Poverty( is a big problem around the world. But China has done a good job of dealing with it and it has found its own way to fight poverty. Instead of just giving money to poor people, it has tried to educate people and give them the tools they need to lift themselves out of poverty. Ordinary ( 普通的) people play a big role in the fight. Here are two of them.
Zhang Guimei has been helping girls pursue(追求) education since she traveled to Yunnan at the age of 17. As a teacher, Zhang was heartbroken when she saw her students quit school after finishing senior high school. They couldn' t go to college because their families couldn' t afford it. So in 2008 Zhang staffed a free school for poor girls. Since then, Zhang has been busy asking for donations to provide money for the school. She has convinced parents to send their daughters back to school. The school has sent more than I, 800 students to universities and colleges.
When Mao Xianglin started to work as the Party secretary of his village, there was only one pathway out of the village for many years. He led more than 100 villagers to build a road with their hands. It took them seven years to build an eight — kilometer road. Mao then encouraged the villagers to grow oranges. Last year, their orange yield( 产量) was nearly 40 tons. Young people have retumed to the village to sell oranges online. By the end of 2019, 269 villagers had been lifted out of poverty. The per capital income ( 人均收入) reached 12, 670 yuan, 40 times more than in the 1990s.
Over the last eight years, 98. 99 million rural people have been lifted out of poverty. The 832 counties(县) and 128, 000 villages which these people live in are no longer in poverty. China has been responsible for reducing 70 percent of poverty world — wide since the late 1970s.
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