With China less than eight months away from its deadline for ending domestic poverty, politicians are targeting rural affairs and poverty issues in their proposals for the two sessions-the annual gatherings of the National People's Congress, the top legislature, and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the top advisory body-which are set to open in Beijing next week.
According to the government work report released at the fifth session of the 14th Guiyang municipal people's congress on May 13, the last 13,564 impoverished people in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, have been lifted out of poverty.
Stacks of mushrooms cover the first floor of his stilted house in Yeli Village in the county of Leishan, Southwest China's Guizhou province. The county is known for its ethnic Miao culture, with the Miao people accounting for more than 91 percent of its population.