages, Xiadang Township implemented the “Betterment Project”  by planning and building the Xiadang New District near the ancient Xiadang Village, with more than 300 mu of land and more than 200 households with more than 600 people resettled. To facilitate the life after relocation, Xiadang Township has built a health center, school and other support amenities around it. Because of the development of tea farms, navel orange and other industries and rural tourism in Xiadang Township, the relocated people have found jobs near their homes with stable sources of income, possibilities to be better off, and an increasingly strong sense of security, happiness and gain, therefore attracting new immigrants to settle down here.Tea Harvest11 In the late 1980s, Comrade Xi Jinping, then secretary of the Party Committee of Ningde Prefecture, Fujian Province, began to implement programs for relocating the Tanka people ashore and those living in huts down the mountain and solving the problems in relocation, production and employment. In 1994, Fujian Province took the lead in implementing the “Betterment Project” in China by relocating the villagers having lived in remote mountain villages or islands to places with better production and living conditions, fundamentally improving their access to education, cultural facilities, health care and employment, and thus getting rid of poverty and becoming better off.


X: 8.515313 Y: 4.896092 Chapter: 3 Page: 70 Content: Currently, all the registered poor people in Xiadang Township have been lifted out of poverty, and the three poor villages of Xiadang, Xiapingfeng and Yangxitou, cast off poverty in 2018. The per capita disposable income of farmers in the township increased to 20,055 yuan in 2021, and now the township took on a new look with comprehensive advances in public Xiadang Night View at present


X: 8.474464 Y: 4.9344106 Chapter: 3 Page: 71 Content: Fujianinfrastructure. With this, Xiadang Township received the “National Award in Battle against Poverty for Organization Innovation” in 2018. On August 4, 2019, President Xi Jinping wrote back to the villagers of the Xiadang, encouraging them to explore a path of rural revitalization with local characteristics. In 2021, Xiadang Township was awarded the title of "National Poverty Alleviation and Pioneering Model" and "National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization". As one of the five sub-venues of the CPC and World Political Parties Summit, Xiadang township become eyes of the world, because it is the birthplace of Xi Jinping’ idea on poverty alleviation and strategic development and also the place where these ideas are practiced.


X: 9.87957 Y: 2.6516955 Chapter: 3 Page: 72 Content: Chixi VillageChixi Village is an administrative village where many people of She nationality live in Panxi Town, Fuding City, Fujian Province. There are 418 households with 1,886 people, including 156 households with 806 people of the She ethnicity, among them are 32 households with 107 registered poor people. In the past, Chixi Village was an “old revolutionary area, area of minor ethnic groups, border area, and impoverished area”, and the villagers were scattered in 14 remote natural villages. They lived under bamboo huts and hardly had enough food every day. On June 24, 1984, People’s Daily published a letter from a reader titled “Poor Mountain Villages Hope Special Policies to Tackle Poverty and Get Better Life” reflecting the poverty situation in Chixi Village. The letter attracted attention from the central committee of CPC and the central government, which then launched the nationwide efforts for poverty alleviation and development. Chixi Village was therefore called “the pioneer village of poverty alleviation in China”.After more than 30 years of poverty alleviation and development, Chixi Village has seen dramatic changes from poverty, and has embarked on a path of development summarized as “getting better off with tourism, strong with agriculture, established with culture and beautiful with ecology”.The first measure is to implement poverty alleviation step by step and lay a solid foundation for development. The poverty headcount ratio exceeded 90% in Chixi Village in 1980s. The village has gone through “three decades” of development stage. The years of 1984-1993 were the stage marked by “blood transfusion”. The government, at all levels, and non-governmental actors helped the village develop agricultural production by providing production and living materials. However, the village still developed very slowly due to the harsh natural conditions. Introduction to the Field Visit Sites in Fuding City


X: 9.849186 Y: 2.6697958 Chapter: 3 Page: 73 Content: FujianThe stage from 1994 to 2003 was the time for “changing the blood”, wherein the villagers in remote natural villages with harsh conditions on the mountainside were relocated. After that, the production and living conditions of the local residents were fundamentally improved. The years from 2004 to 2014 were the “hematopoiesis” stage of promoting whole-village advancement in comprehensive development. According to the requirements of the central government for promoting village-based poverty alleviation and development, the village vigorously developed characteristic agricultural industries such as tea, forest and fruit, freshwater aquaculture and rural tourism, and the residents gradually had a well-off life.A thatched hut in a natural village called Xiashanxi, Chixi Village in 1984Present view of Chixi VillageThe second measure is to improve living conditions and cultivate potential of development. To solve the difficulties in transportation and bid their farewell to mountain trails, Chixi Village has built concrete highways and tourism highways since 1993, when its first dirt road was built. Now the village is only a 20-minute drive from a nearby