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China's tourism industry needs to explore new modes to drive recovery in the post-pandemic period: While the SARS virus in 2003 and the 2008-2009 global economic crisis both affected the global tourism industry to different extent, the impacts of the events were far from severe compared with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) this year, which has brought about a widespread contraction and great uncertainties. According to a report released by the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) on May 20, all of the global destinations continued to have restrictions on travel in place, and 72 percent were completely closed to international tourism.

Can the silver-age plan help to improve rural education?: The Education Department of the Shaanxi Provincial Government has announced a silver-age plan, intending to recruit 262 retired professional teachers below the age of 65 to help with school education in poverty-stricken counties in the province. The teachers must have attained a certain professional level prior to retirement. Headmasters, experienced teachers and teachers of specific grades are to be included. The volunteer educators will serve for at least one academic year, and those who meet the required standard will be encouraged to extend their contracts.

Struggling fishing community turns the corner with traditional culture and tourism: The Hezhe, an ethnic group living in Heilongjiang Province in northeast China explores new roads to prosperity.

Trilogy of the First Secretaries' Poverty Alleviation Mission: Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 2012, the CPC Central Committee has given the utmost importance to poverty alleviation work in its governance of the country. It has mobilized the whole Party and society to fight against poverty.

'Ecological poverty alleviation' in a state-level poor area: About 100 tea pickers gathered at the 280 hectares of organic tea plantation in Chisadi Village, Fugong County, Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, during the Qingming Festival in early April this year to pick the earliest mature spring tea leaves.

Livestreaming provides a new means to farmers in impoverished regions to shake off poverty: The changing consumption habits and growing role of innovation in the economy are some of the underlying trends that explain the success of livestreaming.

Social security: China's last line of defence against poverty: ?In 2019 China reached an important milestone in its battle against absolute poverty.

Narrowing education gap: stemming the flow of rural drop-outs: Education has often been referred to as a great equalizer in poverty reduction: a way to level the playing field and open doors to employment, skills and opportunities that ensure families do more than just survive.

Maonan ethnic minority group in China successfully shakes off poverty: Some Maonan people wrote a letter to President Xi Jinping, sharing the joy of poverty elimination and expressing their determination to continue to build their hometown. Xi replies to the letter, encouraging them to take this as a new starting point for a better life.

Livestreaming out of poverty: How the internet is helping China's poorest: This year’s Two Sessions bring China’s poverty alleviation efforts into focus once again. Last year 11.09 million rural people were lifted out of poverty in China and the country is on course to completely eradicate poverty by the end of this year despite the unexpected challenge of coronavirus.

Descending the ladder one last time: relocating China's 'cliff-top' villages: Key to achieving this goal have been Targeted Poverty Alleviation Methods, a set of five key approaches local governments use to ensure community's affected by poverty receive specialist, tailor-made means to remove them from poverty once and for all.

SCIO briefing on the timely achievement of poverty alleviation goals: The State Council Information Office held a press conference on Monday afternoon to brief the media on steps being taken to secure the timely achievement of China's poverty alleviation goals.

City in Inner Mongolia explores new ways to fight poverty: ?Ulanqab of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region was once an impoverished area due to its cold climate, strong wind, and barren land. Now, these natural disadvantages have been turned into advantages, attracting several well-known enterprises to gather there. All of the previously poverty-stricken county-level regions have lifted off from the list of impoverished counties.

Victory in the anti-poverty battle gives hope for other impoverished places: White puffy clouds drift past a bungalow facing a deep valley and a towering peak beyond it. Chirps of birds animate the idyllic scene without shattering its serenity.

A German devotes himself to poverty alleviation in China: At the age of 18, Michael Hermann from Dortmund, then part of the Federal Republic of Germany, decided to become an international volunteer. Since 2005, he has worked in China on poverty alleviation and disease control in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, as well as Chongqing Municipality in southwest China.

An impoverished autonomous prefecture in northwest China fights to eradicate poverty: In Guanghe, a county in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu Province in northwest China, piles of silage—what local people call the bread for cattle and sheep—are scattered in the fields. The silage is made by smashing and mixing corn and cornstalks that have been preserved through acidification and fermentation.

Moving to a better life: Night has already fallen in the town of Beishan, but the lights are still on in a nearby sewing workshop. More than 30 employees are busy working on their sewing machines. They are making protective clothing for medical personnel on the front lines of the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic. Located in northwest China's Qinghai Province, this workshop is no ordinary factory: it is part of an initiative to provide jobs for impoverished people who were relocated from some of the most disadvantaged areas of their province.

How Dongchuan in Yunnan shook off poverty: Dongchuan District in the northernmost part of Kunming City, Yunnan Province, is famous for its magnificent red soil. It is yet a deeply impoverished region due to the fragility of its ecosystems and exhaustion of resources. Nevertheless the district successfully got rid of poverty in 2019, a remarkable achievement for the local people. Incidence of poverty there dropped from 52.88 percent in 2013 to zero in 2019.

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