CHANGSHA Cheap Nik Stauskas Jersey , June 15 (Xinhua) -- At 6 a.m. on Wednesday, Hu Piyu woke up and made himself a bowl of instant noodles for breakfast. As the leader of an anti-poverty work group stationed in Hangka Village in central China's Hunan Province, he had a full day ahead.
In addition to his typical routine of visiting some low-income households, he planned to check on infrastructure projects and a new farm in the village and to discuss poverty reduction policies with village cadres.
Hangka is one of the poorest villages in the area, with an annual per capita income of less than 2,000 yuan (290 U.S. dollars) and nearly 40 percent of its 1 Cheap Jahlil Okafor Jersey ,100 residents still living below the poverty line as of the end of 2014.
Five years ago on June 14, the Chinese central government targeted 14 extremely poor regions across China that would become the country's main battlefields in its war on poverty. More than 500,000 officials at almost all levels have since been sent to live in villages, fighting poverty alongside villagers.
There are 6,924 villages in Hunan alone that urgently need poverty relief assistance. A work team of three to five officials is assigned to a village, and each villager is assigned an official to help them eliminate poverty.
A VILLAGE TRANSFORMED
Before assuming his post in January 2015 Cheap Timothe Luwawu Jersey , Hu was deputy director in charge of government receptions in the city, and had no experience in poverty relief. In order to win the trust of the local people, he has visited them repeatedly to learn about their needs and wishes.
He also applied for poverty alleviation funds to improve village infrastructure. Villagers' incomes have been boosted by an agricultural cluster for cultivating pepper, kiwi fruit, yellow peaches and tobacco and raising black swine.
Thanks to the funds Hu has raised, the village now has a photovoltaic power plant Cheap Amir Johnson Jersey , new irrigation system, tap water, street lighting and Internet access, greatly improving local living standards. About 150 villagers from 35 households in the remotest parts of the village moved into new homes in the beginning of the year.
The village is not the only thing that has been transformed. Hu said he has lost weight -- dropping from 90 kg two years ago to 75 kg today -- as he has spent an average of 24 days a month working in the village.