Paddy fields help ease poverty

Farmers transplant rice seedlings in a village of Xing’an town, Arun Banner, Inner Mongolia autonomous region on June 13. Recently, Arun Banner has allocated government funds to finance the project of transforming dry soil into paddy fields measuring nearly 1,000 hectares. The project has helped increase the total income of local farmers to over 15 million yuan ($2.2 billion). [Photo/hlbrdaily.com.cn]