Village on its way to casting off poverty

From 2013 to the end of 2019, 116 families, or 538 residents, of Jiashan village in Zhenyuan county of Northwest China's Gansu province, were lifted out of poverty, leading the village's poverty rate to drop from 53.25 percent to 11.93 percent.

Special industries have played a role in poverty relief efforts, including planting marigolds, corn and Chinese herbs and sheep and rabbit breeding.