Photo taken on Oct. 13, 2019 shows photovoltaic power panels installed on roofs of residential houses in Pushang Village of Jincheng City, north China's Shanxi Province. (Xinhua/Cao Yang)
All 58 impoverished counties in Shanxi Province and all 53 impoverished counties in Henan Province have shaken off poverty.
TAIYUAN, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- A total of 17 new counties in northern China's Shanxi Province have been removed from China's list of impoverished counties, marking all of its 58 impoverished counties get rid of poverty, local authorities said Friday.
In 2019, 239,000 people were lifted out of poverty in Shanxi, according to the provincial poverty alleviation and development office.
Ren Dangfeng feeds goats in Guojiao Village, Lushi County, central China's Henan Province, March 27, 2019. Ren, 41, had left his hometown Guojiao Village to work elsewhere for many years. After learning about local financial poverty alleviation policies in 2018, he returned to his hometown to start a husbandry business. (Xinhua/Li Jianan)
In central China's Henan Province, another 14 counties have been removed from the list, the provincial government told a press conference Friday.
This means all 53 impoverished counties in the province have shaken off poverty, it said.
So far, more than 6.5 million rural people and 9,484 villages have bid farewell to poverty in Henan, with the poverty headcount ratio dropping to 0.41 percent in 2019 from 8.79 percent in 2013. ■
