A TALE OF TWO VILLAGES

<正>Rural deputies step up to serve the greater good Ten years ago,a group of young adults arrived in Rongzhong Village of Fujian Province in southeast China to learn from the village’s development experience.They came one month after Xi Jinping,General Secretary of the Communist Party of China(CPC)Central Committee,had visited the village and called on his fellow Chinese citizens to "work together in the pursuit of a prosperous life." At that point,     

南飞的候鸟:雷州半岛的少数民族砍蔗工（英文）

<正>In stripes and patches,the sugarcane fi elds of China’s subtropics are vast and far-reaching,the migrant workers moving from village to village,local farm to local farm,following the work,following the harvest.Where sugarcane is grown in China,they leave their footprints.In the harvest season,it is common at     

A WOMAN WHO HAS TRANSFORMED A VILLAGE

<正>Yu Liufen,a delegate to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China,has led her village out of poverty Wearing a bob hairstyle,a confident smile and a cape draped casually over a black dress,48-year-old Yu Liufen exudes maturity and composure befitting her age.A village branch secretary of the Communist Party of China(CPC)in southwest China’s Guizhou Province and a     

Way Out of Destitution

<正>The fight against extreme poverty turns innovative to bring smiles to destitute families A row of dilapidated adobe houses dot the slope of a loess hill in Zhaojiawa,a laidback village in Xinzhou,central Shanxi Province in north China.Many of     

China Urges Fair Play in Village Elections

China＇s central authorities issued a circular in Beijing on May 30, 2009, urging candidates to practice fair play in direct elections of village heads amid complaints of bribery and other dirty tricks to win votes. It was jointly issued by the General Office of the State Council and the General Office of the Communist Party of China （CPC） Central Committee.     

CRADLE OF CHANGE

正A village looks back on its transformation after pioneering targeted poverty alleviation By Yuan YuanIt is hard to find any"old"photo of Yang Chaowen's village as people living there were too poor in the past to buy a camera.By old,Yang means the days before2000.Yang is from Shibadong a village in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hunan Province,central China,where the     

PEOPLE & POINTS

<正>CHINA’S EMILY DICKINSONyu Xiuhua,a disabled rural poet,was elected vice president of the writers association of her hometown,Zhongxiang,central China’s Hubei Province,in late January owing to the popularity of her poetry on the Internet.yu,39,was born in a small village of Zhongxiang.She suffers from cerebral palsy,caused by a lack of oxygen during her delivery.Known as China’s answer to U.S.poet Emily Dickinson     

COMMITMENT TO THE COUNTRYSIDE

Officials take a hands-on approach to poverty alleviation When Xi Changlin, a former oil worker who now runs a homestay business in his home village Zhangjiagou,found the power supply insufficient for hisguests, he turned to village official Ma Jian for help.Ma, a government worker in Yan'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, is stationed in the village on a two-year term under the government's poverty alleviati on program. His title is first secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Zha ngjiagou Village Branch.     

Back to Square One

A village seated deep in the mountains of northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region was the center of a photographic whirlwind meant to foster greater intimacy between photographer and subject.     

Making the Right Choice

<正>Party congress delegate elections seek the broadest representation Instead of working and living in a modern city, Yang Ning, who graduated from college in 2010, took a bold choice to return to her home village in Rongshui County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south China.     

DEVELOPING THE NEW COUNTRYSIDE

Dazhai, a mountainous village in north China's Shanxi Province, was an example of China's rural development model under the highly centralized, planned economy in the 1960s-70s. It slid into a lackluster period in the early 1980s after the market economy began to gain ground in China. The resurgence is painstaking but remarkable amid local people's unremitting efforts to develop industry and tourism. The village is now at a moderate development level among counterparts nationwide, according to official statistics. Beijing Review reporter Lan Xinzhen spoke to village head Guo Fenglian on Dazhai's current situation and future plans.     

A Countryside Education

<正>Government introduces new measures to support struggling rural teachersIn the heart of the mountains in Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of central China’s Hubei Province lies Liufeng Village.Liufeng Primary School,where Huang Jiaju works,is located in the village,which is more than 1,100 meters above sea level.     

Moving Mountains

正A region in China races to lift nearly 3 million villagers out of poverty Living in a remote mountain village in one of China’s least developed regions in the northwest,Gao Shiquan was used to hardships.The50-year-old farmer,struggling to survive on an annual income of less than 3,000yuan($448),couldn’t imagine things could get any worse—until a landslide     

The Shenzhen Miracle

正China’s reform started in rural areas,but its reform and opening up began in Shenzhen,southern Guangdong Province.Adjacent to Hong Kong,Shenzhen was a small fishing village prior to 1978,but underwent dramatic changes thanks to the reform and opening-up policy.After the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the     

RAISING A VILLAGE

Welcome to Dayingjie, the wealthiest village in one of China's most remote and landlocked provinces. It seems to embody the Central Government's vision for a new countryside. But as China changes unprecedentedly, will the village's good fortune continue?     

PEOPLE/POINTS

<正>Benevolent Music Teacher Deng Xiaolan, a volunteer music teacher in a remote, poverty-stricken village, is in the spotlight of China’s media for her selfless deeds.Deng, 68, has traveled to Malan Village, north China’s Hebei Province, to teach children there music more than 10 times a year since 2004.     

The Happy Life of Uncle Kang

Here is a rural village by the Yellow River, which snakes all the way from China's northwest, through the cen- tral China province ofHenan of which the village is a part. At a first glance, it bears no difference from any other villages in this part of rural China - a vast expanse of land lush green with crops, rows upon rows of courtyards where fami- lies have lived for generations and, far beyond, highways and electric pylons that give a touch of modernity to the scene of traditional tranq…     

In the Shadow of Mental Illness

<正>A flawed education system and changes to families are pushing young people over the precipice of sanity Jun Cai from a village in central China’s Hunan Province was a model student.     

Giving a Helping Hand

The village of Nanyu in Baoding City,Hebei Province in north China is only two hours'drive from capital Beijing.Yet in 2015,the distance seemed to be overwhelming,especially in terms of income.The average annual income of the villagers was about 2,000 yuan($285)that year.Nearly 26 percent of the families were impoverished and more than 100 people lived below the national poverty line.In sharp contrast,the per-capita annual income for rural residents in China was 10,772 yuan($1,536)in the same year.     

A Family Builds an Oasis

FOR generations Wang Wangui＇s family has lived in Yinda Village, Jiuquan City of Gansu Province. The village is an island of growth surrounded by desert, in an area along western China＇s historic Silk Road that once linked ancient China to the West more than 1,000 years ago.